Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd, has constructed the Sakaide Shipyard (Sakaide, Kagawa Pref.) with a building dock of 350,000 DWT for past two years. The new shipyard went into operation for the first ship in April 1967. The layout of the facilities for hull construction is as shown in Fig. 1, and the characteristics of them are as follows; (1) The dimensions of the building dock are 380 m in length and 62 m in breadth. (2) Pre-erection stage shall be placed between the assembly and erection stages. The grand assemblies connected in this stage shall be loaded by two sets of goliath cranes of capacity 200 tons each. (3) The fabrication shop, assembly shop and building dock are arranged in a straight line, and the outfitting shops and wharf are located in parallel to the building dock.
