Repair & Conversion

Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries’ ship repair and conversion order book saw eight vessel dockings between December 2010 and early March 2011.

Commenting on the shiprepair market as a whole, Joe Corvelli, CEO of Gibdock in Gibraltar, states that it has been fickle over the last year and the situation will remain the same…

Norway’s Solstad Offshore has returned to Gibdock for the conversion and drydocking of the 84m long, 4,500dwt PSV ‘Normand Vester’.

Jurong Shipyard in Singapore has secured a contract worth about $16 million from Golar LNG Energy to convert the LNG Khannur to a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) to be renamed…

FPSO PSVM, one of the world’s largest floating production storage and offloading vessels successfully converted by Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard for contractor MODEC, was recently delivered to BP Exploration (Angola) Limited…

Drydocks World - Dubai is carrying out its first floating storage re-gasification unit (FSRU) conversion job, known as the FSRU Livorno project.

German repair facility Bremerhavener Dock (Bredo) is using a relatively slack period to save costs and complete a novel repair-related project in a deal which appears to have done everyone some good.

Middle East ship repair is set for a major shake-up, with sweeping management changes at Drydocks World Dubai (DWD) and new repair docks coming on stream which will raise regional capacity by…

UK company Mac’Ants Group has announced a new system for stripping coatings from ships and other large structures which is claimed to be both effective and to reduce waste material for disposal…

Container and other specialist merchant ships have dominated what has been a busy year so far for versatile Blohm + Voss Repair.

Navantia Shiprepair in Spain undertook a total of 30 LNG projects in 2010, with 28 LNG at the Fene-Ferrol yard and two further LNG projects at the Cadiz yard.

Dales Marine Services’ expansion of its dry docking capability on Scotland’s east coast last year is delivering results with the value of contracts generated and dry dock usage both at record levels.

The first week of the New Year saw Bahrain’s Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Co (ASRY) break all records for the number of vessels docked simultaneously in its No.1 Dock.

RFA ‘Cardigan Bay’ returned to A&P’s Falmouth shipyard for maintenance in January after three years in the Gulf supporting coalition operations and the Iraqi Navy.

Future Pipe Industries Group (FPI) in the Netherlands, a major player in the fibreglass pipe industry, has completed the replacement of 1,200m of corroded steel pipe with glass fibre reinforced epoxy pipe…

Cruise ships have been to the fore at the German repair yards during the latter part of 2010, writes Tom Todd.

The British Antarctic Survey needed a coating that would protect their ice strengthened research vessel ‘Ernest Shackleton’ during expeditions to the Antarctic region in which it is subjected to extreme mechanical forces.

Gibraltar’s Gibdock shipyard has successfully completed a challenging maintenance and upgrade programme on the 6,430bhp DP2 class ROV/subsea service and platform support vessel, ‘Toisa Vigilant’.