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New 12,000-sq.-m.

Workshop Pays Dividends

Dubai Drydocks Afloat Repair

Division (DDARD) is now ensconced in it's new purpose-built 12,000 sq. m. workshop and offices alongside the actu- al shipyard, the workshop also having another 500 sq. m. of specialized work- shops divided into five disciplines. The workforce has increased to some 87 workers from 70/75, which was the aver- age when the division was operated from

Jebel Ali. During 2003, DDAFD answered a total of 712 inquiries, 356 of which were turned into contracts, a fur- ther 273 inquiries for hydraulic repair work, 97 of which ended up at contracts, and 33 projects awarded by the yard itself. The largest repair contract involved the Express Alexander, which is managed by Switzerland's Doris

Maritime. DDARD carried out a major overhaul of the vessel's main engine, a

MAN 16V 52/55, including the replace- ment of 16 piston rings, and two genera- tors, while the vessel was alongside at

Port Raschid. DDAFD is an authorized repairer on MAN B&W diesel engines.

During the recent FPSO conversions at

Dubai Drydocks, 256.715 dwt FPSO

Xikomba and the 138,930 dwt FPSO

Mystras, DDAFD was contracted to carry out all the hydraulic stainless steel pipes for the hydraulic systems.

Currently DDAFD is carrying out work on two hydraulic pumps onboard the 200,999 Shinyo Guardian in Dubai

Drydocks.

Grand Bahamas Shipyard

Filled with Business

Freeport's Grand Bahamas Shipyard (GBS) has a full shipyard — in Floating

Dock No. 1 the pipelaying barge Lorelay is docked on 3.5 m high blocks (to facil- itate thruster repairs), the vessel also undergoing steel renewals in side shell and in the tanks, overhaul of the thrusters, and painting the hull.

In Floating Dock No. 2, Hamburg-

Sud's 51,059 dwt containership Cap San

Raphael, is being replaced by her sister- ship Cap San Antonio. This is the second of a series of five vessels to be docked for this owner. This is a routine docking with some minor steel repairs due to cargo damage. The next in the series is the Cap San Augustin.

Meanwhile, alongside is Interorient's 15,375 grt RoRo vessel Caribe Merchant having completed drydocking work is now being carried out on the gearbox overhaul and steel work on the ramp.

Also alongside is Dredging

International's cutter dredger Amazone.

The spud poles of this cutter dredger (100 tons each) have been lifted off and put on a barge.

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