Leading shipyards & ship repairers in Singapore

The companies

1. ASL Marine

   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.

   • Shipbuilding

2. Beng Kuang Marine

   An SGX-listed offshore-and-marine services group on two divisions: Infrastructure Engineering — supply of pedestal cranes and deck equipment for offshore operations, with growing shipbuilding and deck-equipment work — and a long-established Corrosion Prevention and asset-integrity business (surface preparation and protective coatings) that operates as a resident contractor inside the major Singapore and Batam yards, serving the Seatrium, ST Engineering and PaxOcean groups. Focused on the FPSO/FSO market.

   • Ship repair

3. Dyna-Mac Holdings

   Singapore's leading independent topside-module fabricator and a multi-disciplinary EPC/EPFC contractor for FPSO and FLNG topside modules and integration, plus offshore facilities across hydrocarbon and petrochemical markets. It runs two Gul Road yards with combined land area over 140,000 m2, expanded via the Exterran Offshore yard to push waterfront past 680 m and add split-module construction, with growing hydrogen and ammonia piping work. SGX-listed.

   • Offshore fabrication

4. Goltens Singapore

   The Singapore arm of the global Goltens group, focused on in-situ (on-board) machining, marine engine services and green-technology retrofit. It runs turnkey scrubber (EGCS) and ballast-water-treatment (BWTS) retrofit projects, with CNC in-situ machining of crankshafts, bedplates and large engine components to around 10 tonnes, line boring, laser alignment, metal stitching, white-metal bearing re-metalling, and sterntube and shaft-alignment work to class. Class approvals from DNV, LR, BV, ABS and ClassNK.

   • Ship repair
   • Marine classification approval

5. Jobson Asia

   A Singapore ship-repair, maintenance and riding-repair contractor specialising in two- and four-stroke diesel engines, deck and engine machinery, hydraulics, steel and piping, HVAC and refrigeration and electrical work, with OEM-parts logistics and warehousing. ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified — an afloat and riding-squad repair house serving ships alongside and at anchorage.

   • Ship repair
   • ISO 9001
   • ISO 14001

6. Kim Heng Limited

   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.

   • Shipbuilding

7. Kwong Soon Engineering

   An established Tuas ship-repair and marine engineering firm offering in-port and anchorage repair, deck-machinery repair, structural steel and marine and offshore fabrication, and vessel rig-out.

   • Marine engineering

8. Lita Ocean

   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.

   • Shipbuilding

9. Marco Polo Marine

   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.

   • Shipbuilding

10. McPEC Marine & Offshore Engineering

    An EPC and fabrication specialist in modular steel structures for oil, gas, power and marine, with standout capability in large electrical power buildings (E-Houses), pre-fabricated substations, power-generation and utility modules and blast- and fireproof structures. Its yard offers around 30,000 m2 open area, 210 m sea frontage and load-out of modules up to about 2,000 tonnes; it delivered the 1,560-tonne Kraken E-House for a North Sea FPSO.

    • Offshore fabrication

11. Mencast Holdings

    An SGX-listed offshore-and-marine group. Its Offshore & Engineering arm fabricates and maintains structures — skids, filtration systems, pressure vessels and storage tanks — with rope-access services; its Marine arm is a long-established sterngear, propeller and CPP-blade reconditioning and bronze-casting specialist, covering propeller-shaft work and dynamic balancing in-house and on-site at shipyards, anchorages and onboard; and an Energy Services arm handles tank de-sludging and hydro-cleaning.

    • Ship repair

12. PaxOcean

    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.

    • Shipbuilding

13. Penguin International

    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.

    • Shipbuilding

14. Seatrium Limited

    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.

    • Shipbuilding

15. ST Engineering Marine

    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.

    • Shipbuilding

16. Strategic Marine

    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.

    • Shipbuilding