Chinese shipbuilding industry

delft

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Could be used to salvage or lift damaged warships

But at 90,000 tons that's a giant!!!
Occasionally warships, damaged ones or small new ones, are carried that way. Recently a couple of Vietnamese warships were taken from the Baltic to Vietnam by such a ship ( was it Dutch ? ).
 

ladioussupp

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Ministry of industry and information technology approved "critical technologies of multi-functional large hospital ship" study project proposed by 701 institute. This R&D project would be run from 2015 to 2017. Based on ship-building engineering experiences and according to market demands of hospital ship, this project studies international laws and regulations as well as technical standard specifications in order to selecting an appropriate ship types and suitable equipment, to comprehend key technologies of shipbuilding, and develop a multi-functional hospital ship weighted around 30,000 tons and equipped with 500 beds...

On April 2nd, 2015, the kickoff meeting of this R&D project was hosted by Tianjin Xingang Shipbuilding heavy industry company.

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Blitzo

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Is there any announcement whatsoever that this is a PLAN MLP?

It does not look right to me...does not look like it has the facilities for LCACs to dock.

In fact, from this angle it looks more like a heavy lift vessel, which uses a lot of the same principles as an MLP, but does it so that they can transport damaged vessels, or other vessels that they would rather not sail long distances.

I will not believe this is an MLP until I see different shots of the vessel to confirm its arrangement, and/or hear an announcement from the Chinese to that effect.

According to hmmvw over on CDF apparently this is indeed a sino-MLP.
There are some links here and three pics from the shipyard (HP Wenchong) on some some internal work on the supposed ship, given project designation H1183... it confirms that the ship is indeed for navy, but no specs I think.
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I'm not sure how big it is or what it's meant to carry, but I think it's pretty obvious that the ship as we see it is not yet complete.
USNS Montford Point when it began with lacked its LCAC docks as well and from what I can see they might even be removable?

I'm sure picture updates in the next few months will be indicative...

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