Shipbuilding in Singapore

Singapore's dominant marine and offshore group, formed from the merger of Keppel Offshore & Marine and Sembcorp Marine, operating the integrated Tuas mega-yard and legacy yards. It builds and integrates FPSO, FLNG and FPU topsides, jackets and offshore rigs, and a renewables book of wind-turbine installation vessels, floating wind and HVDC substations. Its graving docks run ship repair, drydocking and conversion at scale, with main-engine and machinery overhaul, propeller, tailshaft, rudder and sterntube work, and electrical, cabling and automation integration carried in-house.

The marine arm of ST Engineering, one of the region's largest shipbuilders and ship-repair and conversion houses, operating the Benoi and Tuas/Jurong yards with in-house design. It builds naval vessels — patrol, littoral-mission and landing craft and frigate-class combatants — and commercial RoRo, tankers and ferries, and provides repair, refit, modernisation and conversion across both fleets. Engine-room and machinery work, propulsion, sterngear and steering-gear, deck-equipment fit-out and shipboard combat, navigation and platform-management electronics are carried in-house.

The Kuok Group's integrated shipbuilding and offshore-engineering arm, with 600-plus vessels built across a five-yard network. Newbuild is concentrated at Nanindah, Batam (15 building berths) and Zhoushan, China, while its Singapore facility at Jalan Samulun (about 172,600 sqm) runs two graving docks and a 16,000-tonne floating dock for docking, repair and Suezmax-size conversion. Recently contracted to build an offshore construction vessel for DEME.

An SGX-listed marine group headquartered at Pandan Road, Singapore, with its primary construction yard in Batam, Indonesia. It builds specialised and niche vessels — dredgers, tugs (including terminal and escort tugs), barges and tankers — and the proprietary Eco-Ark floating fish farm, with the Singapore yard providing engineering, procurement and logistics support to the Batam build line.

A Singapore newbuild yard at Benoi Road building both aluminium and steel craft: offshore-wind crew-transfer and service vessels, offshore oil-and-gas support vessels, high-speed patrol and defence craft, ferries and general workboats. It is actively delivering to the offshore-wind market, having handed the first of six SupaSWATH wind-farm vessels to Mainprize Offshore with further orders. A genuine Singapore-based newbuild yard.

A publicly-listed Singapore designer-builder describing itself as the world's largest builder of IMO-registered aluminium commercial vessels. It designs and builds high-speed aluminium crew boats, security and patrol vessels, ferries and wind-farm craft under its proprietary Flex line, including pure-electric 200-passenger ferries and a full-hybrid crew boat, at Penguin Shipyard International (Tuas Road) and PT Kim Seah Shipyard, Batam.

An SGX-listed integrated marine-logistics group spanning shipyard, offshore energy and marine transportation, with newbuild and steel fabrication executed at its PT Marcopolo Shipyard in Batam and commercial, design and project management run from Singapore. It builds tugs, barges and offshore support vessels and has moved decisively into offshore wind — a multi-year CSOV framework with Siemens Gamesa (two CSOVs for Taiwan), a next-generation battery-hybrid CSOV Plus, and a high-spec research vessel.

A long-established Singapore shipping-and-shipyard group at Pioneer Sector 1, running a 60-plus-vessel charter fleet alongside an in-house yard for shipbuilding, repair, fabrication and marine engineering. Its newbuild portfolio spans crew and cargo boats, pilotage vessels, workboats, patrol craft and passenger ferries, with recent projects including a fully-electric cargo vessel and dual-fuel LNG-diesel hybrid survey vessels. A genuine Singapore-based newbuild yard.

An SGX-listed offshore-and-marine services contractor with two Singapore yards (Pandan Crescent and Penjuru Road, about 205 m combined waterfront). It provides EPCI support, marine construction and heavy steel fabrication, rig repair and drilling support, afloat and drydock ship repair, retrofitting and conversion, and offshore chartering — and self-builds locally-flagged crew-transfer vessels for offshore wind, including horizontal directional drilling for subsea-cable installation.