Sapor Shipbuilding Industries Sdn. Bhd. (SBI) was established on the 7th of August 2003. The company obtained its manufacturing license in December 2005 and commenced its operation in Jan 2006.

The registered office is at No.19, 1st Floor, Chengal Road, 96000 Sibu, Sarawak. The factory cum site office is at Lot 539,540 & 541 Block 1, Seduan Land District Sibu, Rantau Panjang, Sarawak. The total area of the site is 6.458 hac.

The factory is located in Rantau Panjang Shipbuilding Industrial Estate, an area designated by the Sarawak government for the developing shipbuilding industry.

As at April 2007, the company had completed Phase one of its site construction project with the completion of its site office, workshop, slipway, worker quarters, canteen and various infrastructure.

The core business of the company is ship building and repairing. In terms of ship building, the factory can accommodate the construction of twenty 30 meter tugboats simultaneously. While in terms of ship repairing, the slipway can accommodate up to 10000 DWT, 400 feet long and 120 feet wide vessels.