Dalian COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. (DACKS), jointly invested by China COSCO Shipping corporation limited (COSCO Shipping) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (KHI), established on 18 July 2007, with an initial investment of 2.62 billion RMB, is a second modernized large-scale shipbuilding joint venture, following the success of Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd.(NACKS).

DACKS, as a project listed in the National Long-Medium Term Development Scheme of Shipbuilding Industries, located at Dalian Lushun, covering a land area of 1.88 million square meters with a building area of 440,000 square meters, a water area of 1.66 million square meters, and a coast line of 1955 meters long; DACKS has around 2500 staff, including 300 professional technical management personnels. The shipyard has been designed with the following production facilities: two large docks, one of which is 700 meters long and is the longest dock in China, three large outfitting quays (including one to be built), one material quay, one Asia’s largest sub-assembly workshop covering a land area of 124,000 square meters, two assembly workshops, one pipe workshop, and three painting workshops (including one to be built). After the entire project completed, DACKS will finally achieve a layout of two docks and four berths.

DACKS mainly constructs 20,000 TEU containership， large size bulk carriers, VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carrier), VLOCs (Very Large Ore Carrier), large size container ships with capacity over 15,000 TEU, 6,200 PCCs (Pure Car Carrier),  LNGC (Liquefied Natural Gas Carriers) and other large-scale high-performance merchant vessels. When DACKS reaches its maximum production capacity, the annual production output will reach 3 million DWT, the annual processing of steel material will surpass 400,000 tons.

DACKS, with the goal of “Building world-class ships from world-class shipyard”, promoting quality, environment and occupation health safety management standards, introducing the most advanced shipbuilding technology, manufacturing process, and management practice from NACKS and KHI, strive to build a most competitive world-class shipyard in the shipbuilding industry.