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areas. The site now has 11 tenants, offering a complete range of marine services and employing over 60 people, including boat repair specialists, GRP fabricators, boat painters and engineers to a dedicated mast refurbishment business, and we’ re passionate about expanding the facility to increase opportunities for marine companies.”
Fleet maintenance capabilities
When it comes to contracts, it’ s clear that UK Docks has a strong relationship with the MoD. Having worked on its smaller vessels, the company won its first ship repair maintenance contract for the MoD in 2018. Maintaining three globally operating vessels, HMS Protector, HMS Enterprise, and HMS Echo, the company provides technical global fleet time support to these vessels to maintain availability, operational capability, safety, and environmental protection.
“ Today, we look after the Batch 2 Offshore Patrol Vessels, supporting the requirements of five vessels: Forth, Medway, Trent, Tamar, and Spey, as well as HMS Protector,” Jonathan states.“ The latter is a unique ship that sails the waters of the Antarctic and the Southern Hemisphere, and she is currently traveling from the South Atlantic with a maintenance period due to begin in June.
“ We’ re also working for Babcock and BAE Systems, with around 50 small vessels from these companies in our facilities at any one time. This work is very different to commercial ship repairs, as it requires a specific type of maintenance. As mentioned previously, we also operate a contract with Brunvoll AS, a Norwegian company that we support across the globe for all types of ships from cruise ships to supply vessels.”
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