The 21.00m Landing Craft ‘Helen Rice’ built for Inverlussa Marine Services has been launched, Macduff has carried out an incline test and the vessel is due to start her trials in the coming week, she is expected to perform well. The vessel designed with a deck layout for mooring work is also capable of carrying 90T of deck cargo with a capacity for 3x 20ft containers and is suited to carry out general fish farm service duties.

The 19.00m Pilot Vessels being built by Colombo Dockyard has had a first delivery of two vessels to their owners the Colombo Port Authority who will operate the vessels at the Port of Colombo to transport pilots from shore to ship. The vessels achieved a service speed of 22 knots and performed well during trials and have been designed to give a high degree of stability even in adverse weather conditions. Macduff and Colombo Dockyard are pleased the vessels have been handed over successfully and look forward to future collaboration.

To see further information on the delivery follow the link to the Colombo Dockyard website.

The 34.00m Stern Trawler is a new design developed in cooperation between Macduff Ship Design and local boat builder Macduff Shipyards, the vessel has arrived at the yard to begin final outfitting, the vessel is to be named Endeavour V and is on schedule for delivery toward the end of 2020.

The 37.00m Harvest Vessel being build for Cooke Aquaculture by Ship Building in Asia is progressing well with a good portion of the steelwork completed. This vessel represents the continuing working relationship with Macduff and the the SBA yard in Veitnam.

The 14.00m Workboat building at Cheoy Lee Shipyards has been taken for a preliminary trial and has performed well and as expected. The vessel requires a few finalising finishing touches before undertaking official trials.

The 19.00m Pilot Vessel built at Colombo Dockyard for Sri Lanka Ports Authority has been launched, this is the first of two vessels to be built to operate at the Port of Colombo. The vessel is on schedule for finalising and trials, with Macduff looking forward to assisting Colombo with the second vessel and a potential third build to the same design.