Walvis Bay-based Namdock busy with its bread and butter work – oil and gas support vessels
Walvis Bay-based repair yard Namdock (Source: Namdock)
The west coast of Africa is not exactly over-subscribed with quality shiprepair yards to handle the vast array of vessel types that operate in this area year-round. These vessels include large and small fishing vessels from the various West African nations, as well as larger vessels from much further away, and of course the plethora of support vessels operating in the region’s oil and gas markets.
One of the leading repair yards in this part of the world is Walvis Bay-based Namibia Drydock and Shiprepair (Pty) Ltd – Namdock. This yard has three floating docks, the smallest measuring 139.5m x 23.5m, with Dock No. 1 and 2 having lifting capacities of 15,000 tonnes and 8,000 tonnes, respectively.
On February 7th Namdock had a total of five vessels undergoing repair:
- SL Cormorant – 906gt 2003-built, fire-fighting vessel, owned by UAE-based Smit Lamnalco, Sharjah and managed by Lamnalco Group, Dubai
- Skoul Melen – 1,943gt 2011-built OSV, owned by Cyprus-based Deep Sea Supply, Limassol
- Bourbon Diamond – 4,699dwt 2008-built PSV, owned by France’s Bourbon Offshore, Marseille
- Gubert Tide – 3,037dwt 2009-built PSV, owned by Cameroon’s Tidewater Marine, Douala and managed by Tidewater Marine, Houston, Texas
- African Installer – 100m x 40m offshore construction and accommodation barge, owned by Cyprus-based African Offshore Services, Limassol
