Shipyard News

Extra decks are being added to P&O Ferries European Pathway and European Gateway at the Lloyd Werft shipyard in Bremerhaven, Germany as part of a £ 50m conversion project.

Ship repair in the UK is looking positive for 2003 according to the A&P Group, which has confirmed that all 14 of their dry docks are full with various vessels under repair,…

Smit Transport Europe has welcomed the New Years delivery of the Smit Engineering designed test lift barge E3505, which will be used by offshore crane vessel operators such as Heerema and Saipem…

A new high performance blast cleaning system which greatly reduces abrasive usage in removing thick and difficult coatings is now available from Sheffield UK based Hodge Clemco.

When Anglian Princess took up her duties with the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) in September it marked a significant milestone for her owners Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd and the Coastguard service.…

Scotlands Gareloch Support Services are the proud owners of a new Halmatic MRV 20 Multi-Role Vessel which was delivered last month and immediately deployed to a marine construction project replacing fender piles…

The arrival of the new tug/ workboat Jack James to J Butcher & Sons Ltd of Portsmouth passed quietly and without clamour on the 6 September. Within a day or two the…

Ro-Clean Desmi have delivered a 10m Pollkitten, the smallest in their range of Pollcat anti-pollution boats, to the CEPSA oil refinery at Spains rapidly expanding port of Algeciras. Within five days of…

The first vessel to drydock at the A&P Birkenhead shipyard since the A&P Group acquired the facility last year is the 1,537dwt general cargo vessel Kay L, which is owned by the…

Manchester UK based Elcometer Instruments Ltd has launched two new precision ultrasonic wall thickness gauges which are designed to provide accurate thickness measurements on thin materials and are capable of measuring substrate…