106 weeks while its former laser tag arena was transformed into the new Spice H2O, an adults-only complimentary outdoor area separated from the main pool deck. The ship’s dining venues, Cagney’s Steakhouse and Teppanyaki, were expanded during the refurbishment, which also included redesigning suites in The Haven by Norwegian and the creation of 24 new balcony staterooms. Norwegian Bliss also dry docked at the yard in late January 2025, where the team expanded suites in The Haven by Norwegian complex to include threebedroom suites and repurposed part of the Observation Lounge on deck 15 to create 24 balcony staterooms and two club balcony staterooms. The refurbishment project also included the creation of Horizon Park, an outdoor gathering space designed in collaboration with SMC Design and Conductr. A similar outdoor recreation area was built during the refurbishment project onboard Breakaway, which was in dry dock at the French shipyard from 19 February to 12 March. Trimline worked on the public areas for all three ships and also carried out casino extension projects on Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises ships at the yard. Navantia, Cadiz, Spain Navantia repaired and refurbished 17 cruise ships at its shipyard in the Bay of Cadiz, Spain, throughout 2024, including projects onboard TUI-owned cruise brand Marella Cruises’ ship Marella Explorer and TUI Cruises’ Mein Schiff. Trimline installed a 1,200-metresquare floating floor on Marella Explorer using a Weber Marine product in a record-breaking five days. Windstar Cruises’ luxury yacht Wind Surf spent two months in Cadiz while a team worked on refurbishing suites and public areas, including the Yacht Club Cafe, Compass Rose Bar and Lounge, Amphora Restaurant and Wine Room, and the pool bar and deck. The team also created new Broadmoor and Sea Island Suites, which were inspired by land-based 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 Shipyard, Tallinn, Estonia BLRT Grupp Turku Repair Yard, Naantali, Finland BLRT Grupp Western Shiprepair, Klaipeda, Lithuania 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 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 Vard Søviknes, Søvik, Norway 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 Hythe Shipyard, Southampton, UK 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 4 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 45 hotel resorts The Broadmoor in Colorado and Sea Island in Georgia. Navantia has dry dock reservations for 12 cruise ships and 10 ferry-type vessels in 2025. The firm has taken on increasingly complex projects and for the last three years, the Cadiz shipyard has repaired and refurbished the most cruise ships worldwide, according to maritime data analyst firm Marine Benchmark. Oresund Drydocks, Landskrona, Sweden Viking Line’s ferry Viking XPRS spent three weeks undergoing refurbishment at Oresund Dry Docks from late 46 47
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