DSIC Delivers the 300k DWT VLCC “Rui Sheng”

On August 6, 2019, the 300k DWT VLCC “Rui Sheng”, constructed for Landbridge Group by DSIC, was delivered successfully. Four representatives from DSIC, Landbridge Group, China Shipbuilding Trading and Leasing Company, and China Shipbuilding Trading Company (CSTC)  signed the delivery certificate. Landbridge Group Chairman & CEO Ye Cheng, and DSIC leaders Yang Zhizhong. Deng Changlian and Zhang Yuhuan attended the delivery ceremony. Honored guest Ms. Gu Zhihong named the ship as “Rui Sheng”. 

Specially designed for Landbridge Group, independently developed by DSIC, the ship “Rui Sheng” is a new generation of brand ship type with strong market competition and an energy-saving and environment-friendly VLCC product. It also belongs to the unrestricted service ship type with a navigation radius of more than 25k nautical miles. The ship has a total length of about 332.95 meters, a molded breadth of 60 meters and a maximum deadweight capacity of 308k DWT. When the navigational draft is 20.5 meters, it can normally lade 2 million barrels of crude oil through the Straits of Malacca. Besides, the ship has a significant characteristic of energy saving. Combined the excellent molded hull line, the more energy-saving G type main engine, new propellers with large diameter and high performance ,and energy-efficient combination devices, located before and after propellers, with proprietary intellectual property rights, the ship has an obvious comprehensive energy-saving effect. Through actual verification, its energy-saving effect is better than the technical indexes of design requirement that saves much operating costs for ship owners.