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Navantia, Astican and Navalrocha have all been occupied with cruiseships and ferries in the first quarter of 2024
Strict COVID-19 measures enables work to continue at A&P
A&P Group has deployed a strict programme of Covid-19 measures to ensure it can maintain its support to the maritime community as it emerges from the pandemic. Over the last eight weeks, A&P has deployed a number of stringent measures at all three of its UK...
Namdock has resumed full operations
“Namdock has resumed full operations with effect from Tuesday 5 May 2020, in accordance with the inception of stage 2 of the lockdown, which has seen the partial easing of restrictive measures thanks to the recent flattening of the infection curve,” explains Heritha...
Restart your business with BV – a service for passenger ships
Bureau Veritas (BV), a world leader in testing, inspection and certification (TIC) services has developed a new service and a new label – ‘Safeguard’ - to help businesses world-wide resume operations with appropriate health and safety standards. ‘Restart Your Business...
Share your company’s experiences of what you are doing to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic
What is your company doing to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic? Share with SeaFirst your company's experiences of how you maybe looking to new markets, or offering new products or services, to aid your company's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Have an opinion...
SMM 2021: A new impetus for maritime transformation
Every two years SMM brings together industry stakeholders from around the world. Because of the Coronavirus crisis, the leading international maritime trade fair has been postponed until 2-5 February 2021. Not surprisingly, the effects of the pandemic were the main...
New exhaust gas cleaning systems (marine scrubbers) partnership
Damen Shiprepair Harbour & Voyage (DSHV) has signed a joint partnership cooperation with Verolme Special Equipment for the provision of services to exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS), widely known as Marine Scrubbers. The agreement arose from a mutual...
Simultaneous repairs in South and Central America
During one week in early April, Metalock Brasil carried out simultaneous repairs on three vessels in three different countries in South and Central America. On an oil tanker, moored in Cristóbal, Panama, a Metalock cold stitching technician inspected an auxiliary...
Lobbying the IMO on behalf of offshore workers
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) is playing a key role in two industry groups lobbying the IMO to support a recommendation for Governments and national authorities to facilitate the movement of offshore energy sector personnel during the...
Oresund DryDocks in Sweden continues working through the COVID-19 pandemic
Oresund DryDocks in Sweden has continued to work through the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have been working with business as usual since the outbreak in February,” states Magnus Malmström, CCO of Oresund Drydocks AB. “We are working at full capacity, according to the size...
Sembcorp Marine adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
Sembcorp Marine has been adversely affected by the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with all other sectors and industries in the global economy. Measures to contain the pandemic have severely disrupted transportation, supply chains, manpower access and...
Scandlines still operating on Puttgarden-Rødby and Rostock-Gedser routes
“Scandlines continues to operate, according to schedule, on its two routes between Germany and Denmark,” says Anette Ustrup Svendsen, Head of Corporate Communications at Scandlines. “The BorderShops in Puttgarden and Rostock are closed until further notice, but...
Sound legal advice for ship repair yards trying to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic
Mark Johnson, and James Brown, Partners at Haynes & Boone updates Haynes & Boone’s first article, published in the March issue of Drydock, which was written before any European country had entered into "lockdown". That article particularly concentrates on matters...
Full steam ahead at Namdock
Established ship repair and wholly Namibian-owned company Namdock, strategically located on the west coast of Africa in Walvis Bay, resumed full operations with effect from Tuesday 5 May 2020. This is in accordance with the inception of stage 2 of Namibia’s national...
Emergency ship repair in a pandemic
It is difficult currently difficult enough to continue operations in ship repair where you have some control over the environment, but imagine having to get personnel and equipment across the world in time to carry out an emergency ship repair. The problems are too...
The Erhama bin Jaber Al Jalahma shipyard remains fully operational throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
The Erhama bin Jaber Al Jalahma shipyard remains fully operational throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. There are currently several vessels at the yard for repairs and maintenance works as well as repair and maintenance ongoing for a number of Jack Up Rigs (JUR). There...