The official opening ceremony of Damen Shipyards Sharjah FZE (DSS) – the newest shipyard of Albwardy Marine Engineering – was held on 13 January. 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 new-builds and Albwardy’s conversions, dry-dockings and repairs.
Damen Shipyards Sharjah is conveniently located in the Sharjah Hamriyah free zone. The spacious new yard, located on a huge 284,000m2 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 120m x 26.5m ship-lift with a 5,200-ton capacity, and is connected to 8 dry-berths, each of which is 125m in length. It also features a fully enclosed blasting and painting shed and an under-cover new build construction hall. There is also extensive adjacent repair space, with 1,200m of quay with a water depth up to 9m.
DSS has the facilities to repair and construct all type of vessels, and has recently delivered tugs, workboats, support vessels, dredgers, landing craft, floating docks, barges and pontoons. The yard has contracts for two multicats, two shoalbusters, two barges, one aluminium crew boat and ten ASD tugs.