Good afternoon everyone. Am amazed by the warm reception my
class blog have received. It turns out
we have a lot of readers switching to our blog to read up on our experience
ranging from around the world. Truly surprised yet humbly expressing gratitude
for your support. This time round, am gonna talk about my time spent at Hyundai
Heavy Industry (HHI) yard Ulsan, Korea. The name speaks for itself, this yard
is no ordinary building gigantic floating platform as well range of ships being
fabricated and assembled here itself.
Allow me to briefly give an insight of what I have witnessed
here during my internship at sea.
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| First and foremost,
Hyundai very own crane barge will be used to lift all shell plating for
assembling as well as lifting other parts of ship |
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| As you can see here,
they have already fabricated certain parts of the ship with just assembling it
left (Observed in pic is the amidship part of a bulk carrier). Could feel all
alike a ship-birth place! |
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Extra additional
stringer plating is brought over by sea via propelling barge to the assembly
scene for convenience purpose.
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| First lift by the
gigantic crane as observed from my ship’s bow. As per plan they will lift the
upper hull first and align it in line with the bottom structure located below before
combining it |
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| All these were meant
to be seen in a discovery channel but I’m watching it live from my ship! |
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This is how it looks like when a part of the hull is
combined, an extensive welding work will follow thereafter before another wave
of combining other parts are carried out. Amazing isn’t it?
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Other parts of ships being fabricated at the same time
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To be honest, I’m
forbidden from taking pictures of the scene when at the yard due to some local
authority requirements but just couldn’t resist at sharing it for knowledge of
all readers how a ship is being built from scratch. Thank you all for taking
your time to read…
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