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March 2011 www.marinelink.com 55 room, toilets with quality terrazzo floor- ing along with associated piping and ac- commodation fittings. The first vessel,

MV Seacor Mariner was delivered to the client in early November to their com- plete satisfaction and the second vessel,

MV Dean Andrew is being delivered in

December.

GRANDWELD AT

DUBAI MARITIME CITY

Grandweld and Drydocks World Dubai signed a long term ground development lease agreement (Musataha) last summer for a ship building and ship repair facility at the Industrial Precinct of Dubai Mar- itime City (DMC). Under the Musataha lease agreement, Drydocks World Dubai leases DMC – Industrial Precinct plots

SR 1 & 2 measuring 27,055 sq. m. to

Grandweld for a period of 25 years. “Grandweld, with two and a half decades of expertise in ship building, repair and conversion, is taking a new step by sign- ing the Musataha agreement”, Jamal

Abki explained. “The new facility in

DMC is an additional milestone for

Grandweld and will allow us to double our shipbuilding capacity. Moreover, it offers us extra capacity for docking larger vessels at the ship repair facility that has full and free access to the Arabian Gulf” he said.

Space Layout • 27,000 sq. m. (Construction space) • 7,000 sq. m. (Workshop) • 2,000 sq. m. (Store)

Docking Facilities • 2 Synchrolift: 3000 & 6000 tons • Up to 10m draft • 31 dry berthing; incl. 8 long berths • Platform size of 100m • 1x 570m & 1x230m wet berth (exc. Bollards) “This year we are happier as we can see a gradual improvement from both the banks and the clients.

We also are seeing a bigger move offshore.”

Grandweld’s GM Jamal Abki