Refurbishment

Now sporting P&O Cruises Australia livery and funnel logo, ‘Pacific Encounter’, ex ‘Star Princess’, left a Singapore shipyard recently. Each of the P&O funnel logos is 20 m wide and 8 m high. She was also fitted-out with [Read more...]

Late last year, the Damen group completed a project to replace one of the twin rudder stocks on P&O Ferries’ ‘Pride of Canterbury’. The 180 m long, 30,635 gt ropax operates on the Dover/Calais crossing. The nearly 30-year [Read more...]

Trimline has adapted quickly to the pandemic invoked situation and is working closely with the cruise and ferry sectors to help them resume service. The company said that its adaptable and experienced teams of tradespeople were often boarding [Read more...]

Fincantieri has been granted a 40-year concession to exclusively manage a new Mexican shiprepair yard. The new repair yard will be built in the Port of Progreso in Yucatán State, Mexico and will have two drydocks able to [Read more...]

Thordon Bearings is to retrofit its grease-free ThorPlas-Blue bearings to ForSea Ferries’ ‘Tycho Brahe’, during her next scheduled drydocking. This contract follows the success of the bearing installation to the bow doors of ‘Aurora’, the first of two [Read more...]

The lifting of the US ‘No-Sail Order’ puts cruise shipbuilding back on track and activities at resin applications specialist Bolidt have quickly ramped up in response, the company revealed. In what represents a significant step forward for the [Read more...]

PALFINGER has completed its first major refurbishment jobs since the outbreak of the COVID-19-pandemic. Royal Caribbean Group awarded the company a contract to service 18 lifeboats and 20 winches for ‘Allure of the Seas’, the first cruise ship [Read more...]

West coast Scotland ferry operator, CalMac Ferries has awarded MJR Power and Automation a three-year framework contract to provide electrical installations services across the fleet. The company was appointed - alongside three other companies – to deliver services [Read more...]

Damen Shiprepair Harlingen (DSH) recently completed repairs to Rederij Doeksen’s passenger/car ferry ‘Vlieland’. The vessel operates across the Wadden Sea, between Harlingen in the north of the Netherlands and the island of Vlieland. ‘Vlieland’ needed repairs following a [Read more...]

Scottish West cost ferry operator CalMac is undertaking some significant fleet improvements during this year’s drydocking maintenance programme. Every year, each of the company’s 34 vessels, ranging in size from the 8,600 gt ‘Loch Seaforth’, to the 11 [Read more...]