The Chinese private shipbuilder Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group's Zhejiang yard has named its first high-end offshore support vessels, being built for the French Bourbon group. Described by the yard as China's "first fabricated model of OSV", the GPA696 ship was named Ungundja, and a sea trials event was held for another OSV, to the SX130 design. Sinopacific says that the successful production of its global first fabricated high-end OSVs such as the GPA696 and the SX130 by the Zhejiang Shipyard marks its entry into the ranks of manufacturers of top-grade OSVs. The group now claims the technical capability to build deep-water OSVs. The new ships were built and equipped to current European and North American standards, the GPA696 being designed by GPA of the USA, with an all-electric propulsion system and DP3 capabilities. The SX130 was designed by Ulstein of
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