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Dales Marine expands facilities |
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
 Aberdeen-based ship repair and maintenance specialist, Dales Marine Services, has expanded its operations on Scotland’s east coast with the lease of a dry dock at the Port of Leith and a workshop at Montrose, in order to service growing demand in the sector.
Taking on the operation of the Imperial dry dock at Leith on an initial
10-year lease from Forth Ports, Dales Marine is to invest around
£250,000 in an upgrade and overhaul, including gate seals, hydraulics,
pipework, sluices and pumps, with the dock to be available for use by
the beginning of March.
Having relocated to Aberdeen in 1991 where it has leased the two acre
harbour site and dry dock since 2004, Dales Marine is continuing to
invest and expand to meet rising demand for services. With already more
than 20 vessels booked for dry docking at Aberdeen in 2010, the new dry
dock, which can take two vessels such as oil-related safety or supply
ships, and deeper draft ships than Aberdeen, will help cater for this.
Maurice Nicol, Managing Director, said: “The Port of Leith is helping
the business to grow and develop, with the length and depth of Imperial
Dock and the availability of plenty lay-by berths meaning that, in
addition to our usual range of ships, we will be able to handle larger
and longer-term projects.
Already utilising Montrose Harbour to carry out work onboard vessels
based there and on overspill projects during times when the port of
Aberdeen is particularly busy, Dales Marine’s aim to establish itself
in the area by leasing a workshop from Montrose Port Authority reflects
the potential of future development, “with the aim of making it a
stand-alone business,” according to Mr Nicol.
John Paterson, Chief Executive, Montrose Port Authority, said: “We are
very pleased to welcome Dales Marine to a ship repair workshop at a
site adjacent to North Quay. Dales Marine already works on ships
frequently at our lay-by berths and this facility will improve the
convenience to such ships. We are keen at Montrose to expand the ship
repair berthing and this development assists this aspiration for MPA,
Dales Marine and complementary contractors.”
Source: Shipmanagement International
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