Rolls-Royce helps DSME with quality equipment and on-time delivery

January, 2008

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd (DSME) has developed into one of the world's premier specialised shipbuilding and offshore contractors, building all types of commercial ships, offshore platforms, drilling rigs, floating oil production units, submarines, and destroyers, and delivering more than fifty ship a year. The company was established in 1973 at Okpo Bay, Geoje Island, on the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula.

DSME has a long tradition of using Rolls-Royce deck machinery, steering gear and controllable pitch propellers. In 2006, seven ships built by DSME were selected as the world’s best ships of the year. All seven were equipped with Rolls-Royce deck machinery, and the success story continues.

Despite fierce competition, Rolls-Royce leads deck machinery supply to DSME for simple but important reasons. According to Jong-Yup Kim, Manager of DSME’s Material Team: “On-time delivery is the biggest concern for us as we build more than 50 ships annually. A week or two’s delay in delivery of deck machinery causes us a significant problem. Building ships on time is our competitive strength. The reason we use Rolls-Royce deck machinery for more than 70 per cent of the ships we build is because Rolls-Royce satisfies our needs. Rolls-Royce meets the delivery time, even though demand for deck machinery is growing rapidly because of the growth of the global shipbuilding market.

Caption: Rolls-Royce deck machinery on a DSME-built vessel (photo: Cho, Man-Soo)

“We are happy to have Rolls-Royce as partner because our customers are happy with what we supply to them, on time. And this is why DSME and Rolls-Royce have maintained a good business relationship since the early 1990s.

“ A major Rolls-Royce strength is that it manufactures deck machinery products through Korea so we can have convenient warranty service from the company promptly.”

Sun-Jin Lee of DSME Machinery Outfitting Team added: “As the on-hand engineer, I can work efficiently thanks to Rolls-Royce’s products which are simple but very efficient when it comes to installation and operation. They are designed in a way that I can install and operate them without having to go through intensive manual guides.

Gye-Bong Lee, Sales & Marketing specialist at Rolls-Royce said: “Since Rolls-Royce is located in Busan, the centre of the Korean shipbuilding industry, we secure a competitive advantage compared with other competitors. We collect customers’ opinions and forward them to the R&D centre at Rolls-Royce headquarters to analyse problems and to develop new technologies. Our competitive strength is that we constantly work hard to deliver the products that satisfy customers”.



For further information and high resolution images, please contact

Arnfinn Ingjerd, Vice President, Communications - Marine
Rolls-Royce plc
E-mail: arnfinn.ingjerd@rolls-royce.com
Phone: +47 70 01 42 17
Fax: +47 70 01 40 05