Repair & Conversion

Cruise ships have been to the fore at the German repair yards during the latter part of 2010, writes Tom Todd.

Wärtsilä signed a turnkey contract with Tarbit Shipping of Sweden to convert a product tanker to LNG propulsion and to supply a Wärtsilä LNGPac system for the safe and convenient storage of…

The British Antarctic Survey needed a coating that would protect their ice strengthened research vessel ‘Ernest Shackleton’ during expeditions to the Antarctic region in which it is subjected to extreme mechanical forces.

Gibraltar’s Gibdock shipyard has successfully completed a challenging maintenance and upgrade programme on the 6,430bhp DP2 class ROV/subsea service and platform support vessel, ‘Toisa Vigilant’.

A fourth generation of Miko Salvage Patches has been introduced following upgrades to the successful design of the ‘Hat-Shaped Patch’.

Grand Bahama Shipyard is generally known for its cruiseship repair and upgrade activities and, with about 25 cruise ship dockings every year, GBSL can indeed be considered the biggest in that specific…

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Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured two contracts totalling S$170 million from repeat customers for the conversion of an FPSO vessel and repair of a semisubmersible (semi) drilling rig respectively.

Cargotec has received new conversion contracts from Stena RoRo for two ro-pax vessels fitted with MacGregor cargo access equipment; these new orders are a continuation of four other Stena conversion contracts that…

The Harris Pye Group (HPG) recently had vessels in both the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince of Wales dry docks in Swansea simultaneously.