A ship docked at Milaha Shipyard for routine repair.
Milaha Shipyard has emerged as one of the leading shipyards in the region. The Shipyard has serviced and repaired over 7,000 vessels of various types so far, showing Qatar’s growing role in global maritime sector.
The Shipyard is one of the oldest and most active in the region. It receives vessels from both Qatari and foreign customers, and provides repair and maintenance services to a wide range of vessels.
“Milaha Ship Repair & Fabrication facility started operations in 1978 and today has become one of the GCC leading shipyard with more than 7,000 ships repaired,” said Milaha in a tweet yesterday.
Over the past about 40 years the Yard has handled a wide variety of vessels such as offshore vessels, cargo vessels, passenger ferries, yachts, dhows, naval & coast guard vessels.
The Shipyard covers a space of 150,000 sqm and strategically located close to the new Hamad Port. Its continuously growing client list includes local, regional & international shipping companies.
Early this month ‘Halul 61’ vessel docked at the Shipyard for routine repair and maintenance operations.
The shipyard is expected to maintain its growth momentum in coming years as the global shipbuilding industry is likely to witness steady growth. Qatar has taken many efforts to boost its maritime sector. Country’s Hamad Port, which is the largest port in the region, is witnessing continuous increase in the cargo movement.
Increase in maritime activity in Qatar will benefit all the sectors including shipbuilding and repairing sector.
“The key factors driving the growth of the market are global seaborne trade, improved economic growth, rising urbanization and increase in global steel production,” said the Global Shipbuilding Market Report. “Some of the noteworthy trends and developments of this industry are green shipbuilding technology, advanced outfitting, ship launching airbag, LNG fueled engines and solar and wind powered ships,” it added.
The Milaha Shipyard offers dry docking, maintenance and afloat repairs capabilities to several kind of ships ranging from offshore, shipping lines, navy and yachts. The shipyard has two Floating Docks with a lifting capacity of 3,800 tonnes and 8,500 tonnes. It has also a Synchrolift with a lifting capacity of 700 tonnes and berthing facilities that can accommodate vessels of up to 200 metre in length and 7 metre in draught.
The shipyard offers also non marine services, such as heavy fabrication and shutdowns, speacialised manpower supply workshop services and maintenance.
