- CEO
- Mao-Hua Yu
- Full Time Employees
- 2,979
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Trucks/Construction/Farm machinery
- Address
- No.3, Jhonggang Road Kaohsiung City KH Taiwan 81234
- IPO Date
- Dec 24, 2008
- Business
- CSBC Corporation, Taiwan (2208.TW) operates as Taiwan's largest shipbuilding company, primarily engaged in the design, construction, repair, and maintenance of merchant ships, naval vessels, official ships, and offshore engineering projects. The company offers a broad range of products and services, including bulk carriers, cement and product carriers, container ships such as 8,700 TEU vessels and 3,000 TEU containerships, reefer vessels, oil and chemical tankers, electric ferries, electric cruise ships, tug boats, coast guard ships, rescue ships, oil drilling rigs, petrochemical storage tanks, tank truck loading facilities, marine hardware such as rudders, stern frames and lashing bridges, ship coatings, anti-corrosion coatings for large steel structures, offshore wind steel structures including pin piles, transition pieces, pile grippers and ship unloaders, level luffing cranes, and machinery manufacturing; it also provides ship repair, blasting, painting, refrigeration and air conditioning repairs, piping, building construction, barge and tug operations, and offshore wind power solutions through subsidiaries like CSBC Coating Solutions Co., Ltd. and CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering Co Ltd. Headquartered in Kaohsiung with shipyards in Kaohsiung and Keelung plus a Taipei office, CSBC serves global markets across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, targeting commercial shipping companies, naval and coast guard authorities, and offshore energy operators. Founded on November 7, 1973, and formerly known as China Shipbuilding Corporation until its name change in March 2007, the company maintains a substantial order backlog including five merchant ships with two options, 14 warships and official ships, 26 petrochemical storage tanks, and major warship modifications, with deliveries scheduled through October 2031 at Kaohsiung and October 2027 at Keelung; in 2024, it completed and delivered seven vessels comprising four merchant ships and three official ships while signing orders for 12 container ships with four options in January 2025. Recent developments encompass strategic expansions in green shipping amid global environmental regulations and Middle East disruptions boosting demand, operational improvements to address project delays and cost overruns on prototypes like educational training ships and 1,000-ton coast guard vessels, board changes including the appointment of Ho, Chin-Tsang as chairman representative in October 2024 and Tsai, Kun-Tsung as president in October 2024, a long-term Guaranteed Asset Performance agreement with Wartsila for CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering in April 2024, and prior sales of four 3,000 TEU containerships to Wan Hai Lines in 2022 for $220 million.