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

AD Ports buys Astilleros Balenciaga to expand Mediterranean footprint

Abu Dhabi-based AD Ports Group has acquired the Spanish shipyard Astilleros Balenciaga for EUR 11.2 million as part of its strategy to expand in the Mediterranean and strengthen its capabilities for offshore services. The yard, located near Bilbao…

BAE Systems wins USD 98 million US Navy shiprepair contracts in San Diego

BAE Systems has secured two US Navy contracts worth a combined USD 98 million, equivalent to about EUR 90.2 million at current exchange rates, to carry out scheduled maintenance on USS Kansas City and USS Stockdale at BAE’s Maritime Solutions San…

Grand Bahama Shipyard docks first vessel in new East End floating drydock

Grand Bahama Shipyard has welcomed the first vessel into its new East End floating dry dock, with the Bahamas-flagged Carnival Elation marking the start of operations at the expanded facility. The arrival represents a major milestone in a multi-year…

Oil fire rips through Russia’s Borskaya shipyard

A serious fire broke out on 23 December at the Borskaya Ship Repair Company in Nizhny Novgorod, western Russia, after a fuel leak ignited on a crane vessel during routine operations, according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. The…

Admiral Nevelskoy returns to service after docking and inspection

The Russia-flagged Admiral Nevelskoy has returned to service on the Korsakov-Kuril Islands route following scheduled docking and inspection by the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping. The work, completed in November 2025, included a comprehensive…

Metalock Brasil completes cold repair on merchant vessel flywheel gear

Metalock Brasil has carried out a cold structural repair on the flywheel gear of the main engine of an international-flagged merchant vessel, restoring a critical component of the engine starting system without the need for replacement. The damage,…

Aurora Botnia battery retrofit complete

Turku repair yard in Naantali, Finland, has delivered Aurora Botnia, the electrified RoPax ferry now with some 12.6 MWh of battery capacity on board, back to owner Wasaline. Formerly running on a mix of LNG and bio-LNG, Wasaline opted to retrofit Aur…

Skandi Minder begins aftermarket project at Vard Langsten

The Norway-flagged Skandi Minder has arrived at Vard Langsten quay to start an aftermarket shiprepair and conversion project for offshore owner DOF. The vessel, designed for field installation operations across a wide range of water depths and…

Wärtsilä signs ten-year lifecycle agreement for MOL LNG carriers

Technology group Wärtsilä has signed a ten-year lifecycle agreement with Singapore-based MOL Global Ship Management, fully owned by Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), covering twelve new LNG carriers delivered during 2024 and 2025. The agreement, partially…

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries wins second US Navy MRO contract

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has secured its second maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) contract from the US Navy, covering scheduled work on the USS Cesar Chavez, a 41,000-ton logistics support ship. The award follows completion of the company’s…

Damen contracts Georg Fischer LATAM in Colombian frigate build

Damen Naval has expanded local supplier involvement in Colombia after contracting Georg Fischer LATAM to supply plastic piping for the Plataforma Estratégica de Superficie (PES) programme. Under the project, a Damen SIGMA frigate will be built for…

Hydrex installs underwater doubler plate on damaged RoRo hull in Sohar

An undisclosed RoRo vessel at anchorage in Sohar, Oman, has avoided an unplanned emergency drydock after Hydrex completed a class-approved underwater temporary hull repair. The vessel was found to have sustained severe bottom-hull-plating damage…

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