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January 2012www.marinelink.com 21(Photo: Greg Trauthwein) ASRY?s Time Line Bahrain is connected to oil-rich Saudia Arabia via causway, and plans are underway to build a 25 km causeway con- necting Bahrain to the gas-rich nation of Qatar, forwarding the Kingdom?s ambition to be a leading regional and global maritime hub.1974- Dredging and land reclamation for the construction of ASRY starts ? costing US $340m1977 - Yard officially opened by the late Emir H.H. Shaikh Isa Bin Salman Al Khalifa 1979- Dock 1 accepts then the world?s largest tanker ? World Petronas 1981? 1st LNG carrier repaired ? 22,041dwt Venator owned by Nor- way?s Peter Smedvig 1982? Yard fits world?s largest propeller (11m diameter, weighing 70 tons) to the 357,632dwt tanker Wind Escort, owned by Norway?s Lars Krogh1988 ? ASRY taps fresh water spring on sea bed, a world technology first!1991 ? ASRY buys two floating docks from US repairer Jacksonville Shipyards and dredging work starts for the arrival of the new docks. At the same time a new compressed air and service building is built for the float-ing docks1992? The two floating docks arrive in Bahrain after a 70 day tow from the East Coast of the USA, via the Suez Canal1993? Seafarers Center opened1995? ASRY becomes the world?s first shipyard to be awarded ISO 9002 Quality Certification1996? Yard enters Floating Storage & Offloading (FSO) conversion market, with work on the tanker Knock Taggart 1997? ASRY opens Sludge Treatment Plant, the first shipyard in the Arabian Gulf to do so1998? Successfully drydocks the ULCC Sea Splendour, despite the ves- sel being 7m too long for Dock 1. This tanker spent 155 days undergoing repair1999? Yard enters the newbuilding market with the construction of the workboat Shadeed for Kuwait Oil Tanker Co (KOTC) 2001 ? Becomes the first shipyard to achieve ISO 9001:2000 QualityAccreditation2006? Starts construction of new slipways ? the largest of their type in the region2008? ASRY forms new offshore division; ASRY Offshore Services (AOS), to specifically handle oil and gas related work. Opening of newslipways.2010? ASRY becomes first shipyard in the Middle East to achieve ISO 28000 & ISO 20858:2010 Quality Certification2011 ? Sets up joint venture ASRY-Centrax Ltd to tackle the Power Barge newbuilding market. December sees the official opening of the yard?s new 1.38km repair quay wall and the delivery of the first of four new shipyard tugs.MR Jan.12 # 3 (18-25):MR Template 1/9/2012 11:57 AM Page 21