Shiprepair revived in southern UK port

Burgess Marine, which describes itself as Britain’s largest independent ship repairer, says that the commercially thriving port has one of the few remaining dry dock facilities on the South Coast of England. The Adur Dry Dock was established in the 1930s and has recently seen investment by its owner, which was seeking an operating partner. Burgess Marine has been chosen, and says it is looking to reinvigorate the ship repair business in the 50.5m x 10m x 5.2m dock by attracting its existing customer base and new clients into the facility.

Brian Needle, Burgess Marine’s operations director, said: “The facility is superb, as is its location between our existing facilities in Dover and Portsmouth. We already have colleagues living close to the Port and its proximity to our other sites means that we can easily cover larger packages of work and major refits.

Tony Parker, Shoreham Ports director of engineering, said: “The port has been looking for a suitable partner for some time and Burgess Marine ticks all our boxes.