Ship Repair News

Portchester-based boat builder Meercat Workboats are moving to new larger premises in Hythe, near Southampton, and expecting to reignite its export business after the recent EU Referendum. The company has built 28 boats to date, exporting two to Norway, two to the...

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won an order to supply MacGregor offshore cranes and a Triplex handling system for a 14,300gt polar research vessel being built for the Polar Research Institute of China. Designed by Aker Arctic Finland, it will be the first vessel of...

Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam has concluded major modification works on the Sea Installer, an A2Sea-owned jack-up Amsterdam which is now able to handle bigger offshore wind installation projects. The principle scope of work involved the extension of the main crane boom,...

Gibraltar’s Gibdock shipyard has completed an extensive package of work on Solstad Shipping’s Normand Cutter. The 127m long, 10,979grt construction support vessel (CSV) left the yard on June 29th following a 22-day drydock programme, which included a comprehensive...

Zamakona Yards and Wärtsilä are opening a new custom-built maintenance hub in the Canary Islands. Wärtsilä will offer maintenance and repair services at the new maintenance hub for marine and power plant operators with special focus on the offshore market. "The common...

Wärtsilä has won an order for two new 8000m3 trailing suction hopper dredgers being built for the Adani group, India's largest private multi-port operator. The vessels are the first of a new IHC Beagle series designed by Royal IHC (IHC) of the Netherlands. IHC will...

Alfa Laval will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of its first marine separator at SMM this year. The company's stand will showcase their latest innovations for new fuels, energy efficiency, environmental compliance and reducing operational cost. There will also be...

Optimarin is continuing its strong 2016 performance with the announcement that the ballast water treatment (BWT) system specialist has picked up an order covering 15 vessels from VARD shipyards. The vessels, VARD 9 21 Design specialist module carriers, will be...

Into its fifth decade, Posidonia this year set new records for exhibitor floor space, size of conference programme and number of visitors. In total, 1.825 exhibiting companies from 90 countries and territories and 19 national pavilions welcomed 22.366 visitors from...

Babcock International Group has been awarded a contract extension, by Ireland’s Department of Defence, to provide a new Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) for the Irish Naval Service (INS) – building on its long - standing partnership and making it the 4th OPV, in the same...

Chantier Davie shipyard and the Aecon fabrication yard will be adding two ACO Marine wastewater treatment plants in a conversion job on the 23,800dwt containership Asterix. The project is part of the Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) Project Resolve, supporting humanitarian...

Shipyards in Turkey and Portugal were among the first to conclude business deals during the first few days of Posidonia. “We have concluded three major deals during the first two days of Posidonia. Of those, two are repair projects for a tanker and a bulk carrier and...

In the the first commercial application of ClassNK Consulting's machinery condition monitoring and automatic diagnostic system, “K” Line Ship Management (Singapore) is adopting 'CMAXS LC-A' for use on one of its container vessels. “K” Line conducted a successful trial...

The second edition of Wärtsilä’s Encyclopedia of Ship Technology has been at the Nor-Shipping exhibition and conference in Oslo. The publication provides definitions to the current terminology used in the marine industry’s technical vocabulary. It is intended as a...

Gibdock has demonstrated that its strong reputation for ro-ro and container ship repair work continues to resonate around the globe, following the drydocking of two con-ro vessels operated by Canadian shipowner, Oceanex. Oceanex provides intermodal transportation...