In the shipyard "Hat-san Shipyard" from Altinova in Turkey, the preparations for the towing of the large floating dock that was bought there a few months ago by the company "Adriatic 42" from Tivat - the new concessionaire of the shipyard port in Bijela - are coming to an end.
The floating dock, 180 meters long and 37 meters wide, has a carrying capacity of 10.000 tons, and in the past months in Turkey it has been renovated and branded with the colors and markings of its new owner, and will soon embark on a tugboat tugboat for a journey of several hundreds of nautical miles to its new home - Boke Bay. of Kotor.
As "Vijesti" unofficially learns, the arrival of the dock in Bijela is expected around June 26, and in the meantime, "Adriatic 42" has already prepared all the necessary infrastructure conditions here in terms of pylons and the so-called fortress through which the dock will be fixed in the position where it will work.
In the future, this important technical vessel will be the backbone of the capacity of the new overhaul shipyard for super and megayachts in Bijela, which is being opened there by the company "Adriatic 42". That company did not announce the value of this investment, except that the builder of the dock they bought was the Turkish shipyard "Hat - San Shipyard" from Altinova.
The floating dock is 180 meters long, 37 meters wide and has a carrying capacity of 10.000 tons, which allows it to accommodate the largest yachts in the world. For its use and safe operations, "Adriatic 42" has already hired several experienced workers from Bijela who managed the work of floating docks in the former Adriatic shipyard, which went bankrupt.
The Tivat company acquired a second-hand dock and built it for its own use in 2017 by the "Hat-San" shipyard from the city of Altinovo on the coast of the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey. The dock arriving in Bijela is also equipped with two mobile electrohydraulic cranes with a capacity of 10 tons each. Such docks in Turkey are usually built according to project documentation certified by the renowned Japanese ship register NKK (Nippon Kaiji Kyokai).
This dock will be the first vessel of its kind to arrive in Montenegro after 1981, when the former military shipyard Arsenal received a newly built floating dock with a capacity of 3.500 tons, which was then built in Trogir for the people of Tivat.
The Government of Montenegro granted a 30-year concession to the Bijela Shipyard. The concession was given to a consortium consisting of the company "Drydocks World", part of the "DP World Group" from the United Arab Emirates and "Adriatic Marinas - Porto Montenegro", and they formed the joint company "Adriatic 42" which will implement the project. According to this arrangement, the concessionaire is obliged to implement an investment program worth at least 20 million euros within three years of taking over the location in Bijela.
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