Repair & Conversion

A cement carrier has left Damen Shiprepair Oranjewerf following a full maintenance programme and significant upgrade to its cement carrying capacity.

ABB has begun work to modernise and extend the life of a fleet of Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) icebreaker ships.

MAN Diesel & Turbo has signed a framework agreement for technical collaboration with the China Classification Society (CCS).

Hatch cover and roro equipment specialist Cargo Care Solutions (CCS) has opened a hydraulics workshop near its Rotterdam headquarters in response to demand by ship owners.

The biggest crane ever used on an offshore wind vessel will be installed on Van Oord’s ‘Aeolus’ as the market – and the wind turbines themselves – grow ever larger.

Gibdock, the Gibraltar-based shiprepair facility, has carried out an extensive package of work on a 12,049dwt, 160m con-ro container ship to a very tight time scale.

China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has launched CSSC Marine Service Co by opening a new logistics centre in Shanghai’s Yangshang free trade zone.

African shipyard, Elgin Brown & Hamer Namibia (EBHN), has completed a repair job on its widest and heaviest vessel yet, an oil product tanker with a collision-damaged bulbous bow.