Hydrex champions its mobile docks: Case studies

Hydrex diver or technician working inside flexible mobdock

Underwater repair work on commercial vessels has increasingly shifted toward techniques that avoid the need for drydocking, saving cost and hassle. 

Hydrex, the Belgian marine services company that specialises in underwater ship repair and maintenance, claims to be the first company to use a prefabricated cofferdam for hull repairs in 1979, when it repaired MV Lunar Venture.

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