Ship Repair News

Wärtsilä has signed a five-year maintenance agreement with Estonia based AS Tallink Grupp for their new RoPax ferry M/S Megastar on the Tallinn - Helsinki route across the Gulf of Finland. Megastar starts operation on 29 January 2017. The ferry is powered by Wärtsilä...

The world’s largest jack-up vessel Seajacks Scylla, has recently visited the Rotterdam Offshore Group (ROG) terminal in the Waalhaven, after her first successful assignment on phase 1 of the Veja Mate Offshore Windpark project. During the vessels stay at the Waalhaven...

Rotterdam Offshore Group (ROG) has has started to upgrade their facilities in the Waalhaven, Rotterdam. ROG has acquired the neighbouring land and buildings to their existing premises allowing the significant expansion of their quayside, storage as well as office...

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has signed a three-year MacGregor Onboard Care (MOC) service agreement with the German shipping company, Peter Döhle Schiffahrts Group, for an annual inspection of deck machinery, steering gear and cranes on a mixed fleet of 70 vessels....

Detyens Shipyards of Charleston, South Carolina, is being awarded a $13.6 million firm-fixed-price contract for a 60-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and dry-docking of USNS Medgar Evers. Work will include clean and gas-free tanks, voids,...

African economies are growing, and becoming more connected to the world economy than ever before. Still, many companies have not discovered the great business opportunities on offer In Africa. In 2017, Nor-Shipping, one of the world’s leading maritime events, will put...

Grand Bahama Shipyard enjoyed a busy 2016 performing repairs, refurbishments and retrofits on vessels from all segments of the commercial maritime industry. The Caribbean's largest shipyard worked on 49 commercial vessels and 20 cruise ships throughout 2016. Scope of...

Italian ferry company Moby S.p.A has chosen Wärtsilä to carry out the repowering of its passenger ferry MV Moby Zaza, the last in a series of repowering projects that started with MV Moby Corse and continued with MV Moby Kiss. The scope of the agreement covers...

Wärtsilä has signed a ten-year maintenance agreement with MOL LNG Transport Europe Ltd., covering two LNG carriers. The service agreement includes all scheduled engine maintenance activities, workshop services and online remote support. Wärtsilä's Condition Based...

ROG, based in the Waalhaven, Rotterdam recently completed the conversion of the MPV (Multi Purpose Vessel) Ndeavor of Boskalis. The vessel was built in 2013 and is 99m in length with a beam of 30m, her gross tonnage is 7413T. The vessel had been equipped for the last...

Grand Bahama Shipyard Limited, the largest and most respected shipyard in the Caribbean, performed work on 20 cruise vessels during 2016. Scope of works included significant propulsion and technical systems overhauls, hull treatment, accommodations and public spaces...

Swedish ferry operator Stena Line has renewed its planned maintenance agreement with MacGregor, part of Cargotec. Stena Line has held MacGregor Onboard Care (MOC) agreements since 2008 and its latest contract takes the number of RoRo vessels covered to 39. "Our...

Damen Anchor & Chain Factory (AKF), based at Schiedam in the Netherlands, has completed the refurbishment of 12 giant lifting hooks for Tata Steel in IJmuiden. Each hook has a lifting capacity of either 225 or 240 tonnes and they are used to lift the enormous bowls...

It with deep regret that we announce the demise of Frederico José Spranger, CEO of Lisnave Estaleiros Navais on 4th December having lost his battle with multiple health problems. His funeral services took place on Tuesday 6th December in Lisbon. Frederico Spranger...

A familiar cruise ship visitor has returned to Gibdock, with the Gibraltar yard undertaking exacting repair and renewal work on Thomson Majesty, the Thomson-operated luxury vessel owned by Louis Cruises. The project involved two weeks in Gibdock’s No. 1 dock for the...