Repair & Conversion

French offshore group Bourbon has set up a new organisation, Bourbon Docking, located in Dubai, to manage class dockings of vessels operated by all Bourbon affiliates.

Three weeks of intensive work late last year by engineers from UK company Royston has won praise from the Norwegian operators of the Normand Installer after it was found to need an…

Dales Marine Services says the versatility of its dry docks at Aberdeen and Leith on Scotland’s east coast has been highlighted by work undertaken on the ex-UK royal yacht ‘Britannia’ at the…

Intelligent Engineering’s (IE) continual focus on SPS (sandwich plate system) development combined with the ability to accommodate individual client requirements means that, even in these tough times, it managed to complete over…

It has been a busy start to 2012 for Bahrain’s Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard (ASRY) with a wide variety of ship types from the Arab and international markets arriving for repairs…

Keppel Shipyard in Singapore says that by the end of 2011 it had completed seven FPSO/FSO conversion or modification projects and five major specialised projects while, in 2012, the yard is poised…

Drydocks World in Dubai (DW) has signed a contract with Singapore based AET, a major player in petroleum shipping, for two tanker-to-modular capture vessel (MCV) conversion projects which will be carried out…

A lack of newbuilding is again nudging larger German shipyards into repair, writes Tom Todd.

Bergen Group’s Hanøytangen repair yard has been awarded a contract to carry out mobilisation work on the accommodation rig ‘Safe Scandinavia’ involving a dock stay of about one week. The contract value…