DNV GL surveyors have carried out the classification society’s first offshore drone survey on the semisubmersible vessel Safe Scandinavia in the North Sea. This 25,383 GT tender support vessel (TSV) is owned and operated by Prosafe, supporting Statoil’s drilling operations off the coast of Norway. Using camera-equipped drones, DNV GL’s […]
Remontowa Shiprepar Yard SA has installed scrubbers on more than 40 ships so far. This year, the car-passenger ferry Finneagle, brought to Gdańsk on 29 March 2017, was the first ship to be equipped with scrubbers. It left on May 24. The scope of works on this ship was a […]
On April 27th, 2017 at around 1:30 p.m., a floating dock no 1 located at Nauta Ship Repair in Gdynia with a Norwegian tanker under the repair gradually tilted and finally came to rest on its side, at a depth of about 10 metres. The dock didn’t capesize as some […]
On February 27, 2017, a partially converted ship from a feeder container vessel to a livestock carrier at Nauta Shiprepair Yard SA yard in Gdynia departed the yard and the port of Gdynia, under tow to Denmark. The ship in question is Alondra (IMO no. 9113719). The Nauta SA yard added […]
Starting from September 2017, Finnlines will lengthen four of its “Breeze” class vessels, with an option of two additional ship. This will increase vessel capacity around 1,000 lane metres. Finnlines has signed a contract with Remontowa SA shipyard in Gdansk, Poland where the actual work will commence in mid September […]
Zeebrugge-Hull route operating sister vessels the Pride of York and the Pride of Bruges, built in 1987, have recently undergone their refit worth GBP 8.5 m. The refurbishment of the 880-passenger ro-pax ferries at Remontowa Shiprepair Yard SA in Gdansk included major work on their physical infrastructure and passenger areas […]
On 7 January, 2017 at Remontowa Shiprepair Yard in Gdańsk, a special docking operation was conducted. The shipyard with the assistance of six tugs, docked the Petrobaltic jack-up rig, using a semi-submersible heavy lift unit REM LIFT 25000. This has been the 15th offshore platform serviced at Remontowa and the […]
Scrubbers will be again installed onboard a ro-pax vessel serviced at Nauta shiprepair yard. On December 20, the Peter Pan ro-pax ferry, operated by TT-Line was docked at Nauta. The 191 m long ferry will have its Ecospray Technologies supplied scrubber system installed. During the execution of the project dismantling […]
Besides typical cargo and passenger ships, Remontowa Shiprepair Yard SA in Gdańsk also repairs special ships of various kinds, including the ones used in port and offshore construction and sea engineering. However rock dumping and fall pipe vessels are not very frequent visitors to the yard, perhaps as the world’s […]
Vehicle carriers – both large, ocean haul and those smaller or medium size ones, for feedering and regional distribution – are regular visitors to the docks of Gdańsk-based Ship Repair Yard Remontowa SA. Several ships of this kind have been serviced at the yard this year already as well. Besides routineous works, […]
Pan-European ferry operator P&O Ferries said that it planned to spend GBP 8.5 million (USD 10.6 million) on upgrading its two ships on the North Sea’s Hull-Zeebrugge route. Two 32,000 ton sister vessels the Pride of York and the Pride of Bruges, which can carry up to 880 passengers on […]
All large vessels are usually equipped with two anchors fore and, obviously, all structures and equipment necessary for their use (eg. winches, anchor chains, chain chamber). The owner of a chemical tanker Adfines Star – due to the fact that the vessel is intended to be operated on the waters surrounding […]
