Dormac extends ship repair footprint to CT

TERRY HUTSON DURBAN SHIP repair and engineering company Dormac is in the process of acquiring ownership of Cape Town’s Globe Engineering, which has been a leading ship repair company in the Mother City for over 80 years. The purchase, subject to due diligence and approval from the Competitions Commission, will give Dormac a large footprint in the Western Cape where Globe has a large, well- equipped workshop facility adjacent to the Sturrock dry dock. In recent years Globe has benefited from the growth in the oil and gas industry along the West African coast by attending to specialist vessels including oil rigs, work boats, barges and specialised vessels for the diamond industry. A recent major contract completed by Dormac in Durban involved a complete rewiring and cleanup of the engine room of the bulker Chinese Eagle, after the ship was towed into port following a devastating fire at sea 1000 miles out in the Indian Ocean. The repair took Dormac just 26 days – three ahead of the contracted 29 days. The fully laden ship was repaired alongside one of the new deepwater Point berths because it was too deep for the Bayhead repair quays.