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Boiler work in progress on FPSO Aquila at Drydocks World Dubai.
Business is clearly buoyant for the
company and this happy state of affairs looks set to continue into next year. Mr Jordan adds: “Our workshop and technicians are fully employed on various projects up until the end of the year and we already have some substantial contracts in place for 2011. I see 2011 much as a continuation of this year with a lot of the repair and refurbishment work coming from the LNG sector and not the general or container shipping sectors.” Te planned expansion into Abu Dhabi, Oman and Qatar should also result in a steady increase in business, he believes. SCRT
DMC contracts signed
Two key leases have been signed, signalling that Dubai Maritime City is taking shape as a repair location.
term agreement with Drydocks World Dubai to develop a new facility within the industrial zone of Dubai Maritime City (DMC). The agreement covers an area of more than 27,000m2
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be leased to Grandweld, part of the GMMOS group, for 25 years. As well as doubling Grandweld’s
shipbuilding capacity, investment at DMC will give the company extra capacity for docking larger vessels at a new repair facility that will provide better access to vessels trading in the Arabian Gulf. Currently Grandweld operates at the Al Jadaf Shipyard in Dubai, where there are restrictions on vessel size, and it is expected that activity carried out here will transfer to DMC in due course. Meanwhile another Al Jadaf tenant,
Goltens, has also signed a 25 lease, this time for a 23,000m2
site at DMC,
for the development of a repair and maintenance facility. The new workshop and repair/maintenance centre will become Goltens’ Middle East hub and
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he UAE-based shipbuilding, repair and conversion specialist, Grandweld, has signed a long
which will
Grandweld’s existing facility in Al Jadaf.
will be substantially larger than the current premises that Goltens has at Al Jadaf. An increased business portfolio,
together with an expected future head count considerably larger than the current 520 persons, has made expansion necessary, while Goltens
also sees the move as an opportunity to modernise its workshop and create a more flexible and efficient workspace. Goltens will start construction on the new repair and maintenance centre immediately and hopes to move into the new Dubai facilities by the third quarter 2011. SCRT
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