Ship repair resumed at Mykolaiv Shipyard

20 October, 2023 Ship repair at Mykolaiv Shipyard. October 2023. Ukraine.

Photo credits: Smart Maritime Group The Mykolaiv site of the Smart Maritime Group company has resumed vessel repairs at the shipyard. Smart Maritime Group began operations after more than a year and a half.

The company said that the first "client" after a forced pause was a tugboat DELTA III, year of construction - 2006. Smart Maritime Group (SMG) specialists perform its scheduled maintenance. The complex of works includes cleaning and painting of the ship's hull, maintenance of the main mechanisms, in particular the engine and navigation system.

Ship repair at Mykolaiv Shipyard. October 2023. Ukraine.

Photo credits: Smart Maritime Group

"It is dangerous in the Ukrainian sea, so we cannot resume shipbuilding work, our foreign customers simply cannot safely reach us. But resuming repairs is already a good sign," said Dmitry Krasnikov, CEO of Smart Maritime Group. In 2021, SMG modernized 6 boats and repaired 51 vessels, increasing revenue by 17% to UAH 440 million.

But in 2022, due to a full-scale invasion of Russia, the company was forced to terminate previously concluded contracts, in particular, for the construction of two hulls for a company from the Netherlands, a full-fledged tug for a Ukrainian customer, and an agreement for the manufacture of metal structures. In 2017, at the Black Sea Shipyard (the Mykolaiv site of the Smart Maritime Group company), a naval diving vessel U700 Netishin of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was repaired. The contract value of this order was almost 6 million UAH.