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The two Dammam shipyards together ferred repair center for several rig own- turing of machinery and components for onsite licensed repair centers at our offer 18 slots for building and repair of ers including Rowan & Ensco. and their services in Saudi Arabia. This Dammam and Jeddah shipyards. It now vessels up to 7,300 tons and 102 m long, Recently the Saudi Government IKTVA helped in taking a step towards has agreements in place with Rolls- with a total quay length of 1,200m with launched the IKTVA program (In King- the increase the shipyard,s competitive- Royce, MTU and Sparrow, with others 8m water depth. dom Total Value Added) which is mainly ness in the gulf region by capitalizing under negotiation.

By Hassan Abouraya

The Jeddah yard offers two ? oating to encourage localizing the manufac- on building a Saudi Maritime Cluster docks which enables it to offer docking for all types of merchant and naval ves- sels up to 215 m.

In response to competition in the seg- ment, the company has started imple- menting a diversi? cation strategy. It has started preparing its new facility for life- cycle support of defense and security vessels for local and regional customers.

Recently, it received order from the

Saudi Royal Navy to build a series of

Aluminum very fast interceptors in co- operation with a French shipyard.

Its shipyards have been subjected to comprehensive restructuring to increase their competitiveness, by increasing ef? - ciency, cost cutting and investing in new technology and training. A new General

Manager Carsten Schumacher with track record of almost 30 years in the business was appointed to manage Zamil ship- yards.

Currently its eastern shipyards are fo- cusing on the repair of offshore rigs and small vessels and they become the pre-

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