Repair & Conversion

Hydrex has developed a new method enabling permanent repairs of rudders without drydocking the ship.

Jurong Shipyard in Singapore, a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, has recently been busy.

Despite the global financial crisis, Estaleiros Navais de Viana do Castelo (ENVC) in Portugal had, in terms of ship repair results, its second best year ever in 2009.

Bahrain’s ASRY has signed a ‘heads of agreement’ with the UK’s A&P Group to become the repair yard of choice in the Arabian Gulf for two clusters of Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA)…

During 2009, Fincantieri of Italy carried out five repair jobs on cruise vessels and two conversions with most of work carried out at the company’s Palermo shipyard which concentrates on ship repairs…

The sale of Blohm + Voss to the Abu Dhabi MAR Group is likely to be a done deal by the time this issue of The Motorship appears and the historic transfer…

The historic World War 2 US battleship Missouri has recently undergone a three-month $18 million refurbishment in dry dock at Pearl Harbour. Nick-named the Mighty Mo, the 273m long battleship, with a…

Polar expedition vessel Plancius owned by Oceanwide Expeditions in the Netherlands was recently converted and refurbished.

Aberdeen-based ship repair and maintenance specialist, Dales Marine Services, has expanded its operations on Scotland’s east coast with the lease of a dry dock at the Port of Leith and a workshop…

Far eastern yards still have plenty of newbuilding work but once the current order backlog is cleared they will be in the same position as the once-great European yards. Tom Todd looks…

Cammell Laird has been awarded a major cable layer ship lengthening contract by Nexans.

Keppel’s Brazilian yard to upgrade third Noble drillship for $152 million