Shipdock Bags Major Upgrading Contracts
Shipdock has recently secured four major contracts for the upgrading and maintenance of the jack up vessels GMS Endurance, GMS Endeavour, Seajack Leviathan and Seajack Zaratan. These vessels, equipped with canada goose factory outlet elevating legs of over 100m in height, will be keeping the shipyard busy throughout the summer months.
Shipdock has managed to considerably increase its activities in the offshore market since the very first jack up barge, the Danish based A2SEA Sea Jack, came into the yard approximately canada goose outlet store uk two years ago. The main task then carried out at Shipdock was to lengthen the legs in order to keep the lower cable sheeves out of the mud in elevating mode.
Until some months ago, Shipdock expected to be https://www.chinese-sharpei.de working on one or two jack ups per year. Because of Canada Goose Jackets the rapidly growing wind park construction activities in the nearby North Sea waters, the total for this year is canada goose uk shop already standing at four of these canada goose outlet nyc very specialised vessels!
The most important jobs that the new contracts require are:
manufacture and installation of new crane pedestals
installation of heavier cranes
reinforcement of supporting deck structuresmanufacture and installation of winch foundations
lengthening of legs (on the GMS Endeavour)
general project mobilisation work
Senior project manager at Shipdock, Tjeerd Schulting, canada goose outlet reviews is justifiably proud that Shipdock has been chosen for these important Canada Goose Outlet new contracts: “Don’t think that it’s all so easy over the years we have worked hard to build up a solid reputation for being extremely well equipped for projects like this. Other important factors are that we canada goose outlet offer a guarantee of work to all required safety standards; for North Sea operations we are, geographically, in a very attractive location and Shipdock canada goose outlet uk has the right canada goose outlet online canada goose coats on sale sized docks and repair berths equipped with heavy duty cranes; and canada goose outlet shop that is all topped off by our world class package of high quality workmanship, competitive pricing, on time delivery and full service on site.”
Tjeerd goes on to include a couple of Shipdock’s ’secret weapons’: “Our sister company, Niron canada goose outlet canada goose clearance uk sale Staal, is located within Shipdock’s premises and provides cheap Canada Goose dedicated steel construction and heavy machining facilities canada goose outlet online uk to support canada goose outlet parka Shipdock, where necessary, on all projects. Finally, the broad diversity of tasks on the jack up uk canada goose outlet vessels canada goose outlet illustrates the competence and flexibility of Shipdock’s dedicated staff. When canada goose uk outlet it comes to repair and conversion, the decisive factor is canada goose outlet always the experience and enthusiasm of the people who are actually doing the job.”.