Hangtong Shipbuilding dates back to December 1974, as the Ship Repairing Yard of the Fourth Harbour Engineering Bureau (FHEB) under the Ministry of Communications. During its first 20 years, the yard specialised in port and waterway engineering vessels renowned in southern China, focusing on maintenance and construction of ships for FHEB.

In 1993, to meet market demands and support business growth, the yard was renamed Guangzhou Hangtong Shipbuilding and Shipping Co., Ltd. and transitioned to a publicly oriented enterprise engaged in shipbuilding and repair for clients in Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and America. It has evolved into a comprehensive enterprise covering ship design, shipbuilding, ship repair, heavy steel structure manufacturing, and installation.

Ship products include AHT, AHTS, PSV, DSV offshore support vessels, engineering vessels (floating cranes, piling boats, barges), and liquid cargo tankers (bunker vessels, production oil tankers, chemical carriers, LPG carriers).

Since 1993, Hangtong Shipbuilding has delivered over 200 vessels, with an annual business volume exceeding 1 billion RMB.

In 2013, Jiangmen Hangtong Shipbuilding was established after the successful inspection and commissioning of a new yard in Jiangmen City with a 170,000m² main yard, 25,400m² indoor hull workshops, 12,966m² outfitting workshops, coating workshops with daily handling capacity over 4,000m², 465m×60m building berth, one 400-ton gantry crane and six 40-ton portal slewing cranes capable of constructing 8 to 9 vessels simultaneously, 70m dock mooring effective length and comb-type side slipway launching or pulling from the river.

The second factory of 70,000m² includes four 80m indoor slipways and two 100m outdoor slipways for small ship construction. The third 20,000m² factory includes workshops for steel pretreatment, structural fabrication, and piping precast.

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