In 1999, the company moved into its current 34,125 sq m (367,320 sq ft) facility at 9 Pandan Crescent, which enables the storage and maintenance of offshore equipment, as well as shipbuilding, ship repair and fabrication works.
Founded in 1968 as the Kim Heng (SGX:5G2
) Tugboat Co by Tan Eng Hai, father of current executive chairman and CEO Thomas Tan, Kim Heng began as a towage and marine transportation service within Singapore and its surrounding waters.
In the 1980s, Kim Heng embarked on a series of expansion plans, first providing repair and maintenance services to tugs and barges in the marine oil and gas industry before extending its marine transportation to the chartering and towage of vessels and rigs to offshore platforms throughout Southeast Asia.
