Ship Repair - Ship & Offshore

Welcome to the new Ship Repair section, incorporated into shipandoffshore.net

In addition to the Ship and Offshore Repair Journal, the Ship Repair Newsletter is now also part of the Schiff&Hafen and Ship&Offshore family of the DVV Media Group in Hamburg. On this part of our website you will now find the latest news from the repair, conversion and retrofitting business.

Every Monday, you will find the most important news conveniently in your inbox.

Beyond that, more in-depth and technical background information can be found in the continuation of the Ship and Offshore Repair Journal which is being published alongside Ship&Offshore every second month.

Ship Repair News

Conrad Shipyard to build sixth YRBM barge for NavSea

The US Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NavSea) has exercised its option to build a sixth yard, repair, berthing and messing vessel (YRBM barge) at the Morgan City, Louisiana-based Conrad Shipyard LLC.

The newbuilding is destined for service at the…

China’s Yiu Lian Dockyards (Shekou) Ltd completes drydocking of cruise vessel Resorts World One

One of China’s leading commercial ship repair and conversion yards, Yiu Lian Dockyards (Shekou) Ltd, based in the south of the country, close to Hong Kong, successfully completed the five-day drydocking and refit of the 75,338gt 1999-built cruise…

Harland & Wolff completes major conversion of cruise ship Margaritaville at Sea Islander

The cruise ship Margaritaville at Sea Islander has completed her major upgrade at Belfast’s Harland & Wolff shipyard and successfully completed sea trials in the Irish Sea.

The former Costa Atlantica is now set to cross the Atlantic and start her…

Damen Shiprepair Brest busy with two cruise ships

Damen Shiprepair Brest ended April on a high with two cruise ships in drydock undergoing scheduled refits.

Undergoing repair in Drydock No.2 on May 1st was the 10,944gt 2010-built expedition cruise ship Le Boreal, owned by Marseille-based Ponant…

SIEM Shipmanagement to retrofit three car carriers with BIO-UV BWTS

Gdynia-based SIEM Shipmanagement is to retrofit three of its managed pure car carriers (PCC) with French-based BIO-UV Group’s innovative BIO-SEA ballast water treatment system (BWTS).

The vessels are the two 3,205 CEU capacity sister ships Siem…

Dubai’s Tristar Eships to fit Wärtsilä decarbonisation system to two tankers

Dubai-based shipowner Triships Eships, the maritime logistics division of the UAE’s Triships Group, has selected Wärtsilä’s Decarbonisation Services to support its decarbonising operations. The Wärtsilä system will initially be fitted to two chemical…

Japan develops robotic ship inspection tool

The wall-climbing robot for ship’s steel structures, developed by Mitsui OSK Lines, Sumitomo Heavy Industries and MOL Shipmanagement to support ship inspection and maintenance has completed a demonstration test and earned the ClassNK innovation…

Bangladesh builds drydock at new naval submarine base

The Bangladesh Navy is building a graving dock at its new Sheikh Hasina submarine base in the Bay of Bengal. The new drydock will measure 130m x 30m.

The new submarine base is located at Pekua, in Cox’s Bazar, 200 miles southeast of Dhaka, and has…

Further two-month delay to repairs to CalMac’s RoPax ferry Caledonian Isles

The problems of running a lifeline ferry service with an ageing fleet and a punishing year-round service schedule are only too evident at Scotland’s largest ferry company, Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac). CalMac’s 31-year old RoPax ferry Caledonian…

Ontario Shipyards mothballs its Thunder Bay facility

Canadian Great Lakes ship repairer Ontario Shipyards (formerly known as Heddle Shipyards) is closing its Thunder Bay yard temporarily due to lack of repair work, a shortage of skilled workers and the non-arrival of some newbuilding sub-contract work…

Babcock’s takes over the full upkeep of the RN’s Type 23 frigates

UK defence contractor Babcock has been awarded the contract to manage the Royal Navy’s (RN) Duke-class Type 23 frigates Refit Support Group (RSG), allowing the company to take end-to-end responsibility for vessel upkeep and regeneration in…

MOL to retrofit onboard CO₂ capture system on Nexus Victoria

Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is to retrofit its 75,000dwt LR1 product tanker Nexus Victoria with the Filtree System, an onboard CO2 capture system with SOx scrubber, manufactured by Holland’s Value Maritime BV, a Dutch emission-reducing technology…

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