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US shipyard to restart cruise repair with new drydock
An artist’s impression of Vigor’s new drydock
US shipyard Vigor Industrial will re-enter the cruise ship repair market after a 13-year hiatus after purchasing what it claims is the largest drydock in the US. The company reached an
agreement with Daoda Marine Heavy Industry (DDHI) to build the floating drydock for US$40 million. The drydock, which will be situated in Portland, Oregon state, will be 293m long, with an inside width of 57m and a lifting capacity of 81,280 tonnes. DDHI will build the drydock at its facility in Jiangsu Provence, China. It is scheduled for delivery in March 2014 and will start operating soon after. Explaining the decision to purchase the drydock, Vigor
Cruise operators boost third party business The use of third party logistics (3PL) and ship management companies by the cruise industry has been boosted thanks to contracts recently struck between Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCC) and Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) and between
V.Ships Leisure and river cruise operator Lüftner Cruises. Freight forwarder K+N scooped a contract with RCC to help it manage its international sea consignments and K+N’s Miami branch now manages sea transport and provides customs-clearance overseas, including coordination of on- time alongside-ship deliveries for three of RCI’s cruise brands – Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises and
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Industrial vice president for shiprepair Rene Doiron told PST: “The US West Coast has lost capacity as other drydocks have gone out of service. At the same time, demand to service all types of large vessels remains strong in the region. In light of our financial strength, these factors made it a great time for Vigor to invest in a new drydock of this size.” He added: “The cruise industry
was a major factor in this decision. Our Portland shipyard was a major hub for cruise ship maintenance and repair for about 20 years. We still have many factors that made us a solid choice back then – a large highly skilled workforce, a great location and extensive facilities that
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Meanwhile, as part of its expansion strategy to offer technical, crewing and hotel operation services to the river cruise market,
V.Ships Leisure – the passenger shipping arm of ship management company
V.Ships – has been appointed as technical manager of Lüftner Cruises’ Amadeus Symphony, which operates on the French rivers of Rhone and Saone. The146 passenger-vessel will be managed from
V.Ships Leisure’s Monaco office and the company said there was the possibility to have a second vessel in management next year.
Commenting on the new contract,
Dr Wolfgang Lüftner, owner of Austria- headquartered Lüftner Cruises was
allow us to handle any cruise ship that operates in the region.” He said Vigor left the cruise
industry in 2001 when both the company and industry were in a “different state”. He said the company had to make some “hard decisions in order to put the company back on a firm financial footing.” Vigor is currently in discussions
with several cruise lines but said it was not able to make details public. Mr Doiron said: “We will be targeting all cruise ships that are on the US West Coast. As ships make the transition between winter runs in Mexico and summer runs in Alaska, our Portland yard is ideally located to provide service.”
“certain we will achieve synergies utilising our combined know-how. We are particularly interested in learning from
V.Ships Leisure’s experience from the oceangoing cruise industry and shipping in general, covering areas like crewing, safety and quality and project management of refurbishments.”
Fincantieri launches new ship prototype Fincantieri shipyard has created a new cruise ship concept that allows more outside balcony cabins and open decks along with increased efficiency as a result of repositioning the enginerooms, casing and tanks to the middle of the ship. The concept is applicable to cruise ships of all sizes. ›››
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