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for servicing. Furthermore, the dock and synchro-elevator space are rented to maximise the facility utilisation and support the emerging local commercial ship repair industry. The Mount Hope shipyard, in addition
to primarily providing repair and modification services, also gets involved in new construction. In 2004, it built a 16.2mtr, 24-person, aluminium launch to transport canal personnel; and in 2005, it completed the construction of the 51mtr long drill barge ‘Baru’, equipped with four drilling rigs that can bore 26mtr deep holes in a single pass. With the Canal expansion and construction of a third set of locks, the division’s infrastructure (including the shipyard) may be expanded in the near future to continue providing the necessary support to the ongoing expansion project and long-term support to the expanded Canal. Talleres Industriales International
(TII) (
www.talleresindustriales.com) was established in 1969, with its headquarters in Colon. TII supplies all kinds of repairs and maintenance services to vessels at the Panama Canal area on both sides of the waterway. The company reach has expanded much beyond Panama’s borders, having created a customer base in most Latin American countries where Talleres Industriales has performed major ship repairs works – these include Ecuador, Peru, the Caribbean, and Central America. TII, which has 50 permanent highly
skilled employees and up to 150 part- time personel offers, three fully equipped supply boats to go alongside vessels at any anchorage and also a workshop in Colon. It is the only ISO 9001 quality approved yard in the area and has also been approved by all the major class
societies. The shipyard can perform main engine repairs either dockside or at anchorage, auxiliary engine repairs and overhauls, overhauls pumps turbos, heat exchangers, condensers, rewinding of AC and DC motors, compressed air system overhauls, refrigeration system repairs and also deck and topside area steel works replacement. It also provides underwater services and permanent repairs with class approved cofferdams. The facility had been extended to
11,000sq mtr from 7,000sq mtr and features the latest technology including a high-tech turbo charger division, underwater, welding and electrical divisions. TII has also opened a new facility at Balboa known as the Talleres Pacific Division. The company represents several ship
repair firms, such as Turboned Holland, Wesfalia, Germany amongst others and has 10 international agents to provide a close and friendly service to its customers around the world. Astillero Bayano,
(
www.astillerobayano.com) at the Port of Coquira, on the Bayano River, has facilities to service the local growing industry at international quality standards. Astillero Bayano has built, redesigned, and repaired tug boats, supply boats, barges and many other types of floating equipment used in Panama’s maritime industry. The yard is able to do repairs both on land or afloat. International Repair Services (INREPSA)
(
www.anchorpanama.com), located in the outskirts of Panama City, in Alcade Diaz, is a division of the Anchor Group whose companies represent the many faces of the shipping industry from chartering to sale and purchases. INREPSA, a ISO 9001 company, began operations in 1990 but moved to its present facilities early 2000.
These include over 600sq mtr of machine shop, 2,000sq mtr of covered welding and steel fabrication shop and an additional 2,000sq mtr of carpentry shop on a one- hectare premise. Three mobile container workshops bring flexibility to the highly professional team. INREPSA performs all types of welding work including deck, hull shell plating internal, steel structures and tanks, rewinding of any size for electric motors and generators, and also repairs to the main engines and auxiliary generators alongside at berth or anchorage.
Towage Compañía Maritima de Panama, (
www.cmpgb.com) through its subsidiary Tug Services Panama (TSP) is the operator of a fleet of tug boats placed on both sides of the Panama Canal. It is able to render prompt assistance for the safe manoeuvring and operation of Compania Maritima de Panama’s vessels, ensuring that bunkering and tug services are very reliable with little, if any, loss of time and minimising off hire or delay claims. TSP operates throughout the Pacific and
Atlantic coasts in Panama, in the Caribbean, up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South and Central America and in the West Indies. During its 10 years of operation, the company has performed salvage work, escort services, towage, docking/undocking and numerous other services where a tug is needed. TSP has a fleet of 10 tug boats that
include the VB Chagres, VB Michoacan, VB Gamboa, VB Coiba, VB Buccaneer, VB Atlantico, VB Campeador and VB Corsario in addition to other units that provide virtually immediate response time to attend any emergency, attendance and water rescues in local or international waters in the Pacific or Caribbean. •
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