02-02-16, 06:09 PM
I spent 18 months in Shanghai, Hudong-Zhonghua ship building company Standing by the construction of 4 LNG Gas carriers. I did the sea trials and gas trials for all 4 ships. Each ship I commissioned into service I can honestly say were not fit for purpose, they bordered on being dangerous. The Chinese quality control was a joke. It was down to individuals like me (commissioning cargo machinery) to sign off and accept the installed plant. I would work alongside with the Lloyds surveyor(Classification society). More often than not we would fail the plant for varying reasons until a defect was corrected. These ships were running way behind on delivery dates. The company that the ships were being built for was a joint venture between BP & Clsco(Chinese partners)because Lloyds do have high standards it was decided that the vessels would no longer go on the Lloyds Register so they ended up going on the American Bureau of Shipping register were shall we say standards are not as stringent.
I took the first ship down to Australia to load, thankfully the Australians told the company they would not load her as they deemed it unsafe.
That vessel spent another 6 months having all the defects sorted out. Thankfully they did learn from that and the remaining ships entered service , but the build quality was still atrocious.
If I lived down south of England and the Chinese were to be building a Nuclear Power station in my area I would diffo have my house on then market and GTF out of the area.
They should never be allowed to have any involvement in our nuclear sector, leave it to those who are good at it , as in the French they lead the world in that industry.
Still for all that like everyone we buy Chinese goods , not because they are top quality but because they not all bad , but they are cheap
I took the first ship down to Australia to load, thankfully the Australians told the company they would not load her as they deemed it unsafe.
That vessel spent another 6 months having all the defects sorted out. Thankfully they did learn from that and the remaining ships entered service , but the build quality was still atrocious.
If I lived down south of England and the Chinese were to be building a Nuclear Power station in my area I would diffo have my house on then market and GTF out of the area.
They should never be allowed to have any involvement in our nuclear sector, leave it to those who are good at it , as in the French they lead the world in that industry.
Still for all that like everyone we buy Chinese goods , not because they are top quality but because they not all bad , but they are cheap
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