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.”
Work will involve ship repair, maintenance, and modernization.
The contract includes option items which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $26,651,350.
Work will be performed in Norfolk and is expected to be completed by July 2016.
Fiscal 2016 operation and maintenance (Navy); and fiscal 2016 other procurement (Navy) funding, in the amount of $25,236,623 will be obligated at time of award, and funds in the amount of $23,339,814 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The contract was competitively procured under full and open competition via the Federal Business Opportunities website; two offers were received.
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center, Norfolk, VA, is the contracting activity (N50054-16-C-0002).
Dave Saginaw, Commercial Director of McQuilling Services, LLC in New York and the project Director of the Brasil Basin Drydock Company (BBDC) project said today that the project has progressed into the next phase of implementation.
Additional early stage investment funds have been received and applications for environmental licenses have been submitted toauthorities in Brazil.
“We are extremely excited about the advancement of activities in the development of the new ship repair facility in the northeast of Brazil” said Mr. Saginaw, “We are receiving strong support from both our new investors and from state and local authorities in Paraíba and the municipality of Lucena. We couldn’t be more pleased with our current progress, in the midst of quite a challenging investment climate.”
Celso P. Souza, project manager for the BBDC project said from Rio de Janeiro, “The implementation of the new facility is on schedule. With the filing for the environmental permits and the creation of the environmental impact analysis underway, we are now moving forward with the next stage of facility design and engineering. We envision start of construction by late 2016/early 2017 with first repair operations commencing early in 2019.”
The BBDC shipyard in the Brazilian state of Paraíba will carry the name Empresa de Docagens Pedra do Ingá (EDPI). It will be located inside the harbor near the Port of Cabedelo in the municipality of Lucena and is positioned close to major shipping lanes in the Atlantic basin. The 600,000 square meter facility will be purpose-built for ship repairs, and its two graving docks and hydrolift facilities will be capable of drydocking any ship in the world merchant fleet.
This effort encompasses one year of labor and the associated travel, basic life support services, and force protection services to operate and support the facility.
Work will be performed at Umm Qasr Naval Base, Iraq, and is expected to be completed October 2016.
Foreign military sales funding in the amount of $10,976,701 will be obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC, is the contracting activity.
The awards are for work on the USS Milius (DDG 69) and USS Cape St. George (CG 71).
The Milius award is a $53,633,494 modification to previously awarded, cost-plus-award-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N00024-11-C-4408) for the ship’s fiscal 2015 extended selected restricted availability.
An extended selected restricted availability includes the planning and execution of depot-level maintenance, alterations, modernizations, and modifications that will update and improve the ship’s military and technical capabilities.
Work will be performed in San Diego, and is expected to be completed by December 2016.
Fiscal 2015 other procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $33,527,206; and fiscal 2015 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $20,106,288 will be obligated at time of award. Contract funds in the amount of $20,106,288 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The shipyard’s award for the Cape St. George is a $50,625,133 modification to previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee, incentive-fee contract (N00024-11-C-4400) for the ship’s fiscal 2015 extended drydocking selected restricted availability.
An extended drydocking selected restricted availability includes the planning and execution of depot-level maintenance, alterations and modifications that will update and improve the ship’s military and technical capabilities.
This modification includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value to $51,016,432.
Work will be performed in San Diego, and is expected to be completed by September 2016.
Fiscal 2015 operations and maintenance (Navy) funding in the amount of $48,059,799; working capital funding in the amount of $2,392,527; and fiscal 2015 other procurement (Navy) funding in the amount of $172,807 will be obligated at time of award.
Contract funds in the amount of $48,059,799 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The Southwest Regional Maintenance Center, San Diego, is the contracting activity for both awards.
AUGUST 20, 2015 — BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair, Norfolk, VA is being awarded a $22,590,026 firm-fixed-price contract for USS James E. Williams (DDG 95) fiscal 2016 drydocking selected restricted availability (DSRA).
AUGUST 5, 2015 — VT Halter Marine, Inc. has announced a number of management moves. They come less than two months after the appointment of Jack Prendergast as President and CEO following