Ship Repair News

Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) has taken delivery of the Sauger III, a custom floating pump station by Damen Shipyards Group for supporting dredging operations. Situated 110 km inland on the River Elbe and with a tidal range of 3.6 metres, the Hamburg Port requires...

ABB will be supplying its onboard motion monitoring and forecasting system to the Xiang Rui Kou heavy lift vessel, competing the entire fleet of Cosco Heavy Transport.  The system to will be installed is a mixed software and motion measurement set-up that on one hand...

Oceanic Technical Solutions has successfully converted all refrigeration and reefer plants onboard a Norbulk managed refrigerated cargo ship to run on refrigerant R407F. The conversion, which follows the January 2015 entry into force of F-Gas rules banning the entire...

An independent study for ABB Turbocharging found that 87% of organizations work only or mostly with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for maintenance support and spare parts procurement.  Key benefits cited were: reduced downtime and better parts availability...

ABB will modernize a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker, installing the latest hardware and software onboard the 38 year old Pierre Radisson As part of the complete upgrade to the ship’s power distribution system, eight new drives will also be installed. The contract...

ClassNK Consulting Service have installed software management systems on two ships managed by Manila-based Rosy Star Ocean Vessels Management Co., Inc., marking the first adoption by clients outside of Japan. ClassNK CMAXS PMS is a complete and simple solution for...

The fallpipe vessel Flintstone has departed from Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam, part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion, following a six-week programme of maintenance and repairs together with her first Special Survey. Owned and operated by the Tideway group of companies,...

Inmarsat partner Beijing Marine Communication & Navigation Company will be undertaking the largest Inmarsat Fleet Xpress installation project to date, for Nanjing Tanker Corporation of China. The new agreement will bring always-on, next generation high-speed broadband...

Refrigeration specialists Oceanic have announced scheduled compressor overhauls on a service exchange basis. Based on compressor running hours, Oceanic are offering to deliver a completely overhauled compressor in exchange for one that has exceeded working hours and...

Power and automation technology group ABB will supply the power system for a hybrid car ferry to serve a  passenger route in Norway. The vessel will run as a hybrid but can be modified to run as a full electric ferry with shore charging system. The order is another...

Damen DOP submersible dredge pumps are being used by Dutch contractor Martens & Van Oord in Cadzand, the Netherlands in an operation involving unexploded Second World War ordnance. The Cadzand old marina entrance needed to be updated and the harbour was to be...

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured an order to provide loose lashings for five 10,500 TEU Hapag-Lloyd container ships under construction in South Korea by Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries. The order builds on a previous contract, which MacGregor announced in...

MacGregor have confirmed an order to deliver hatch covers, cranes, deck machinery and steering gear to two new 25,600 dwt dual-fuelled handysize bulk carriers for Finnish owner ESL Shipping. The ice-class vessels are the first to be built to new classification society...

Damen Shipyards are proposing conversions as an answer to to the increasing number of laid up Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) resulting from low oil prices. The Dutch company’s solution involves converting idle PSVs into vessels capable of taking on roles in...

Gibdock recently completed a recent 19-day maintenance project on HMS Scott, the largest vessel in the Royal Navy's Hydrographic Squadron. Works took place as part of a UK Ministry of Defence contract with main contractor Babcock. The contract, which runs to 2018,...