MARCH 8, 2016 — BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair, San Diego, CA, has been awarded a $28,243,900 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee, incentive-fee contract (N00024-11-C-4408) for USS Higgins (DDG 76)
FEBRUARY 29, 2016 — The U.S. Army has awarded nine shiprepairers a contract worth $147.7 million for repair and maintenance work on its East Coast vessels. GMD Shipyard Corp., Brooklyn, NY (W911S0-16-D-0009);
FEBRUARY 22, 2016 —BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair, San Diego, CA, is being awarded a $15,589,527 cost-plus-award-fee contract for the accomplishment of post shakedown availabilities (PSA) for the littoral combat ships
JANUARY 27, 2016 — BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair, San Diego, CA, has been awarded a $25,589,923 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee/incentive-fee contract (N00024-10-C-4407) for USS Anchorage (LPD-23) fiscal 2016 selected
JANUARY 27, 2016 — Fincantieri reports that it has signed a number of framework agreements with Iranian companies. It says these “preliminary understandings are prior to the accomplishment of several contracts worth
JANUARY 15, 2016 —Boston Ship Repair LLC, Boston, MA, is being awarded a $12,505,219 firm-fixed-price contract for 58-calendar day shipyard availability for the regular overhaul and drydocking of USNS Grumman (T-AO 195).
JANUARY 15, 2016 —Marine Hydraulics International Inc., Norfolk, VA, is being awarded an $8,612,073 firm-fixed-price contract for USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) fiscal 2016 Selected Restricted Availability (SRA). Work will involve
DECEMBER 24, 2015 — Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen (DSV) recently completed work on the 800 passenger cruise ship Marco Polo. Owned by Global Maritime and operated by Cruise & Maritime Voyages, the ship
“Gulf Marine is known for its quality repairs,” said Rick Watts, the newly appointed President of Gulf Marine. “The intent of this consolidation is to create a focus, flexibility, and competitiveness that will meet both the needs of existing customers and the emerging markets.”
Though the combined operations will be carried out under the name Gulf Marine, Hendry Corporation will maintain its identity. It has a rich history in Port Tampa Bay. The original company was started by Captain F.M. Hendry in 1926 as Shell Producers Company, and in 1942, the name was changed to Hendry Corporation.
“This 89-year-old company was founded by owner Aaron Hendry’s father. We value this history and want to continue Mr. Hendry’s long-lived success,” said Mr. Watts.
The transition will result in the combination of shipyard assets and work forces, creating a seamless service provider with a much broader customer offering and a much deeper talent pool.
“We value all of our employees and want to keep them here,” said Mr. Watts. “Repairing tug/barge units and ships is not an easy job. Our employees take pride in what they do, and we take pride in our relationship with our employees.”
The combined companies recently created an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, which will allow all team members to participate in the success of the newly combined company. The plan is one of the first of its kind in the ship repair industry and is designed to reflect the company’s commitment to engaging and maintaining a world class ship repair work force.
“Employees now have the added incentive to remain with our company because each employee will benefit from his/her ownership interest in the company,” said Mr. Watts.
Gulf Marine’s facilities provide vessel owners with a one-stop shop for quality, efficient, and innovative ship repair. In addition to ship repair services, the shipyard offers maritime remediation and gas-freeing services through its affiliate, Universal Environmental Solutions, allowing vessels to conveniently undergo all services at one location.
In addition to commercial and government ship repair, Gulf Marine and its affiliated companies offer a range of maritime services that include drydock construction, steel fabrication, stevedoring and marine terminal operations, marine environmental services, and maritime employee staffing
It covers five vessels operated by ship management major Norbulk Shipping and owned by Netherlands headquartered shipping group Vroon.
The contract gives the shipyard a sizable debut in specialized EGS work. With all five ships also undergoing special survey drydocking, the job is the Gibraltar yard’s largest single assignment in 2015. It is the first series retrofit EGS win for any Southern European yard.
“We are the first shipyard in the region to win a major exhaust scrubber project,” said Gibdock Managing Director Richard Beards. “Our ideal location means that we are always attractive for owners considering this area. Gibdock’s competitiveness, high quality workmanship and on-schedule redelivery has led to this breakthrough deal, which opens a new chapter in the industry’s EGS installation work options.”
Gibdock’s workload included the 37,500 dwt product tanker Great Eastern, the third of the five Norbulk vessels being fitted with PureSOx main engine, auxiliary engine and boiler EGS units from Alfa Laval. The hybrid PureSOx system removes over 98% of SOx emissions from exhaust gases and up to 80% of particulates.
EGS installation work onboard Great Eastern included 90 tonnes of newly fabricated steel, the laying of 12,386 m of electrical cabling and 1,134 m of GRE pipes involving 800 flanges and elbows.
Special survey work included a hull washing, spot grit-blasting and coating job, overhauling of sea valves, propeller withdrawal, bonding of stern seals, rudder clearances, bow thruster overhauling, windlass winch bearing renewal, overhauling of boiler safety valves,pipeworks, insulation works and various other routine dry-dock works. These tasks took place at the same time as the EGS installation, with the ship redelivered on schedule and on budget in 20 days.
Mr. Beards said the time taken for redelivery to Norbulk of subsequent ships has been shortened as projects have progressed.
To optimize EGS retrofit processes, Gibdock undertakes prefabrication for smaller blocks in its workshops, with transfer to the yard’s Pad 1 area, completed in 2014, allowing further structural and assembly work to be completed alongside Drydock 1 in a timely fashion for drydocking.
“Pad 1 was pivotal in optimising workflow,” said John Taylor, Gibdock Operations Director. “No other regional yard has a comparable purpose-built zone for EGS foundation and structural work before vessels arrive.
“This has been an intense collaboration, involving different Gibdock departments, naval architects, the Norbulk project team, Alfa Laval, and our electrical and piping systems subcontractors. Optimised planning, materials purchasing, equipment deployment and job sequencing for EGS work are now part of Gibdock’s competitive advantage.”
