I spent 6 months at Daewoo Shipyard in Okpo, South Korea while they were building an offshore oil platform for Chevron. They had some innovative methods, watching them build large tankers, car ferry, container ships etc. very fast. They would build in sections, bow here, middle sections there, stern over there then bring sections together and weld them up. Each section had all major components installed, piping, conduits, compartments, the stern had engines mounted, rudder, prop shaft and props etc. all built in different parts of the yard then brought together and assembled. They were masters at moving huge heavy parts of ships around, and very fast compared to normal ship building. On our platform they would start with the deck upside down, install all the overhead piping and fittings so they didn't have to weld or paint overhead then take about 6 mobile cranes pick up that deck, flip it over and stack it on the lower deck. Very impressive operation, if you want a lot of ships fast that is the way to go.
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