Baltic repairer BLRT Group ends and starts the year well
P&O Ferries Pride of Rotterdam in one of the Baltic’s largest floating docks at Lithuania’s Western Shiprepair (Source: BLRT Group)
Estonia-based Baltic ship repair group BLRT ended 2023 on a high and has started the new year well at its three shipyards in Estonia (Tallinn Shipyard), Finland (Turku Repair Yard) and in Klaipeda, Lithuania (Western Shiprepair).
On January 25th, the following vessels were undergoing repair at Lithuania’s Western Shiprepair, a division of Western Shipyard:
- Coral Favia – 10,000m3 capacity 2010-built LNG tanker, owned by Holland’s Anthony Veder, Rotterdam
- Bow Performer – 35,118dwt 2019-built chemical tanker, owned by Grace Ocean Pte Ltd, Singapore (Norway’s Odfjell Tankers) and managed by Synergy Navis Pte. Ltd., Singapore
- Pride of Rotterdam – 59,525gt 2001-built RoPax ferry, owned by the UK’s P&O Ferries, Dover. This vessel sails on the daily service between Hull and Europoort (Rotterdam)
- Berlin – 22,319gt 2016-built RoPax ferry, owned by Germany’s Scandlines, operating between Gedser and Rostock
Meanwhile, earlier this year, Western Shiprepair completed the major drydocking and repair of leading Dutch dredger specialist Van Oord’s 18,000m3 capacity 2020-built TSHD Vox Amalia.
Vox Amalia arrived in Klaipeda at the end of December last year and the scope of work on the relatively brand new vessel included the renewal of the dredgers overflow hydraulic cylinders, which included the reinstallation of the main sea inlet liner and an upgrade of the sea inlet pipeline. At the same time, suction pipes were renewed and anti-wearer doublers fitted to reinforce them. The TSHD was also fitted with a new flow velocity and density metre for enhanced precision.
Meanwhile, at Finland’s Turku Repair Yard, in Naantali, the yard redelivered Viking Line’s cruise ferry Viking Cinderella on 25th January, after a major drydocking and refit. This 46,398gt 1989-built vessel will return to service on Viking’s service between Helsinki and Stockholm in March. The ferry now boasts a bright red hull, instead of its previous white one.
Viking Cinderella also underwent an extensive interior refurbishment and a number of technical upgrades to reduce CO2 emissions, including the overhaul and machining of the vessel’s two propeller shaft hubs.
