Albwardy Marine Engineering opened the Damen Shipyards Sharjah FZE (DSS) in the Sharjah Hamryah Free Zone on 13 Jan 2014. In a joint venture between the Damen Shipyards Group and Albwardy Marine Engineering, the core activities at DSS will continue along the tried and trusted course of Damen newbuilds and Albwardy’s conversions, dry-dockings, and repairs.
The spacious new yard, on a 284,000sq m site, has direct and unrestricted access to the sea, and meets the highest standards of modern ship construction and repair.
The facility is equipped with a 120 x 26.5 m ship-lift, with a 5200 ton capacity and is connected to eight dry-berths, each of which is 125m long. It also features a fully-enclosed blasting and painting shed and an undercover newbuild construction hall.
There is also extensive adjacent repair space, with 1200m of quay with a water depth up to 9m.
DSS has the facilities to repair and construct all types of vessels, and recently delivered tugs, workboats, support vessels, dredgers, landing craft, floating docks, barges and pontoons. The yard can proudly display a healthy order book that presently consists of contracts for two multicats, two shoalbusters, two barges, one aluminium crew boat, and 10 ASD tugs.
The cooperation between the two family-owned companies is further strengthened with three existing yards in Dubai and Fujairah that will continue their focus on repairs, conversions and dry-dockings. They will also undertake rig repairs and conversions for the industry.
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