Repair & Conversion

Netherlands-based Maritime Propeller Repairs (MPR) is now DNV GL-certified to carry out in-situ welding for propeller repair, making it the only company certified to do so.

Lindenau Schiffswerft in Kiel has completed unexpected bow repairs to the British offshore dive support ship Red7 Alliance after a collision with a lock gate on the Kiel Canal, writes Tom Todd.

Trimline, a Southampton, UK, based marine interior refurbishment specialist, has announced a contract with Condor Ferries to customise its new high-speed passenger and vehicle ferry.

Nico International says that its new dry-docking and repair facility in Abu Dhabi Port Company’s Freeport carried out afloat and dry docking jobs on over 30 vessels in its first two months…

Oman Drydock Company (ODC), which claims to be the largest ship repair yard in the Middle East, has completed work on the ‘Ibra LNG’, owned by Oman Shipping Company (OSC).

Contractor MPE Interiors, of Birkenhead, UK, reports that it has been named as the preferred installer of fast-fitting modular ship accommodation in a new partnership.

Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam has been awarded a repair and maintenance contract from MSC Cruises, with respect to the 2010-built, 293m ‘MSC Magnifica’.

Big ships and engine swaps have been in the news in the German repair sector of late while research ships have made their periodic yard rounds and scrubber installations continue to keep…

Tom Todd reports that Nobiskrug Werft in Rendsburg on the Kiel Canal was completing a full engine exchange on the veteran multi-purpose German research ship Poseidon in December.

Scrubber installation work on five 17,400dwt Transfennica con-ro ships has become a lucrative new sector for German Dry Docks during the second half of this year, writes Tom Todd.

Damen’s Shipdock Amsterdam yard describes a recent repair and conversion job on two offshore supply ships a ‘retro-upgrade’ – combining a general upgrade with retrofitting of anti-roll stabilising tanks.

Arab Ship Repair Yard (ASRY) of Bahrain has recently appointed Resolute Maritime Services as its Greek agent. This has resulted in increased activity from the Greek market at ASRY including leading Greek…

Birkenhead, UK based SeaKing Electrical, which focuses on marine electrical engineering, says that it has invested in new engineering software, as used in the nuclear and military markets .

Dubai-based GAC EnvironHull says that Gothenburg is the latest port to be added to the network of bases offering using its HullWiper ROV-operated hull cleaning service.

The biggest surprise at Blohm + Voss Repair so far this year has been the decision by Scandlines not to convert its two unfinished ro-pax ferries Berlin and Copenhagen at the Hamburg…

Routine dockings in quite a few German yards of late have been complemented by complex scrubber, ballast water plant and LNG retrofits as owners move to meet new environmental regulations, reports Tom…

UK consultant Burness Corlett Three Quays (BCTQ) was responsible for design and technical management of a recent major refurbishment project on a small ferry, which the company had designed originally over 20…