122 Western Europe with a dry dock that’s 405 metres long by 90 metres wide. Stena Line’s Stena Britannica and Stena Hollandica both spent 18 days in dry dock at Damen Shiprepair in Rotterdam in early 2024. They were updated with new restaurants and bars, modern and rearranged seating areas, which increased passenger capacity. To remove the old paint, each ship’s underwater hull was hydro-blasted, a technique which is not only a sustainable alternative to grit or sand blasting, but also more efficient, allowing the shipyard to complete the project in a short time frame. The ships were then repainted with sustainable coatings. Stena Hollandica was painted with X-GIT Low Friction from GIT Coatings, while Stena Britannica was repainted using silicon, which contains no biocides. Both marine coatings have been designed to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. Each vessel’s propellers were also polished to help reduce friction in the water. Metalships & Docks, Vigo, Spain Spanish company Metalships & Docks was founded in 1975 and is devoted to shipbuilding and ship repairs. The ship repair division has been working continually for over 30 years, carrying out both planned and emergency repairs and upgrades on a wide range of vessels. Metalships recently carried out several steel jobs onboard Quark Expeditions’ Ocean Explorer while the ship was in a month-long dry dock. In April, Adventure Canada’s Ocean Endeavour underwent several repair jobs on its stabilisers and freshwater tanks. The ship repair team also carried out several steel works, painted and treated the hull topsides and repaired several valves. Navantia, Cadiz, Spain Navantia boasts seven dry docks with lengths between 58 and 386 metres, the largest of which is 66 metres wide and has 440,000 deadweight tonnage capacity. The company is continuing to grow in the cruise ship repair market, reporting that it has repaired more cruise FEATURE North America Seaspan Vancouver Drydock, Canada Seaspan Victoria Shipyards, Canada BAE Systems Jacksonville Ship Repair, USA Detyens Shipyards, Charleston, USA Vigor Portland Drydocks, USA Vigor Seattle Drydocks, USA Caribbean and South America Grand Bahama Shipyard, Freeport, The Bahamas Asenav, Valdivia, Chile Damen Shiprepair, Willemstad, Curaçao Europe and the Mediterranean Viktor Lenac, Rijeka, Croatia Fayard, Munkebo, Denmark Orskov Yard, Frederikshavn, Denmark BLRT Grupp, Tallinn, Estonia BLRT Grupp, Turku, Finland Helsinki Shipyard, Finland Chantier Naval de Marseille, France Damen Shiprepair Brest, France Blohm+Voss, Hamburg, Germany Bredo Dry Docks, Bremerhaven, Germany Emden Dockyard, Germany Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven, Germany Gibdock, Gibraltar Fincantieri, Palermo, Italy Fincantieri, Trieste, Italy Palumbo Shipyards, Messina, Italy San Giorgio Del Porto, Genoa, Italy Palumbo Shipyards, Paola, Malta Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam, Netherlands Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam, Netherlands Fosen Yard, Rissa, Norway Green Yard Kleven, Ulsteinvik, Norway Ulstein Verft, Ulsteinvik, Norway Vard Søviknes, Søvik, Norway As good as new A map of the world’s leading passenger ship repair and refurbishment facilities 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 1 Shiprepair Yard Nauta, Gdynia, Poland Lisnave, Setúbal, Portugal Navalrocha, Lisbon, Portugal West Sea, Viana do Castelo, Portugal Astander, Santander, Spain Astican, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain Metalships & Docks, Vigo, Spain Navantia, Cadiz, Spain Oresund Drydocks, Landskrona, Sweden A&P Falmouth, UK Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, UK Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 4 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 ships at its Cadiz facility over the past two years than any other yard. During the first half of 2024, Navantia has completed refurbishment projects on Carnival Cruise Lines’ Carnival Vista, Carnival Sunrise, Carnival Firenze and Carnival Glory, Windstar Cruises’ yacht Star Pride, Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Equinox, Ponant’s L’Austral and Scenic Group’s Polar Class 6 luxury discovery yacht Scenic Eclipse, which was upgraded to include many features that debuted on sister ship Scenic Eclipse II. This included the addition of a KLAFS relaxation room, infrared sauna seats, three salt therapy and three 45
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