Page 22: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (May 16, 1985)

USS Crommelin—Todd Seattle

U.S. NAVY OVERHAUL MARKET

James R. McCaul

President, International Maritime Associates

This article is an excerpt from

IMA's recent quarterly update on the Navy ship maintenance and overhaul market. Information is current as of 1 July, except where noted.

ANALYSIS OF FUTURE

CONTRACTING

Navy has issued a new ship main- tenance planning schedule covering

FY 1985-1986. We have analyzed this schedule to see how Navy will manage future contracting with ship repair yards.

Number of Contracts

As shown in Exhibit 1, a drastic reduction in the number of regular overhauls will occur next year. Only ten regular overhauls are planned in

FY 1986 for commercial yards on the East Coast. This compares with 20 in FY 1985 and 18 in FY 1984. A similar decline is planned on the

West Coast. Five regular overhauls are scheduled for West Coast com- mercial yards in FY 1986. This com- pares with 11 in FY 1985 and nine in

FY 1984.

SRA's and PMA's will continue to increase on the East Coast, reflect- ing the need for short maintenance periods as Navy extends ship over- haul intervals. In FY 1986 Navy plans 62 SRA or PMA job starts on the East Coast. This compares with 38 SRA/PMA job starts in FY 1985 and 30 in FY 1984.

A similar increase in SRA/PMA job starts will not occur on the West

Coast. In fact the number of West

Coast SRA/PMA's in FY 1986 will decline to 35 job starts from 44 in

FY 1985.

The number of jobs (overhauls,

DSRA's, DPMA's) requiring dry- docking will increase on the East

Coast, fall on the West Coast. In FY 1986,34 drydocking jobs are planned for commercial yards on the East

Coast. This compares with 30 dry- docking jobs in FY 1985 and 24 in

FY 1984. On the West Coast there will be 16 commercial drydocking jobs in FY 1986, compared with 28 in FY 1985 and 17 in FY 1984.

In all, it's bad news for West

Coast shipyards and most East

Coast yards. The only good news seems limited to a few yards in major East Coast homeport areas— where captive SRA/PMA work is increasing. 24 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News