Palumbo reports positive year to date
Palumbo Shipyards has secured several ship repair and upgrade works as well routine survey jobs for a variety of vessels (Source: Palumbo Shipyards)
Mediterranean repair yard group, Palumbo Shipyards, has notched up a stream of projects at its seven shipyards this year including cruise and passenger ship repairs and upgrades, and routine survey work on Tsakos Group Suezmax tankers – 2006-built Alaska (163,250dwt) and Archangel (163,216dwt), 2005-built Euronike (164,565dwt), and 2009-built Pentathlon (158,475dwt).
Close to 60 repair and refit projects were completed at the Group’s repair facilities in Italy, France, Malta and Croatia, during the first six months of the year. Repairs and upgrades were carried out on ships including passenger vessels and yachts, tankers, offshore support vessels, military craft, and ferries operated by Croatian company, Jadrolinija.
A major refit of the 65,542-gt cruise vessel, MSC Sinfonia, was carried out at the company’s Malta yard. Work included extensive steelwork in the living spaces and machinery compartments, overhaul of stabilisers and thrusters, the underwater hull was hydro-jetted with the yard’s robotic system, and other maintenance was carried out to cold ironing components, robotic window systems, piping, decks and lifeboats.
A Condition Assessment Program (CAP) survey was successfully completed on the 47,329dwt products tanker, Zapphire, built in 2010, at Viktor Lenac Shipyard in Croatia. And the 31,914-gt cruise ferry, GNV Allegra, built in 1987, underwent drydocking and repair at the Rijeka yard, with servicing of pipes, valves, electric motors, and steelwork. The entire hull and superstructure were recoated using a roller with hydraulic arms from the berth.
