Damen dock repair at Djibouti port
A Damen Modular Dock (DMD) is being constructed and delivered to the Port of Djibouti to provide repair and maintenance services for the port authority’s fleet and other vessels calling at the port.
The authority’s vessels include tugs, shoal busters and pilot vessels.
The DMD 4020 will measure 50 x 20m on completion and is currently under construction in Dubai.
After delivery, Damen services in Gorinchem will stay on hand for two years to give operational and technical support to the port.
A Damen spokesperson said to Maritime Journal: “The dock will not enhance Damen’s repair business as we are only building the dock for Djibouti and it will not be operated as a Damen Shiprepair yard, but it will generate business for the Djibouti Port Authority, who will operate it.”
The dock can be used for a wide variety of repair jobs. It will be equipped with cranes, accommodation units, roller blocks, workshop units, sandblast curtains and dock mooring systems. It can be enlarged to a length of 100 metres when required by coupling modules and wing walls together whilst afloat.
Djibouti is one of the busiest most important shipping gateways to the African continent – it is strategically located at the confluence of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
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