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January 2012www.marinelink.com 19Navy ship repair business in the region; expanded of its ASRY Offshore Services (AOS) and efforts to service the region?s burgeoning offshore oil and gas business on both the rig and offshore service ves- sel sides of the business, via the afore- mentioned Repair Quay Wall and 200,000 sq. m of offshore fabrication and load-out area; and ASRY recently an- nounced a Joint Venture with U.K.-based Centrax to design and build a new line of power barges to serve growing power needs in developing countries globally. THE NEW REPAIR QUAY WALL ASRY?s new 1.38km Repair Quay Wall is located north east of the existing yardin an area known as the ASRY Basin, and will essentially fast-track the company into the lucrative outfitting and repair of offshore structures. The Quay Wall was designed by the UK?s Royal Haskoning and built by Nass Contracting. With an alongside water depth of 12m, the new facility is capable of accommodating three 300,000 dwt vessels simultane- ously. Craneage, when installed in March 2012, will comprise two level-luffing cranes, running on rails, designed andbuilt by Germany?s Ardelt. The cranes, of the company?s Kranich range of sin- gle-jib cranes, are lightweight, flexible units, offering extremely low mainte- nance and tailored for the demanding re-quirements of shiprepair as well asoffshore rig repairs and installation work. One of the cranes will be a Kranich 1000-47, the other a Kranich 1000-28, bothwith a maximum lift of 30 ton swl. ASRY?s facilities expansion program is not just about the new Repair Quay Wall. The investment also includes the con- struction of a 200,000 sq. m. hard stand-ing offshore fabrication area, with load out quay. ?There is a lot of competition for small (offshore) vessels in the Gulf, and it takes significantly more marketing, but it is starting to pay off,? CEO Potter said. POWER BARGE BUSINESS In an attempt to further expand its busi- ness lines to help smooth the curves ofthe ship repair market, ASRY earlier this year joined forces with UK-based power generation packaging specialist Centrax,to form a joint venture company ASRY- Centrax Ltd., a joint venture that will to design and build Power Barges. ASRY has designed the barges itself, and will build them on its two large slipways. ASRY-Centrax?s initial offering is the TPB125, a self-contained modular elec-tricity generating system which features apair of Rolls-Royce Trend gas turbines together producing 125MWe, and indi- vidual barges can be linked together in multiples and supplied with a a tanker barge or barges configured for the stor- age of liquid or LNG fuels. Particular care has been paid to ensuring the envi- ronmental aspects of the operation, andthe barges are designed with double skin fuel and oil tanks, as well as an 80 dBA at one meter sound attenuation. Prospects for the power barge business are expected to grow rapidly, particularly in developing nations where it is increas- ingly difficult to insure and finance land- based structures due to the possibility ofinsurrection attack. Placing the power station on barges offshore helps to trans- form the economics of the power project, as the system is further from harm?s way, and can be pulled out altogether in theface of real danger. To accommodate the needs of developing countries, the 125 MWe system size was chosen as optimal primarily because it enable a relatively shallow draft (2.6 m) barge, enabling it greater lanes of access when dredging isnot practical or possible. While company officials were hesitant to provide a global projection for the business in terms of power or pricing, they did admit that a particular Nigerian developer is mulling the acquisition of ?double digit? numbersof barges, and world areas such as the re- building of Iraq will present opportuni- ties. Depending final outfitting, particularly the inclusion of key security elements, night vision and helidecks, for example, the 125 MWe power barges will sell for between $100m and $125m. BAHRAIN?S PORT EXPANSION The recent opening of the Khalifa Bin Salman Port (KBSP) is a modern con-tainer port operated by APM Terminals, and another plank in Bahrain?s drive to solidify it as a global maritime hub. In particular, it is seen as a potential hub of transport to the region, particularly for destinations in the Upper Gulf.The Khalifa Bin Salman Port (To date the port handles about 340,000 TEU per year (including a call recently from thelargest containership to ever call Bahrain, the 7500 TEU APL Portugal) with a ca- pacity for 1.1 million TEU, and the abil- ity to expand on the current location to more than 2.5 million TEU/yr. should conditions prove right for expansion. Central to ASRY?s push into the lucrative outfitting and repair of offshore structures is its $188m investment in its new 1.38km Repair Quay Wall which is locatednorth east of the existing yard in an area known as the ASRY Basin, ASRY?s Repair Facilities Dock 1 (Graving Dock)Length o.a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .375m Length o.a keel blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .375mWidth o.a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75m Maximum depth above keel blocks . . . . . . . . .8.85m Maximum crane capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 tons Maximum size of ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500,000 dwt Dock 2 (Floating Dock)Length o.a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252m Length o.a. keel blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .235mWidth o.a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53m Clear width between wing walls . . . . . . . . . . . . .44m Maximum depth above keel blocks 9.7mMaximum crane capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 tons Dock lifting capacity 33,000 tonsMaximum size of ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120,000 dwt Dock 3 (Floating Dock)Length o.a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227m Length o.a. keel blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210mWidth o.a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49m Clear width between wing walls . . . . . . . . . . . . .40m Maximum depth above keel bocks . . . . . . . . . .9.7m Maximum crane capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 tons Dock lifting capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30,000 tons Maximum size of ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80,000 dwt SlipwaysDry berth length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .255m Maximum length between blocks . . . . . . . . . . .140mDraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.50m Maximum size of ship . . .to 5,000 tons displacement (Photo: ASRY) MR Jan.12 # 3 (18-25):MR Template 1/9/2012 11:55 AM Page 19