301100 Building of ships and floating structures


This type includes the building of ships and boats, except vessels for sports or recreation, and construction of floating structures.

This type 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 type 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 type excludes:

  • manufacture of parts of vessels, other than major hull assemblies:
  • manufacture of sails (see 139203)
  • manufacture of ships' propellers (see 259900)
  • manufacture of iron or steel anchors (see 259900)
  • manufacture of marine engines (see 281100)
  • manufacture of navigational instruments (see 265100)
  • manufacture of lighting equipment for ships (see 274000)
  • manufacture of amphibious motor vehicles (see 291000)
  • manufacture of inflatable boats or rafts for recreation (see 301200)
  • specialised repair and maintenance of ships and floating structures (see 331500)
  • ship-breaking (see 383100)
  • interior installation of boats (see 433)

barge; boats, destruction; boats, ships; buoy; cargo boats; coffer-dams; drilling platforms of floating or submersible; ferryboats; fishing boats; floating devices; floating docks; floating tanks; hovercraft; hovercrafts; landing stages, floating; overhaul of ships; passenger ships; pontoons; shipbuiding, boatyard, shipyard, dockyard; tankers; tugboats

Codification rules

Priority in case of multiple activities

If production, repair and sales activities are carried out, the priority is as follows :

- if production and sale: production takes priority
- if production and repair: production takes priority
- if repair and sale: repair takes priority

Outsourced activities (outsourcing)

There are several types of outsourcing, the enterprise may outsource::
• Part of a production process, classification: production
• All of a production process
o & owner of commodities, classification: production
o & non-owner of commodities, classification: section G, M or N :

For a construction enterprise:
• Part of the construction activities, classification: construction - section F

Further information:
- Introduction to NOGA 2008