Repair & Conversion

Cargotec has secured two new MacGregor Onboard Care all inclusive contracts.

Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven will upgrade the 44,588 gt cruise ship Artemis (ex Royal Princess) for the third time in April prior to her last season for P&O Cruises and handover to Artania…

Keppel Offshore & Marine subsidiary Keppel FELS Brasil, has secured contracts from Noble Corporation to upgrade and repair three of Nobles Brazil-based drillships for $456 million.

Hydrex Spain recently performed cleaning work with its own developed equipment on two large container vessels at anchorage 2km off the coast of Algeciras.

Birkenhead-based Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders won a major contract to lengthen a cable laying ship for Nexans AS of Norway, a subsidiary of the international French based Nexans Group.

Hydrex has developed a new method enabling permanent repairs of rudders without drydocking the ship.

Jurong Shipyard in Singapore, a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, has recently been busy.

Despite the global financial crisis, Estaleiros Navais de Viana do Castelo (ENVC) in Portugal had, in terms of ship repair results, its second best year ever in 2009.

Bahrain’s ASRY has signed a ‘heads of agreement’ with the UK’s A&P Group to become the repair yard of choice in the Arabian Gulf for two clusters of Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA)…

During 2009, Fincantieri of Italy carried out five repair jobs on cruise vessels and two conversions with most of work carried out at the company’s Palermo shipyard which concentrates on ship repairs…