The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Building Berth

a structure that is located on the shore of a sea, a river, or a lake and that is equipped for shipbuilding. A building berth is a major component of a shipyard.

Building slips, which are ways that slope toward the water, are located in building berths. Keels are laid and hulls are assembled on building slips, and ships are launched from them. The distinction between a building berth and a building slip has largely disappeared; the term “building berth” has come mainly to mean a shed over a building slip.

Uncovered building berths sometimes have a horizontal building platform on which a ship is moved by means of carriages (seeSLIP). In large modern shipyards, ships are assembled in building berths that resemble dry docks.

S. IA. MAKAROV

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* Number of companies registered by the Ministry of Industry: 253 companies (including 4 state companies & 60 companies in Batam) * New building berth : 160 units * Biggest capacity of new building : 50,000 DWT * New building, annual capacity : 500,000 DWT * Graving dock, floating dock, slipway : 208 units * Biggest dock capacity : 150,000 DWT * Docking, annual capacity : 6,000,000 GT * Ship production : 5,600,000 GT in 2007; 7,250,000 GT in 2008

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For the initial phase, the company is building Berths 7 and 8 to accommodate larger ships, which will bring additional volume to the port.

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The fact that the biggest yachts in the world for many years are currently built in Germany, demonstrates that all the essential factors are present: the engineering, the size of the building berths, the infrastructure, the quality of the suppliers, and the expertise of the yard workers."

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The work has been commissioned by the Qatari New Port Project Steering Committee, with this latest project calling for building berths for small-sized and medium-sized vessels and connecting passageways in the QEZ3 section of No.

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Collectively they offer a total of 29 building berths, eight floating docks and a specialised rig-building yard.

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