Mobdocks Beat Drydock for Thruster Repair

Antwerp based underwater contractors Hydrex won the SMM/Lloyds List 2002 Award for Innovation in Naval Shipbuilding and Marine Technology last autumn in Hamburg. A significant factor in their victory was the innovative double-Mobdock system, which has again been deployed to repair a container vessel while it was in port loading and unloading its cargo.

Mobdock being lowered into water.

Antwerp based underwater contractors Hydrex won the SMM/Lloyds List 2002 Award for Innovation in Naval Shipbuilding and Marine Technology last autumn in Hamburg. A significant factor in their victory was the innovative double-Mobdock system, which has again been deployed to repair a container vessel while it was in port loading and unloading its cargo.