Ship Repair News

Sweden’s Dellner Brakes, Germany’s Pintsch Bubenzer GmbH and Italy’s Rima Srl have come together to form the Dellner Bubenzer Group, securing a leading position as a customer oriented, global supplier of braking products across the material handling, marine,...

In April Damen and Wilson Sons Estaleiros completed the conversion of platform supply vessel Fulmar to a shallow dive support vessel (SDSV). For this, the vessel, owned and operated by Wilson Sons UltraTug Offshore, need an upgrade from DP1 to DP2 Class notation. When...

Exploring some of the most pristine waters of the planet has never been more eco-friendly – as Hurtigruten introduces silent, electric-powered and emission-free catamarans. The world leader in exploration travel has partnered with the Norwegian startup Brim Explorer,...

AAL has successfully delivered a cargo of four rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs) to the Port of Felixstowe, as part of a development project that will see the UK’s busiest container port add an additional 18,000 teu of container storage capacity to meet growing...

Damen has established a presence in Finland for the first time. The Helsinki office has been set up to take advantage of the depth of engineering expertise that exists in the country following the group’s entry last year into building large vessels for the RoPax,...

A collaborative pilot project undertaken by WinGD and ship management company Enterprises Shipping & Trading to demonstrate the power of WinGD’s Integrated Digital Expert (WiDE) predictive maintenance technology onboard the crude oil tanker Energy Triumph has been...

Sonihull, the world’s leading ultrasonic anti-fouling system, has just been certified in compliance with 94/9/EC ATEX Approval, the regulation applied to all equipment intended for use in explosive atmospheres. With this approval, Sonihull becomes the first ultrasonic...

Stephen Jarvie has joined Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC) as a Marine Coatings Representative, responsible for sales of the MarineLINE® cargo tank coating system in parts of Europe. According to James R. DeChant, APC Vice President, Sales & Marketing, “We are very...

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....