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

Ship Repair
29.06.2026
Ship Repair

UK Docks secures approval for new boat maintenance facility in Gosport

UK Docks Marine Services has received planning permission for a new boat maintenance shed at Victoria Quay in Gosport, as part of its ongoing expansion of the Weevil Lane site within the former Royal Clarence Yard. The new facility will add around…

Ship Repair
29.06.2026
Ship Repair

Damen to build EUR 100 million shipyard in Kazakhstan

Dutch shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group has signed a framework agreement with Kazakhstan’s Mangystau Region to develop a new shipyard in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea, in a project valued at approximately EUR 100 million. The agreement was…

Ship Repair
29.06.2026
Ship Repair

Fleet support contract for HII as US Navy wartime readiness questioned

A study by the Rand Corporation has called into question the US Navy’s capacity for shiprepair in the event of a conflict with China, determining that US shipyards lack sufficient capacity to maintain or regenerate the existing fleet in such a…

Ship Repair
29.06.2026
Ship Repair

Phoenix completes emergency underwater hull repair after vessel grounding

Phoenix International has completed an emergency underwater hull repair project in Pascagoula, Mississippi, following damage sustained when the vessel grounded.

The company mobilised a team of commercial divers in early April to assess the vessel…

Ship Repair
29.06.2026
Ship Repair

Damen acknowledges repair of LNG carrier linked to Russian export chain

In conversation with Norwegian outlet “High North News”, Damen revealed that its shipyards carried out emergency repairs on an LNG carrier connected to Russia's Yamal LNG export network in August 2025, in spite of a company policy introduced earlier…

Ship Repair
29.06.2026
Ship Repair

New repair coating on harbour crane in India

German corrosion protection specialist Steelpaint has successfully completed a field trial of its new Stelcatec-L repair coating system on a Liebherr LHM 500 mobile harbour crane operated by ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel at Hazira Port, Surat, India.

T…

Ship Repair
22.06.2026
Ship Repair

First steel cut for new BLRT floating dock

BLRT Grupp has begun construction of a new floating dock for its Klaipėda-based ship repair yard, Western Shiprepair, in a move that will expand capacity and enable the facility to handle larger vessels, including Panamax ships.

The project reached…

Ship Repair
22.06.2026
Ship Repair

Mega-boxship successfully converted to dual-fuel methanol operation

DNV says the successful methanol conversion of the 20,000-TEU containership COSCO Shipping Libra demonstrates that meaningful decarbonisation of existing fleets is already technically achievable, following one of the largest low-carbon fuel retrofits…

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