Ship&Offshore | Issue 02/2024
Cammell Laird sees major increase in commercial repair work The UK’s west
Cammell Laird sees major increase in commercial repair work The UK’s west coast-based repairer Cammell Laird has seen a major upturn in its commercial repairs activities at the end of 2023 and the start of 2024 Source: Cammell Laird UK shipyard Cammell Laird saw a 50% increase in its commercial ship repair work towards the end of 2023 compared with the same time the year before, and has started 2024 with a bang, with a total of six vessels undergoing repair mid-January. The rush of commercial work at the end of 2023 saw the annual maintenance and drydocking of Mersey Ferries’ passenger ferry Royal Iris , the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co’s 1998-built Incat 96m wave-piercing catamaran fast ferry Manannan , Holland’s Boskalis Westminster Dredging’s 1978-built 1,300m3 capacity TSHD Deo Gloria and the 2015-built 4,500m3 capacity TSHD Freeway ; the RoPax ferry Lord of the Isles , owned by Scotland’s Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL) and operated by Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac), the 2018-built 4,500 dwt PSV Vos Patriot , owned by Holland’s VOS Offshore Services, and the 734gt 2010-built tug Svitzer Pembroke , owned by Danish global tug company Svitzer and operating out of the port of Milford Haven, in Wales....