Strategic Excels in Auscham Awards
22 November 2007
Australian-based shipbuilder, Strategic Marine, has been awarded the Australian Chamber of Commerce Vietnam 2007 Business Excellence Award.
It is the first time that the company has won the award which is sponsored by the ANZ Banking Group. The award is one of several designed to highlight manufacturing quality, innovation, community service and importing success in Vietnam.
The award was presented at a gala function at the Sheraton Hotel Hanoi in recognition of the company’s success in the developing its new 10,000sqm shipbuilding yard in Dong Xuyen Industrial Zone, Ba-Ria Vung Tao in southern Vietnam.
Strategic Marine beat off a strong field of contenders including the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s International University Vietnam and Viet Lifestyle JSC.
Accepting the award, Strategic Marine’s Vietnam managing director, Mark Schiller said that the company was honoured to receive the award and that it would not have been possible without a global team of excellent people.
“This recognition is symbolic of the organisation’s growth and recent successes in its global shipbuilding strategy. The move to extend our shipbuilding capacity to include facilities in Singapore and Vietnam has proven to be an immediate success.” he said.
Mr Schiller said the new shipyard enabled the company to competitively manufacture a range of high quality ships for a breadth of international markets.
Strategic Marine chairman, Mark Newbold, said that the company had received excellent support from the Government of Vietnam and its employees, both having played a major part in the successful establishment of our Ba-Ria Vung Tao shipyard,” he said.
He cited the awarding of a second contract to build a 143m steel hulled dive support vessel for Marfield Ltd Inc as an example of the benefits of having a yard located in Vietnam.
The yard would also be the site for construction of an AUS$62 million floating dock for the State Government of Western Australia.
