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Samsung Heavy Industries

South Korea · Founded 1974

Geoje Island's record factory — Ever Ace, the Q-Max fleet and Prelude itself.

Ships here5
Longest488.00 m
Deliveries2008–2021
Still in service5
The yard

The story so far

Samsung's Geoje yard specialises in the hardest floating objects on Earth: it built Ever Ace and MOL Triumph among the largest container ships, the entire Q-Max LNG class led by Mozah, OOCL Hong Kong — the first ship past 21,000 TEU — and Prelude FLNG, the largest floating structure ever made.

Alongside crosstown rivals Hyundai and Hanwha Ocean it forms Korea's 'big three', the trio that has dominated high-value shipbuilding — gas carriers, megamax boxships, offshore giants — for three decades.

The line-up

Samsung Heavy Industries ships

Side profiles are sized by real length overall — longer ships draw bigger. Categories are never mixed.

MOL Triumph

Ocean Network Express · In service

Length overall≈400 m
Beam58.8 m
Capacity20,170 TEU — first past 20,000
DeliveredMarch 2017
Full specification →

Prelude FLNG

Shell · In service

Length overall488 m — longest floating structure ever
Beam74 m
Displacement (fully ballasted)≈600,000 t
Steel used≈260,000 t
Full specification →

Mozah

Nakilat · In service

Length overall345 m
Beam≈54 m
Cargo capacity266,000 m³ LNG — largest ever
Draft≈12 m
Full specification →
Side by side

Every ship, ranked by length

ShipCategoryLengthBeamDeliveredStatus
Prelude FLNGFLNG488.00 m74.00 m2017In service
MOL TriumphContainer400.00 m58.80 m2017In service
Ever AceContainer399.90 m61.50 m2021In service
OOCL Hong KongContainer399.87 m58.80 m2017In service
MozahGas345.00 m54.00 m2008In service