Ship Repair News

Gibraltar’s Gibdock shipyard has completed a major conversion project so that the Baleària ferry Napoles can operate using LNG as fuel. The three-month project - possibly the most complex and demanding ever undertaken by the yard - consolidates Gibdock’s position as...

Thordon Bearings’ COMPAC seawater-lubricated propeller shaft bearing system has won the coveted 2019 Seatrade Award for Clean Shipping, in recognition of the technology’s capacity to completely eradicate operational oil pollution from ships’ stern tubes. The Clean...

A design change in the choice of window glass during the recent building of a luxury yacht (designed by a top sports car manufacturer) has been solved by Belzona. The window profiles, which with had already been built, were not compatible with the glass thickness....

By Alan Haig-Brown When Khun Namchai Sakunchoknamchai was seven years old he like cars. So he built himself one out of wood. Decades later, he was building those big beautiful custom tour buses that are a feature of Thai roads. When he wanted a 30 million baht machine...

By Alan Haig-Brown From the early 17th to the mid 18th century the Dutch maintained a post on the Chao Phraya River near the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya. Today little remains of the old Dutch buildings but a fine new museum has been built on the site, Baan...

Counterfeit parts and poor quality servicing have always been a major problem, and is of particular concern to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). These parts can not only have a significant detrimental effect on the running of equipment, but in some cases can...

Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR) has completed a major refit of the Stena Drilling-owned 5thgeneration, semi-submersible drilling rig Stena Don. The vessel arrived at DVR in October 2018 and departed for her new contract off the UK’s Shetland Islands in February 2019....

An Alfa Laval Smit Combustion system (FU type) is now installed at the Alfa Laval Test & Training Centre in Aalborg, Denmark. The system, which adds inert gas production to the centre’s already comprehensive range of full-scale vessel applications, will ensure that...

Work on overhauling diesel engines on one of the most advanced diving support vessels in the world, has been completed by power specialist Royston. Engineers undertook the 30,000 running hour major service on the generator engines onboard the 140m long Subsea 7 Seven...

After the most extensive upgrade in Hurtigruten’s 125 years of history, MS Finnmarken will reemerge as a brand new premium expedition cruise ship. From 2021 the fully refurbished MS Finnmarken will explore handpicked destinations along the rugged Norwegian coastline...

Guadalquivir shipyards in Spain report two new repairs for February. The first reefer-type ship arrived, a refrigerator, to the dry dock of the Seville shipyard. The "Green Magic", with Nassau flag and built in 1990, has 135.7 meters in length by 16.33 in beam. It has...

Wijnne Barends, the Netherlands’ oldest active shipping company, has chosen the Sonihull8 ultrasonic anti-fouling system to protect two of its vessels. The ships, Lady Ariette and Lady Anne Beau are both 88m long 2,544 GT general cargo ships that were built in 2016 at...

19 months after the contract was awarded, Europe’s first conversion of a dredger to dual-fuel capability combining LNG and MGO is close to completion. This is the first conversion of its kind to take place in Europe. Damen will deliver a turnkey package that included...

Power specialist Royston has completed an extensive overhaul of diesel engines on a Britannia Aggregates’ owned and operated dredger, which extracts sand and gravel from the seabed. Engineers undertook the service work onboard the 100m, 3,610 gross tonnage Britannia...

RIMS BV have received a further two certifications from DNV GL and the Indian Class Register, for the use of Remote Inspection Techniques (drones) during surveys of enclosed spaces. New regulations issued by IACS, ensure a certain quality standard to service suppliers...