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Hyundai Heavy Industry – Ulsan, South Korea

Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is one of the biggest ship construction companies in the world. Its ship manufacturing facility in Ulsan, a South Korean city located on the south-eastern tip of the Korean Peninsula, is the largest shipyard in the world.
The shipyard extends across two and a half miles along the coast of Mipo Bay in Ulsan and covers an area of 1,780 acres. Due to its strategic location, the shipyard can be easily accessed from and to the open sea.

Workshops and facilities within the shipyard are put up in such a way that the maximum efficiency of shipyard operations can be maintained. Out of the total area of 1,780 acres of the shipyard, the workshops cover approximately 395 acres.
Ulsan shipyard has nine large-scale dry docks with six Goliath cranes.

Dry Dock 1, is used for constructing LNG carriers.
Dry Dock 2 is 12.7m deep and measures 500m in length and 80m in breadth. It is equipped with two jib cranes.
Dry Dock 3,is the largest dock of the Ulsan shipyard. It is capable of undertaking simultaneous construction of a variety of ships and is provided with two Goliath cranes. Vessels of up to one million DWT in capacity can be constructed on this site.
Dry docks 4 and 5 are comparatively smaller in size and can be used to construct ships of up to 150,000 DWT and 70,000 DWT respectively.

Dry docks 6 and 7 are specially equipped for the construction of naval ships and special-purpose vessels.
Dry docks 8 and 9 were completed in 1996 and are currently allocated for building VLCCs.

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Port of Miami,USA

Port Miami,is a seaport located in Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida, United States.
The port is located on Dodge Island, which is the combination of three historic islands (Dodge, Lummus and Sam's Islands) that have since been combined into one.
The Port of Miami is recognized, and has been for many years, as the "Cruise Capital of the World" and "Cargo Gateway of the Americas".

It has retained its status as the number one cruise/passenger port in the world for well over two decades accommodating the largest cruise ships in the world and the operations of such major cruise lines as Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line.

As the "Cargo Gateway of the Americas", the port primarily handles containerized cargo with small amounts of breakbulk, vehicles and industrial equipment.

It is the largest container port in the state of Florida and ninth in the United States. As a world-class port, the Port of Miami is among an elite group of ports in the world which cater to both cruise ships and containerized cargo.

Among North American ports, it ranks second only to the Port of South Louisiana in New Orleans in terms of cargo tonnage imported/exported from Latin America.
The port is on 518 acres and has 7 passenger terminals.
China is the port's number one import country, and Honduras is the number one export country.
Miami has the world's largest amount of cruise line headquarters, home to: Carnival Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruises, Costa Cruises, Crystal Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises, Royal Caribbean International, and Windjammer Barefoot Cruises.

Statistics
Vessel arrivals     2,489
Annual cargo tonnage     7.42 million
Passenger traffic     4.33 million
Annual revenue    $94.70 million