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

Converted PSV Ross Eagle completes first project

Ross Eagle, a vessel originally built as platform supply vessel (PSV) Highland Eagle by Norway’s Brattvaag Shipyard in 2003, was this year converted into a special purpose vessel with the addition of a 100-tonne A-frame and active heave-compensated…

Regal Princess returns to service after engine trouble

Cruise ship Regal Princess has been repaired at Galveston after a number of issues with the vessel’s generators forced Princess Cruises to cancel several sailings.

The vessel suffered an engine fire several days into a transatlantic voyage from the…

Zelim Swift put to the test in Pembrokeshire

Zelim’s Swift man-overboard (MOB) recovery system, comprising a technology not unlike a conveyor belt for scooping people out of the water, is garnering increasing attention in recent months. It has won more business this week with the retrofit…

Keep an eye on corrosion in control rooms, says Cortec

Cortec is calling on shipowners to pay more attention to damp corrosion in vessel control rooms.

In engine rooms, where the risk of corrosion is well understood, ventilation systems are overbuilt to protect against fire risk, and components are…

Syroco weather routing to benefit Odfjell sail installations

Norway’s Odfjell is to deploy Syroco weather routing on Bow Olympus and Bow Optima, two vessels each about to be retrofitted with four bound4blue suction sails.

Odfjell expects that the weather routing capability will be able to optimise utilisation…

Silverstream signs MoU with Yiu Lian Dockyards

China repair yard Yiu Lian Dockyards, in Shenzhen, has signed an MoU with Silverstream to add air lubrication retrofit installations to its portfolio.

Silverstream systems use a layer of air micro-bubbles to reduce friction between the hull and…

Maersk Tankers gets involved in yet another order for bound4blue

Suction-sail pioneer bound4blue has signed a contract with Maersk Tankers to retrofit 20 sails on five Maersk MR tankers between 2025 and 2026.

Maersk Tacoma, Maersk Tampa, Maersk Tangier, Maersk Teesport and Maersk Tokyo will each be equipped with…

Deficient steelwork to extend downtime for vital CalMac Ferry Caledonian Isles

CalMac ferry Caledonian Isles, originally scheduled to return from a long stint at Ferguson Marine Shipyard at the end of this month, will now have its stay extended by several months after critical deficiencies were discovered in the steelwork.

The…

Hydrex mobdock method used for on-site stern tube seal replacement

Hydrex has conducted stern tube seal replacements on one 294m tanker in Cartagena, and one 195m RoRo ship in Burnie, Tasmania, using the ‘mobdock’ method introduced in 2002.

The Mobdock consists of a sealed, half-torus shaped underwater structure…

ECOsubsea new drone drastically improves hull cleaning time

ECOsubsea has successfully cleaned a Capesize vessel of 18m draught in four hours, using a drastically more efficient model of remotely operated vehicle (ROV), which the company claims beats out divers by ten times. The company has launched a new…

MAN books more methanol engines

MAN Energy Solutions reports that its methanol engine order book has grown to 95 and that a pioneering methanol engine retrofit, a G95ME-C10.5 type, is currently undergoing sea trials in China.

Gibdock signs air lubrication MoU

Gibdock has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Armada Technologies to retrofit its passive air lubrication system (PALS). Designed to reduce hull friction and improve the emissions profile of vessels, Armada Technology’s PALS skips the use of air compressors in favour of small boost pumps to generate the bubble lubrication, allowing it to use less energy and provide higher fuel savings.

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