GLEN SANNOX has returned to Port Glasgow from a brief but essential stay at dry dock in Greenock. The vessel – one of two dual-fuel ferries being built at Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) – has spent three weeks at Dales Marine for essential works on its propulsion systems, seals and bow doors. She...
Everett, Wash., based Everett Ship Repair, LLC (ESR) has now put its second floating dry dock into service. It made its formal debut at a naming ceremony and grand opening hosted by the shipyard on May 4.
Now named Emerald Lifter, as a tribute to Puget Sound, also known as the Emerald Sea, the former Zidell 220 was relocated to ESR’s facility at the Port of Everett last month. After maintenance and preservation work by the shipyard. it was put into operation on May 3, with its first drydocking.
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High freight rates and ongoing workforce limitations due to travel restrictions and COVID-19 measures are expected to result in Southeast Asia’s ship repair capacity falling by more than 25% compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to Nippon Paint Marine.
In 2019, a total of 516 vessels totalling 28mdwt drydocked at Singapore shipyards for paint jobs, but numbers dwindled to 296 ships in 2020 and 316 the following year as the world responded to the Covid-19 pandemic. Similar shortfalls are...
North-East England-based company ATLAS Decommissioning has secured the giant Inchgreen Dry Dock in Scottland and plans to make it an export hub for the responsible decommissioning of global shipping…
VDL AEC Maritime says it has completed the Installation of 24 scrubbers on vessels of Athens based ship owner Maran Dry Management Inc, reports Ship&Bunker.
Despite the challengesThe programme has been underway for the last three years.“Despite the many challenges at the various shipyards in South East Asia the joint project Team of Maran Dry Management Inc, and VDL AEC Maritime was always able to deliver according the strict and predefined schedule and maintain an average of 20 installation...
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Nippon Paint Marine is seeing liner operators increasingly postpone dry-dockings as they look to keep vessels operational to meet the recent surge in demand for container shipments.
“Container ship owners want to push dry-docking schedules as much as possible because of the high freight rates and capacity shortage,” said John Drew, Director, Nippon Paint Marine (Europe).
“Although the shipowner’s classification society has the final say in accepting any plans to postpone a five-year dry-docking,...
GLEN SANNOX, the first of two dual fuel vessels being built at Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Ltd, has been moved to dry dock in Greenock to undergo a planned schedule of remedial work. The dry dock period is a major step in Ferguson’s revised programme to complete the two public sector vessels....
Chemical tanker that suffered serious engine failure was moved to a ship repair yard, reports Maritime Bulletin.
What happened?One of the two engines of Chemical tanker DACIL failed while leaving Bilbao Spain, on May 27, bound for La Coruna.
The tanker was allowed to continue her voyage at a reduced speed. She reached La Coruna on May 29.
Inspection findingsInspection was carried out and it was found that her crankshaft was in need of fixing. The repairs will take about a month. The tanker was...
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According to Platts report written by Marieke Alsguth, Scorpio Tankers has reported strong fourth-quarter returns for clean tankers across all regions last Wednesday, especially for ships installed with scrubbers to comply with the International Maritime Association’s lower sulfur bunker fuel mandate.
What is it?Long Range 1, Long Range 2, and Medium Range clean tankers saw time charter equivalent earnings (TCEs) — the daily earnings on a given ship’s voyage — very high compared with recent...
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