Erhama Bin Jaber Al Jalahma Shipyard named Best Regional Shipyard at TMS Awards 2015
Nakilat - Keppel Offshore & Marine (N-KOM) has received the Shipyard/Ship repair Facility of the Year at The Maritime Standard Middle East and Indian Subcontinent Awards 2015. N-KOM’s Chief Executive Officer Mr. Chandru Rajwani received the award during the ceremony held on 9 November 2015 in Dubai.
This is the second award won by the shipyard for its successful undertaking of the world’s first world’s first M-type Gas Injection (ME-GI) retrofit project earlier this year, which involved modifying a Nakilat owned Q-MAX vessel, Rasheeda, to run on LNG as an alternative to marine diesel fuel. N-KOM had earlier won the Ship Repair Innovation award at the Seatrade Middle East, Indian Subcontinent & Africa Awards last month. The award is testament to the shipyard’s commitment to service excellence via its various commercial initiatives and facility developments, as well as its high safety and quality standards in delivering marine and offshore projects.
In additional to significantly reducing the vessel’s greenhouse gas emissions, additional benefits of the project also include the potential to increase mean time between maintenance, provide flexibility of fuel supply to react to market changes and reduced bunkering activities which in turn will offer operations and marine risk reduction.
