Polish technology for Vietnam

Vietnamese designers are attending a training course held by Polish experts in advanced shipbuilding technology. The course is held by the Vietnam Ship Buiding Industry Corporation (Vinashin) with assistance from Poland?s Ship Design and Research Center (CTO. As part of the three-month course, local trainees will join Polish experts in designing a 104,000 dwt ship to be built in Vietnam.

Vinashin has set itself a target of being capable of designing 60,000 dwt ships by 2008. It recently won contracts to build seven 53,000-ton ships for the UK, and five 6,500-ton ships for the Republic of Korea. Poland has also supplied important equipment and shipbuilding technology to Vietnam, such as software for designing a 1,016TEU containership.