Standard Coaster Converted into Cement Carrier
However, there are ways to achieve all three courses and one of them is converting an existing semi-completed hull into a tailor-made solution. Repurposed This is exactly what VEKA Shipyard, based in Lemmer, did for their latest newbuiding Cembrook. There is a number of semi-finished coasters in the Netherlands, which were never completed due to the crisis in the short-sea shipping market. Several of these have been successfully repurposed, for example as a fishfood carrier for fish farming or as a roll-on-roll-off (RoRo) vessel for windmill components. The latest to add to this growing list is Cembrook, a dedicated cement carrier built for Brise Schifffahrt (Germany).






