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

APC to recoat cargo tanks of two Gulf Navigation chemical tankers at Chinese shipyard

Ohio-based Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC) is to recoat the cargo tanks of two Gulf Navigation-owned chemical tankers at China’s IMC Shipyard in Zhoushan, with APC providing specialist on-the-ground guidance led by its China-based engineering team.

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Denmark’s Fayard drydocks RoPax ferry Atlantic Vision after nearly 16 years service in Canada

The 30,285gt 2002-built RoPax ferry Atlantic Vision drydocked at Denmark’s Fayard ship repair facility in Munkebo on April 17th after completing a long-term bareboat charter to Canadian ferry operator Marine Atlantic. Owned by Baltic SF IX, a…

Former Fred Olsen Cruise Line’s Braemar arrives in Belfast for conversion into residence cruise ship

The former Fred Olsen Cruise Line-owned vessel Braemar arrived at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast on April 26th for her conversion into the residential cruise vessel Villa Vie Odyssey. The vessel arrived in Belfast from the Scottish port of…

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…

Damen Shiprepair to boost the efficiency of up to 100 CMA CGM-owned container ships

In a major ten-year project, Damen Shiprepair is to boost the operational efficiency of up to 100 container ships owned by Marseille-based container shipping giant CMA CGM. The work will be spread over two shipyards in the Damen group of repair…

Singapore’s Seatrium secures USD 260 million in new repair and conversion deals

Singapore ship repair and conversion giant Seatrium has announced that it has secured new repair and conversion contracts valued at USD 260 million (SGD 350 million). The new contracts are for work on a variety of ship types, including FSRUs, FPSs,…

H2 Energy and DFDS publish results of hydrogen propulsion retrofit study

During the past twelve months, Denmark’s H2 Energy and ferry giant DFDS have worked on a project together to look at the feasibility of retrofitting large ferries with a hydrogen propulsion system. Now, the project has been finished contributing…

Seaspan Corp and Hapag-Lloyd to convert five vessels to methanol-fuelled main engines

The world’s largest owner of container ships, Canada’s Seaspan Corp, and Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd are to convert five 10,000-TEU container ships from conventional fuel main engines to dual-fuel methanol-powered vessels in a project costing USD 120…

Major new ship and offshore repair yard to be built in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s planned Ras Al-Khair Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is to feature a major ship and offshore repair facility, as well as a shipbuilding yard. The new repair yard will be aimed at repairing VLCCs, offshore jack-up rigs and offshore support…

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