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THE SHIPYARDS • Repair & Conversion, New Construction, Investment

Review of recent repair jobs, new construction & shipyard investment

The Shipyards

Despite a general market downturn, ship- yards globally remain active with routine ? eet maintenance work while eying a poten- tial boom in activity premised on a long list of environmental regulation mandate.

Damen: Tandem Seismic Vessel Repairs

Photos: Top to Bottom

Late last year Damen Shiprepair Amster- dam (DSAm) completed a 10-day, round-

Oceanic Sirius and Oceanic Vega have the-clock maintenance on sister-ships Oce- completed a round-the-clock, 10-day main- anic Sirius and Oceanic Vega, a job where tenance programme at Damen Shiprepair for eight of those days the two 106-m ves-

Amsterdam (DSAm). sels were in the yard’s 250-m drydock No.

Photo: Damen 4 together. The twin SX120 type seismic

RVs are owned by CGG Eidesvik Ship

Costa Fortuna sailed away from Semb-

Management AS, a joint venture between corp Marine Admiralty Yard on December

Eidesvik Offshore and CGG, originally 16, 2018 after repairs at the yard.

built by Ulstein Verft in Norway.

Photo: Sembcorp Marine

Repairs and upgrades included main- tenance on the propeller nozzles of both vessels and paint work. “When riding a

ALMACO Group delivered 36 new luxuri- ous Seabreeze Penthouses and two new tandem, one is steering and one is working spacious Seabreeze Penthouse Suites to the pedals,” said Tjeerd Schulting, MD,

Crystal Cruises’ Crystal Serenity.

DSAm. “Only excellent teamwork will

Photo: ALMACO bring you quickly and safely over the ? n- ishing line.”

Sembcorp Marine: 10 Cruiseships in ‘18

Repairs & Upgrades. Sembcorp Marine

Sembcorp Marine completed 10 cruise has delivered a total of 102 cruise ship re? t ships in 2018, ? nishing the year with the and upgrade projects over the past decade, redelivery of Costa Fortuna, a 1,358-cabin averaging about 10 vessels a year. vessel operated by Costa Crociere. The yard’s cruise business for the year includ-

ALMACO: Suite Refurb on ed six ships from established customers

Crystal Serenity in Bremerhaven in Carnival Cruises, Princess Cruises and ALMACO Group recently delivered 36

Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, and one new luxurious Seabreeze Penthouses and from new customer Norwegian Cruise two new spacious Seabreeze Penthouse

Line. Looking to 2019, Sembcorp Marine Suites to Crystal Cruises’ Crystal Serenity. sees strong cruise business ahead, to date This project was part of an extensive rede- booking 13 jobs. It will also manage the sign of the ship, started during the drydock turnkey upgrade of the Paci? c Jewel, Zen at Lloyd Werft shipyard in Bremehaven,

Cruises’ ? rst upmarket cruise liner in In- Germany. The suites were delivered in dia. All these projects will take place at Lisbon, Portugal, before the ship returned

Sembcorp Marine’s Tuas Boulevard and to Florida.

Admiralty yards, both equipped with large ALMACO’s scope of work included de- and deep-drafted dry docks ideal for mega- molishing the existing 58 standard state- size cruise vessels. rooms on deck 10 and building in their “Given the continued strong growth of place two new Seabreeze Penthouse Suites cruise tourism, especially in Asia, Semb- and 36 Seabreeze Penthouses, increasing corp Marine is well positioned to capitalise signi? cantly the space and decreasing the on the boom with our proven capabilities guest count to provide a more exclusive

Photo: ALMACO Photo: Sembcorp Marine Photo: Damen and facilities,” said Alvin Gan, Head of guest experience. www.marinelink.com 33

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