Repair & Conversion

The sale of Blohm + Voss to the Abu Dhabi MAR Group is likely to be a done deal by the time this issue of The Motorship appears and the historic transfer…

The historic World War 2 US battleship Missouri has recently undergone a three-month $18 million refurbishment in dry dock at Pearl Harbour. Nick-named the Mighty Mo, the 273m long battleship, with a…

Research vessels feature strongly in the current workloads of several German yards busy with small ship repair, refurbishment or conversion, writes Tom Todd.

Polar expedition vessel Plancius owned by Oceanwide Expeditions in the Netherlands was recently converted and refurbished.

Aberdeen-based ship repair and maintenance specialist, Dales Marine Services, has expanded its operations on Scotland’s east coast with the lease of a dry dock at the Port of Leith and a workshop…

Far eastern yards still have plenty of newbuilding work but once the current order backlog is cleared they will be in the same position as the once-great European yards. Tom Todd looks…

Cammell Laird has been awarded a major cable layer ship lengthening contract by Nexans.

Keppel’s Brazilian yard to upgrade third Noble drillship for $152 million