As per the press communiqué Aberdeen, Scotland, based ship repair and maintenance specialist, Dales Marine Services, has expanded its operations on Scotland’s east coast. It has decided to lease a dry dock at the Port of Leith and a workshop at Montrose. Maurice Nicol, Managing Director, told that the main purpose of leasing the additional facilities is to reinforce the company’s current activities and open up significant new opportunities.
He further said that it took five long years for the company to regenerate the dry dock at Aberdeen. Now it has the skills, experience and the wider resources to build on that success. It is informed that Dales Marine has been based in Aberdeen since 1991 and has leased its two acre harbor site and 112 m x 21 m x 6.5 m dry dock since 2004. It already has more than 20 vessels booked for dry docking at Aberdeen in 2010.
Dales Marine is now operating the Imperial dry dock at Leith on an initial 10-year lease from Forth Ports and is to invest around UKP 250,000 in an upgrade and overhaul, including gate seals, hydraulics, pipework, sluices and pumps.It says the dock will be available for use by March 1. The facility incorporates purpose-built offices and workshop and the 168 m x 21.3 m x 7.7 m dry dock which can take two vessels, such as oil-related safety or supply ships, and can accommodate deeper draft ships than Aberdeen.
