Started in 1975 as the first overseas venture of the Singapore-based Keppel Group, Keppel Batangas Shipyard (KBS) offers extensive experience and technical expertise in shiprepair and conversion, shipbuilding and offshore structure fabrication work. Our shipyard is located at the Keppel Philippine Marine – Special Economic Zone in Bauan, Batangas in Southwest Luzon, Philippines.
Shiprepair and conversion
We have undertaken extensive repair works on a wide range of vessels including bulk and container carriers, multi-purpose barges, dredgers, offshore support vessels, tugs, passenger ferries, pleasure yachts, ocean research vessels, military and patrol crafts, fishing vessels, oil tankers and LPG tankers. Vessels coming in for various repair works are accommodated in the yard’s 50,000 dwt capacity handymax graving dock or the shiplift system in conjunction with seven dry berths capable of docking vessels up to 20,000 dwt.
Major conversion projects completed by KBS are the transformation of an oil tanker into an asphalt carrier and a bulk supply vessels into a double hull tanker, the conversion of a general cargo vessel into a container ship, a dredger into a container vessel and the jumboisation of a landing craft.
Shipbuilding
With its competitive pricing and product quality, our yard has an excellent track record of more than 100 newbuildings ranging from offshore oil rig sections, tankers, barges tugs and landing crafts to asphalt carriers all classed to the standards of international classification societies.
Offshore structure fabrication
Our team is committed to deliver on or client’s stringent requirements in safety and quality. Good teamwork with our customers and stakeholders has ensured completion and safe delivery of the lower hull structures of several ultra-deepwater semisubmersible oil rigs.
Industrial structures
Significant industrial structures fabricated by KBS include a mechanical shiplift platform with 2,040 ton lifting capacity and two units of 40-tonne capacity Rubber Tyred Gantry transtainers.