UK-based ship repairer and marine engineering services provider SMS has completed its first major high-speed craft refit in France this June
UK-based ship repairer and marine engineering services provider SMS has completed its first major high-speed craft refit in France this June. SMS carried out the scheduled week-long refurbishment on Condor Ferries’ Condor Rapide, docking the ferry on the Port Normands Associe’s ship lift (known as a syncrolift) at the Port of Cherbourg. The team completed minor structural repairs, electrical upgrades and work on the Wärtsilä waterjet propulsion system on the ferry’s port outer main engine. “As Condor Ferries we were impressed with both the speed and quality of SMS’s works and its coordination on the ground in Cherbourg,” said Rob Loder, ship manager for Condor Ferries. “It was a planned, challenging project and all parties performed well.” Manufactured by Rolls-Royce, the syncrolift is 90 metres long and 32 metres wide and can lift vessels weighing up to 3,000 tonnes.
