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Pukyong National University starts to build 3,990 tons new training ship, 'the largest among fisheries universities'
Held the ceremony of starting construction of the 14th training ship 'Baek-kyong'

△ Image of the new training ship 'Baek-kyong'.

Pukyong National University has begun to build a new 3,990 tons training ship, the largest among the fisheries universities.

The Pukyong National University's College of Fisheries Science (Dean, Kim Hyung-seok) held a ceremony of starting construction of the training ship, Baek-kyong at Dadae Shipyard of Daesun shipbuilding & Engineering Co.,Ltd.

Baek-kyong, the 14th training ship of Pukyong National University, will be built with a total budget of 53.2 billion won to be completed in December next year.

The name of the new training ship, Baek-kyong, was decided by a public contest under the supervision of the Pukyong National University Training Ship Building Committee. Baek-kyong is also the name of the fourth training ship of Pukyong National University, which first pioneered Korean ocean fishing.

At that time, Baek-kyong was put into the North Pacific Ocean Fishery Research Project by the Busan Regional Office of Oceans and Fisheries in 1966, and conducted a test operation in the North Pacific for three months and proved the possibility of returning to the port and the North Sea. Since then, the North Pacific fishing grounds have been spotlighted as the largest fishing grounds for ocean trawl fishery.

The newly built ship, Baek-kyong has a total tonnage of 3,990 tons, 97 meters long, 15.4 meters wide and a maximum speed of 16 knots. The boarding size is 160 persons, which is the largest among the training ships of fisheries universities. Equipped with a ship automatic position control system (DPS), it has advanced functions such as horizontal movement and position maintenance.

Baek-kyong, which replaces the existing training ship Gaya (1,737 tons), has drastically increased the number of student cabins to 30, more than Gaya (18), the cabin assignment was reduced from six to four, and the length of the bed increased as the ceiling was raised for a comfortable cabin environment.

When the new training ship is completed, Pukyong students will use the new ship with ship Nara (1,494 tons) with two ships to engage in offshore, ocean, and sea research.

Professor Lee Jong-geun, head of the Pukyong National University's Ship Training and Operation Center, said, “We expect to open new horizons for boarding practice following the 63 years of training experience as we navigate the five oceans on the new training ship Baek-kyong. <Pukyong Today>


△ The ceremony of staring construction of the training ship, Baek-kyong at Dadae Shipyard of Daesun shipbuilding & Engineering Co.,Ltd.