Building of ships and floating structures

This class includes the building of ships, except vessels for sports or recreation, and the construction of floating structures:

This class includes:
- building of commercial vessels: 
  • passenger vessels, ferry boats, cargo ships, tankers, tugs etc.
- building of warships
- building of fishing boats and fish-processing factory vessels

This class also includes:
- building of hovercraft (except recreation-type hovercraft)
- construction of drilling platforms, floating or submersible
- construction of floating structures:
  • floating docks, pontoons, coffer-dams, floating landing stages, buoys, floating tanks, barges, lighters, floating cranes, non-recreational inflatable rafts etc.
- manufacture of sections for ships and floating structures

This class excludes:
- manufacture of parts of vessels, other than major hull assemblies:
  • manufacture of sails, see 13.92
  • manufacture of ships' propellers, see 25.99
  • manufacture of iron or steel anchors, see 25.99
  • manufacture of marine engines, see 28.11
- manufacture of navigational instruments, see 26.51
- manufacture of lighting equipment for ships, see 27.40
- manufacture of amphibious motor vehicles, see 29.10
- manufacture of inflatable boats or rafts for recreation, see 30.12
- specialised repair and maintenance of ships and floating structures, see 33.15
- ship-breaking, see 38.31
- interior installation of boats, see 43.3