THAILANDSICThailand Standard Industrial Classification

TSIC Activity

30110

Building of ships and floating structures

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Definition

Building of large ships, except for sports and recreational ships, and construction of floating structures; building of cargo ships, passenger ships, ferries, cargo ships, oil tankers, tugboats, etc.; building of warships, building of fishing boats and vessels used for special purposes (factory ships); also includes the building of ships with air cushions (hovercraft) (except); construction of floating or submersible drilling platforms; construction of floating structures such as floating docks, buoys, watertight barriers, boarding and disembarking ladders, buoys, floating tanks, transport vessels, floating cranes, non-recreational inflatable rafts, and the manufacture of components of ships and floating structures.

Excluded from this code

  • Manufacture of parts of ships other than the principal parts of the hull; manufacture of sails, see subclass 1392; manufacture of propellers, see subclass 2599.
  • Manufacture of iron or steel anchors, see subclass 2599.
  • Manufacture of marine engines, see subclass 2811.
  • Manufacture of pilot equipment, see subclass 2651.
  • Manufacture of lighting equipment for ships, see subclass 2740.
  • Manufacture of amphibious vehicles, see subgroup 2910.
  • Building of small boats or inflatable rafts for recreation, see subgroup 3012.
  • Repair and maintenance of ships and floating structures by specialists, see subgroup 3315.
  • Ship dismantling, see subgroup 3830
  • Interior installations for small boats, see subgroup 4330.

Foreign ownership

Not on the Foreign Business Act restricted lists.

The Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 (1999) restricts majority foreign ownership only for the activities named in its three annexed Lists. This activity is not among the mappings we hold, so a foreign investor can generally hold up to 100% of the equity, subject to any sector-specific licence and to minimum-capital rules (typically THB 2 million per restricted business, or THB 3 million where a Foreign Business Licence applies).

If an activity is restricted, the routes to foreign majority

  • BOI promotion — the Board of Investment can grant up to 100% foreign ownership for promoted activities, with tax and non-tax incentives.
  • Foreign Business Licence — permission from the Ministry of Commerce to operate a List 2 or List 3 activity as a foreign-majority company.
  • US Treaty of Amity — US nationals may hold majority ownership in most activities, treated as Thai nationals for FBA purposes.

This is general guidance, not legal advice, and mappings are auto-derived. The schedules of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 are the authority; verify against the Act, or ask us to check your specific activity. See the full foreign ownership reference.

See the full foreign ownership reference for all three FBA lists.

Companies registered since 2022

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New DBD registrations under this activity since 2022, the period the registry snapshot covers, not the full historical register.

48
Registered
since 2022
46
Still active
2
Dissolved
฿1.5M
Median capital
of active

New registrations per year

2022peak 18 in 20242026

Largest active companies by registered capital

Source: Department of Business Development (DBD) new-registration records, 2022 to present. Counts cover companies first registered in that window, reflect the latest snapshot load, and may lag the live register.

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