Sungdong Holding
One life.
Three hundred forty-two ships.
1949 — 1978
He learned to join steel before he learned to build ships.
Born in 1949. A precision welder before he was an industrialist.
2003
An empty shore. No dry dock. No precedent.
He raised a shipyard on open land, against a century of convention.
2006
Finished ships, carried to the sea on rails.
The Gripper-jacks Translift System. Patented, and a world first.
2008
The sea accepts what the land has built.
Three hundred forty-two times.
2016
The method crosses oceans.
From Korea to the Gulf to the Java Sea.
2026
The rail continues.
The United Arab Emirates.
Sungdong Holding · United Arab Emirates
The first to build great ships on land.
342 vessels delivered without a dry dock. The record of Jung Hong Jun, master shipbuilder, and the next chapter he is writing in the Emirates.
The oath
The world said a great ship could only be born in a dry dock. He believed it could be built whole on land and launched into the sea. Then he proved it, three hundred and forty-two times.
How the method works
The drawings never left his desk
The record, in brief
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Vessels delivered, without a conventional dry dock
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Accumulated sales, 2004 to 2015
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Load-out of a finished 170,000-ton vessel, a world record
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Among the world's shipbuilders, within three years of the first delivery
The next chapter
The next chapter is being written in the Emirates.
A smart shipyard for the United Arab Emirates, built on the method that rewrote shipbuilding: three phases, fifteen thousand jobs, and a new maritime industry rising on the Gulf.
The Emirates chapter
A legacy this size deserves to be told properly.
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