The Mazhou Island Base is a large-scale ship repair and offshore building base invested by China Merchants Industry Holdings Co., Ltd. The total area of the base is 700,000 square meters. It has a coastline of 3,400 meters and is equipped with two dry docks with the size 400mX83mX14m and 360mX67mX14.5m and two floating docks with the capacity 70,000-ton and 30,000-ton. Now the base is one of the largest ship repair and offshore building bases in China.
There are two companies in the base: One is China Merchants Heavy Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., which is mainly engaged in the construction of offshore equipment and special engineering vessels. And the other is Yiu Lian Dockyards (Shekou) Co., Ltd., which primarily repairs and refits large ships and offshore equipment.
Founded in 1989, Yiu Lian Dockyards (Shekou) Co., Ltd. is one of the wholly-owned subsidiaries of China Merchants Industry Holdings Co., Ltd., which is a subsidiary of China Merchants Group. It specializes in the repair and modification of various ocean-going vessels and drilling platforms. Our target products include the repair and modification of various high-end vessels such as VLCC, large container ships, FPSO, FSO and LNG carriers, as well as the repair and modification of offshore oil drilling platforms.
Yiu Lian Dockyards (Shekou) Co., Ltd. adheres to the repair of high-end equipment and actively promotes the transformation and upgrading of the ship repair business. In the past three years, it has made major breakthroughs in high-end offshore engineering and high-end ship repair. In 2016, it successfully completed the modification of PFSO and achieved the breakthrough of LNG carrier repair in 2017, making it the first LNG-carrier-repair shipyard in China. In 2018, Yiu Lian successfully entered the luxury cruise repair market, furtherly expanding the market share of high-end customers and high-end products in the ship repair market. Yiu Lian’s offshore oil rig repair market share is also among the best, and Yiu Lian has won the excellence award of National Enterprise New Record and Shenzhen Enterprise New Record for the performance of the first domestic dockyard repairing a semi-submersible drilling platform. It has been in the leading position of China's individual shipyards for many years.
Since Yiu Lian’s establishment in 1989, the company has completed more than 4,000 projects of annual repair, dock repair, voyage repair, and marine damage engineering of ships and repair and modification of offshore engineering from dozens of countries and regions along with major domestic and foreign large ocean shipping companies.
Based on the management tenet of “Excellence first, Customer first, Reputation first”, relied on the strong support of China Merchants Group and Yiu Lian’s parent company China Merchants Industry Holdings Co., Ltd., Yiu Lian opens up the market, continuously improves the management level, strengthens its service awareness and enriches the enterprise equipment. Yiu Lian’s production value, economic efficiency and management level rise to a higher level every year. The reputation of good quality and perfect service system has won the company a public praise in the shipping industry and ship repair industry at home and abroad. Now Yiu Lian has become an internationally influential high-end ship and offshore repair brand.
Yiu Lian's strategic positioning: Strive to develop into a world-class offshore equipment manufacturer and a leading domestic high-end ship repair enterprise.
Yiu Lian’s parent company China Merchants Industry Holdings Co., Ltd. is a secondary subsidiary of China Merchants Group. China Merchants Industry Holdings Co., Ltd. specializes in ship repair and offshore building business. China Merchants Industry Holdings Co., Ltd. has totally four bases respectively in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Haimen and Zhoushan.