Transpetro President in Lisnave

The Senator Sergio Machado, President of Transpetro, the company that operates the Oil Fleet owned by Petrobras, together with his Consultants, including the Director responsible for the Technical fleet, visited Lisnave Shipyards.

During the visit, the Senator Sérgio Machado was received by the Board Management of Lisnave in order to discuss a possible co-operation between the two companies, namely to start again with repair works of his fleet ships, that will be in a near future on the North Atlantic. It was also addressed to Lisnave the invitation of co-operation with Petrobrás and other major Brazilian groups on the development of Ship Industry in the Southern Hemisphere.

Together with the Lisnave Management, the visitors made a visit to the facilities, and made very positive considerations about the Shipyard.

The visitors finished the yard tour with a visit to the vessel “Nordic Spirit” managed by the company “TK”, but owed by Transpetro. The vessel is suffering a very complex maintenance operation in all the propulsion system, specially on the variable pitch propeller and on the bow and aft thrusters and dynamic positioning (azimuthal) thrusters.

BERGESSEN OFFSHORE

On March 28th , Lisnave received the visit of the representative of the Norwegian company Bergessen Offshore. This company has Oil Rigs and FPSO operating on the North Sea.

this visit had a Technical Audit character with the purpose to check Lisnave’s capabilities to operate inthis market segment.

The Audit had a positive conclusion therefore it can be a new work opportunity for Lisnave.

After grounding in Venezuela " Kim Jacob " come to LISNAVE

After decision of underwriters of the tanker " Kim Jacob " had to be followed to invite 10 European yards to come in with an offer for the repair of the bottom damage the Portuguese yard LISNAVE was able to book the respective order on 1. March 2006 in Hamburg.

The vessel did arrive already one day later at the cleaning station close to the yard at Setubal in order to remove the slop and to get into gas free condition. One day later the vessel was shifted to the shipyard.

For the renewal of about 400 tons of steel in the bottom area a repair time of 34 days have been agreed between partners.

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• After grounding in Venezuela " Kim Jacob " come to LISNAVE

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LISNAVE receives one of the biggest Container Vessels of the World

“Georg Maersk“ did enter Lisnave dd 21 on 20 April 2006 in order to get her last underwater paint protection. The vessel - owned by the big Danish shipping group A.P. Moeller Maersk – was built and just finished at the Odense Steel Shipyard in Danemark – also belonging to the Maersk group – and is so far one of the biggest container vessels that has ever been built in Denmark.

Georg Maers drydocked at Lisnave

The “Georg Maersk“, with 367 meters total length, 42,8 meters beam, 13,13 meters of max. draft, main engine with 93..000 BHP, and 97.933 tons of gross tonnage, is the most modern container vessel in the world, and belongs to the fifth generation of the post panamax plus vessels, can transport over 7.000 TEU’s and is making its first trip to Portugal in order to finalize painting at LISNAVE, in Mitrena Shipyard, Setúbal.

The “Georg Maersk“ Captain is female, Miss Michele de Linde Gladwin and Chief Engineer is Mr. Peter Mortensen.

As owner and building yard wanted to protect vessel`s underwater hull with a new Silicon paint system in order to keep her afloat for a period of 5 years without docking, Odense shipyard contacted Lisnave and asked for assistance in using one drydock for application of the last coats in Portugal. From the owners point there are two reasons for having choosen Lisnave for this job:

• first of all Portugal can grant this time of the year the much better and stable weather conditions compared with Denmark;

• second and apart from weather, Lisnave has got already serious experience with this new painting system especially on a few other container vessels of the Maersk group which have been under repair in Lisnave during the last few months.