Beijing eyeing to build more outposts in the South China Sea?
China Daily via Philippine Daily InquirerQuote:
China launches mighty new ‘island-maker’
China Daily/Asia News Network / 09:59 AM November 04, 2017
BEIJING – China launched Asia’s largest and most advanced cutter-suction dredger, which can further enhance the nation’s capability in land reclamation, on Friday.
The Tiankun was moved to waters off a shipyard at Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Qidong Marine Engineering Co in Jiangsu province. Its construction started in early 2016 and will be completed in June, according to a statement sent to China Daily by the Marine Design and Research Institute in Shanghai, the ship’s designer.
Engineers will test and fine-tune equipment already installed on the electrically powered, self-propelled vessel and continue installing other devices. Then the ship will conduct mooring and sailing tests before being commissioned to China Communications Construction Co’s Tianjin Dredging Co, it said.
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