CSC Jinling

{{Short description|Chinese shipbuilding firm}}

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| name = CSC Jinling Shipyard

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| type = state-owned enterprise

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| foundation = 1952

| location = Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

| key_people = Biao Ge, Director{{cite web |url=http://bluestarline.com.au/2012/04/526/ |title=MOU CSC Jinling and |publisher=Blue Star Line |date= |accessdate=31 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711102052/http://bluestarline.com.au/2012/04/526/ |archive-date=11 July 2015 |url-status=dead }}

| website = {{Official website|http://www.sinotrans-csc.com/col/col12477/index.html}}

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CSC Jinling Shipyard is a Chinese shipbuilding firm founded in 1952, and a subsidiary of the state owned China Merchants Industry, based in Nanjing in Jiangsu Province.{{cite web|title=SINOTRANS&CSC Shipbuilding Industry Corporation|url=http://sbico.sinotrans-csc.com/col/col584/index.html|publisher=SINOTRANS&CSC SBICO|accessdate=31 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025014/http://sbico.sinotrans-csc.com/col/col584/index.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}

The yard reached preliminary agreement to build the Titanic II, a replica of the original Titanic, the plan of which is now apparently ‘almost done with production’ - although no real evidence of such production actually exists.

Nanjing Jinling Shipyard's Nanjing ({{Convert|330,000|m2|acre|abbr=on}}) and Yizheng ({{Convert|900,000|m2|acre|abbr=on}}) yards spread along {{Convert|3.25|km||abbr=on}} of shoreline{{Cite web|url=http://sbico.sinotrans-csc.com/col/col831/index.html|title=中外运长航集团船舶重工总公司 Jinling Shipyard|website=sbico.sinotrans-csc.com|access-date=2019-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730141653/http://sbico.sinotrans-csc.com/col/col831/index.html|archive-date=2018-07-30|url-status=dead}} and build cargo ships, floating docks, submarines, etc. Exports started in 1996, since when Jinling has exported about 200 vessels to over 20, or 30 countries.{{Cite web|url=http://jlshipyard.sinotrans-csc.com/|title=南京金陵船厂有限公司|website=jlshipyard.sinotrans-csc.com|access-date=2019-04-12|archive-date=2019-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412105140/http://jlshipyard.sinotrans-csc.com/|url-status=dead}} Over 900 staff are employed, including over 300 senior and medium-grade engineers. There are dry docks of 100,000 DWT and 200,000 DWT, 8 50,000 DWT slipways, 3 fitting-out piers and 9 heavy lifting cranes with capacities of 500, 300 and 150 tons. Annual production can be up to 1,900,000 DWT.

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