Largest drydock opens

A shipyard that has laid claim to be the largest in the world in terms of physical size began operation at Changxing Island in Dalian, a coastal city in northern China. STX (Dalian) Shipbuilding Co, a subsidiary of the STX Group in Korea, and the investor of the project, said the drydock, which is 460 m long, 135 m wide and 14.5 m deep, is the largest in the world in terms of physical area. The firm did not reveal the cost of the drydock which has the capacity to build two 320,000 DWT vessels simultaneously.