BLRT Grupp, the listed Estonian ship repairer that carries out refits of cruise ferries, says it has acquired a floating dock from the Adriatic Shipyard Bijela in Montenegro, which will be installed in the Western Shipyard, located in Klaipeda.
A new dock with dimensions of 235 meters in length and 45 meters in width will be the largest in the Baltic States. It opens up new opportunities for the ship owners and shipyards in repair and modernization of Panamax- type ships.
BLRT Grupp comprises three ship repair yards in Estonia, Lithuania and Finland. It has one dry dock and eight floating docks and the newly acquired dock is the group’s ninth and the largest floating dock.
“One of the main task of developing strategy of the ship repair yards, belonging the BLRT Grupp, is providing services to the ship owners at the most favorable site. Nowadays the concern can service the big vessels in its dry dock in Turku Repair Yard in Finland, which is the largest in the Northern Europe. From now on this opportunity will also receive the ship owners in Klaipeda,“ said Igor Kond, the Member of the Board of BLRT Grupp and the Chairman of the Council of Directors of Ship Repair Yards.
"An acquisition of dock is one part of a joint project of BLRT Grupp and Klaipeda State Port, started in 2015, which is dedicated to development of the capacity of the port infrastructure, BLRT Grupp and other operators, located in the port,“ he added.
