China: CIC Changxing Shipyard Repairs MV Cohiba Despite Bad Weather Conditions

The repair of M.V. Cohiba has been successfully accomplished by CIC Changxing Shipyard recently. The owners have expressed their satisfaction on production quality, repair period and business services provided by the shipyard. This is the first step of the successful co-operation between the owners and CIC-Shipyards.

The Shipowner is a world famous Greek shipping company whose dry bulk tonnage capacity remains top 10 in the world for years. As for the owners’ first repair project awarded to CIC Changxing shipyard, they paid high attention to this project and sent a technical supervision team of four superintendents to the shipyard. CIC-Shipyards had made lots of preparation to bid the tender. Depending on good brand advantage, excellent facilities & equipment, and powerful technical strength, CIC-Shipyards finally stood out from the other well-known domestic shipyards.

The vessel’s repair scope included regular docking items, sand blasting & painting of cargo holds and some machinery repair. There were several days of thundershower, badly affecting the repair schedule of the subject vessel whose main project was sandblasting and painting. However, the shipyard made joint effort, reinforced the project organization, commenced the sandblasting & coating by catching the interval of raining and finished the repair on schedule by overwhelming the bad weather which won the owner’s high praise. Based on the excellent performance of our company, the owners have given us the firm booking of another vessel for the drydocking & repair and expressed their full confidence on the long-term co-operation between them and CIC-Shipyards.

Technical Data

Vessel type: Bulk Carrier

Gross tonnage: 88,930 tons

Summer DWT: 174,234 tons

Length: 289 m

Beam: 45 m

Draught: 10.3 m

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Source: cic-shipyards, September 15, 2011