Feature 9 | SOUTH EAST ASIA Indonesian yard picks up conversion deal
T e Pertama yard in Batam, Indonesia, has secured a landmark order for a livestock carrier conversion.
conversion contract worth around US$60 million. T e customer is a Saudi Arabian company Hmood Al Ali Al Khalaf Trading and the contract involves converting a 2300TEU container ship at DDW-SEA’s Pertama yard in Batam, Indonesia. Utilising 5500tonnes of steel, and incorporating specially pre-fabricated pens
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rydocks World South East Asia (DDW-SEA) has secured a groundbreaking livestock carrier
with total area of about 25,000m2 , the livestock
carrier Awassi Express has been designed by a Denmark-based firm, Corral Line. According to DDW-SEA, the converted ship will be equipped to ‘safely, comfortably and humanely’ transport livestock in conditions far exceeding the minimum safety and animal welfare requirements stipulated by AMSA Australia and other world authorities. The Awassi Express, which is due for delivery in the last quarter of the year, is
not DDW-SEA’s only conversion project currently underway. The company has also been active in the off shore conversion sector and work is in progress upgrading a crane barge to an accommodation barge for Leighton Off shore. DDW-SEA has four shipyards in
Singapore, Graha, Nanindah and Pertama. Collectively these encompass 29 building berths, eight fl oating docks, and a specialised rig building yard. SRCT
Colombo gets more OSV work Off shore business has given Colombo Dockyard a liſt .
than in the equivalent months of last year. However a bright spot for the yard has been its success in securing several Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) contracts. Notable visitors have included Bourbon Viking, for Bourbon Off shore, France; Malaviya 23, for the Indian firm Great Offshore and OSV Halani-1, a DPV class 3 vessel owned by the Halani group of India, which was docked for major retrofi t repairs. Colombo has struck up a particularly
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good working relationship with the Bourbon group and has also docked the
verall, shiprepair activity at the Colombo Dockyard in Sri Lanka in the fi rst half of 2010 was lower
OSVs Bourbon Thale, Bourbon Thera, Bourbon T eytis and Bourbon T emis in the recent past. According to Darshana Chandrasekera,
head of marketing: “We have created a brand of service catering to this niche market. T e shipyard’s facilities have been enhanced to accommodate this type of vessel and other related services have been upgraded aſt er careful study of the OSV market’s requirements.” T e work package for Bourbon Viking
included overhauling its azimuth thruster, and both the stern and bow thrusters; the complete overhaul of the two main engines, including injectors, turbochargers
and vibration dampers; pulling out both propeller shaſt s and renewing the seal units; and other routine drydocking works. Colombo Dockyard has recently
upgraded available machinery, through the addition of some hydro-blasting units. T is should help boost capacity and also speed up surface preparation work, Mr Chandrasekera adds. Looking forward, Colombo Dockyard
says the second half of the year looks positive with a number of significant jobs already lined up. However while the company believes the worst is behind it, owners are still looking to minimise repair spending in the short term at least. SRCT
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