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.