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Ship Repair

Passenger ship Kossuth before repairs

As a renowned European shipyard, Slovenské lodenice Komárno, a.s. (SLKB Shipyard) performs the following types of ship repairs:

  • complete shaft repairs
  • repair and replacement of pipe systems
  • hull repairs, welding, sheet metal work, manufacturing of spare parts
  • sandblasting, painting and conservation works
  • repair of deck mechanisms
  • installation of navigation systems
  • elaboration of repair, design and conversion documentation

 

Passenger ship Kossuth on the ship liftThanks to the size of our ship lift, vessels of the following dimensions can be repaired:

  • Maximum length: 120 meters
  • Maximum breadth: 18.5 meters (12 meters without using hydraulic trolleys)
  • Maximum weight: 2,000 tons (3,000 tons without using hydraulic trolleys)

By using hydraulic trolleys the vessels can be transported to one of our parking places. The parking places are equipped with cranes as follows:

  • two 120-meter-long parking places equipped with a 27.5-ton portal crane
  • one 120-meter-long parking place equipped with a five-ton frame crane
  • one 110-meter-long parking place equipped with a 32-ton and an eight-ton frame crane

Passenger ship Kossuth in front of the assembly halls

Vessels can be moved by trolleys to our assembly halls equipped with 10, 12.5, 25 and 50-ton overhead traveling cranes. All repairs can be carried out in our in-house facilities even in harsh weather conditions. The maximum size of vessels that can be repaired in our halls is the following:

  • Maximum length 110 meters
  • Maximum breadth 16,5 meters
  • Maximum height 12 meters
  • Maximum weigh 2000 tons

 

Tug boat being repairedOur shipyard also has a 212-meter-long repair quay equipped with a 25-ton crane and a 40-ton crane. All repair works can be carried out at the quay without the need for dry docking the ship.

Repair works have been carried out at SLKB Shipyard for more than 110 years, from the time of its establishment in 1898.    There were times when there was a downturn in shipbuilding; consequently, ship repair became the primary activity of the shipyard during those times.

Basically, it was a long tradition in ship repairs on the Danube and a demand for the repair of ships owned by modern shipping companies at the turn of the 20th century that called for the establishment of our shipyard in the heart of Europe.

After the wars the shipyard’s production profile changed and it produced mainly equipment for power plants and industrial plants. Construction works for the power plant in Nováky and for the ironworks in Košice could be mentioned as examples.

After the change of regime in 1989 further services were included in our production activities, such as the restoration of old vessels for collectors and other businesses, or the construction of floating hotels.

Today SLKB, a truly European shipyard, still offers a wide range of shipbuilding and other non-shipbuilding services. High quality of the above described repair and restoration services is guaranteed by the fact that our staff have several decades of experience in the field and we also have our own trade school. Furthermore, our shipyard always adopts the latest shipbuilding technologies.