Repair & Conversion

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.

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.

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.

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’.