ASTANDER shipyard provides ship repair and conversion services with over 100 years of experience. It specializes in sophisticated conversion jobs and has a reputation for quality workmanship, safety standards, and customer satisfaction. The document describes two recent conversion projects at ASTANDER - the conversion of a platform supply vessel into a clam harvesting and processing vessel for Canadian company Clearwater Seafoods, and the installation of scrubbers on three ferries for British company Brittany Ferries to reduce emissions. Both projects were completed on tight timelines and involved significant modifications to accommodate new equipment and systems.

1. Spotlight nr 1 By Paul van Dijk 23 oktober 2015
SPOTLIGHT
ASTANDER provides first class facilities for
any kind of ship repairs and conversions.The
experience and skill gained during the more than
100 years presence of ASTANDER in
international ship building, conversion and repair
markets, together with the modernization and
updating programmes continuously being
developed in the yard, have put ASTANDER
among the leading yards in the world, specialized
in Conversions.
All kinds of repairs on all types of ships are
carried out at ASTANDER shipyard.
However, it is the high specialization reached in
upgradings and conversions what has made
ASTANDER a necessary reference point when
time comes for sophisticate conversion jobs.
QUALITY and SAFETY standards in ASTANDER,
together with a strong commitment to our
clients in the way of flexibility, transparency,
tailor make for the needs of every customer,
prices and completion times give ASTANDER its main strength: CUSTOMER SATISFACTION!
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Crown: the BELLE CARNELL.
BELLE CARNELL, a state-of –the art Clam Harvester and
Processing Factory Vessel
Astilleros de Santander (ASTANDER
Shipyard -
delivered this new clam harvester and
processing factory vessel to the well known
Canadian owners Clearwater Seafoods in
early July this year.
A five year old, 2.565 GT Platform Supply
Vessel was purchased by the Canadian
Company and taken to Astander, in the
Northern Coast of Spain, where the project
to convert it into Clearwater Seafoods Fleet
Jewel of the Crown was developed jointly.
Some of the major issues included in this
conversion:
Removal of the existing bulk cargo
equipment and systems.
Fabrication and installation of two new
factory decks, stern ramp, sponsons and
new
accommodation.
Installation of a new ammonia refrigeration
plant, new freezer tunnel and plate freezers.
Mounting new hydraulics systems to provide
service to the winches, fishing equipment
and factory systems.
The new accommodation meant new cabins,
rooms, A/C system, piping, electricity.
Entire modification of wheelhouse equipment
for navigation and fishing control.
Renewal of propellers.
Reconditioning of the gearboxes.
Installation of other new systems: two
gensets, a new dredger system, high
capacity and pressure dredging pumps, new
steam boiler to give service to the fish
processing plant, new incinerator, a new lift,
etc.
Some figures:
New accommodation block increased living
quarters from 16 to 41.
Total steel weight added for the new decks,
aft ramps, accommodation block, etc.: 530t
The new electrical installation onboard
involved 75.000 m of cabling.
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The vast experience and reputation of Astander in the conversion market had already called
the attention of Clearwater Seafoods for another conversion project in 2014: the successful
lengthening and conversion of the fishing trawler ATLANTIC LEADER into a scallop harvesting
and processing factory vessel definitely convinced the Canadian Company about the benefits
of working with Astander in such type of projects and this led to this second contract resulting
in their fleet Jewel of the Crown.
El Astillero Graving Dock 1 : 160 x 23,8 m
Cantabria Graving Dock 2 : 230,0 32,0 m
Aft thruster pit ( 21,5m x 7m x 1,5m )
Fwd thruster pit ( 15m x 10,5m x 1,5m)
Slipway : 85,0 x 14,1 m
Lifting capacity : 1x200t, 1x40t, 2x30t, 1x25t, 3x15t
Repair Berths : 680m
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Installation of scrubbers at ASTANDER for BRITTANY FERRIES
Brittany Ferries installs scrubbers in the
ferries Normandie, Cap Finistere and
Barfleur in Astander.
Cap Finistere & Barfleur, at berth in Astander
The French shipping company based in
Roscoff, Brittany Ferries, which is
continuously connecting Santander with the
United Kingdom since 1978, has recently
installed scrubbers in the vessels Normandie,
Cap Finistere, Barfleur in Astander Shipyard
in Santander, Spain.
Every Project
took just
over two
months, an
impressive
time-scale
for a first
off job of
this nature,
carried out in
vessels
which were
not designed and built considering the
possibility of scrubbers installation.
The design of the systems was carried out
by STX France (located in St-Nazaire and the
scrubbers, design and built by Green Tech,
now Yara Marine.
All the vessels were equipped with seven
separate scrubbers in total, one for each of
the four main engines and three covering the
auxiliaries.
The first vessel to be converted, the
Normandie (end of 2014) was followed by
the Cap Finistere (January 2015) and
Barfleur (March 2015) being all of them
powered by Wärtsilä four-stroke engines ‒
and receiving open loop scrubbers
Every conversion Project included the
fabrication of a
new pump room
to provide water
to the seven
scrubbers. The
casing had to
be emptied,
form the E/R to
the funnel,
removing the
silencers, in
some cases the
economizers
and a large
amount of piping, insulation and structures
that had to be re-routed or modified. This is
the critical part of the job, due to the space
constrains and the interferences between
the systems. Only an accurate planning and
resources management made possible
achieving the tight delivery time.
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The modifications also affected to the external shape of the funnels, which had to be
redesigned to host the new equipment. The new water systems passed from the new pump
room through the car decks and into the casing.
At this moment, the three vessels are in operation, with the new systems installed, making
Brittany Ferries one the leading ferry companies with a modernized and environmental friendly
fleet equipped with new systems to reduce the emissions.
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