Unified standards soon for marine equipment makers

Industry alliance looks to integrate market players, raise product quality

China will take more steps to standardize marine equipment manufacturing, improve the quality and competitiveness and encourage overseas participation, experts and officials said.

"It is an urgent task to create a number of unified standards to cover design, test trials, production, maintenance and scrapping in China's marine equipment manufacturing," said Wang Liyu, chairman of Marine Equipment Inspection and Testing, a leading marine equipment maker from Qingdao, Shandong province.