Halifax Shipyard
Our largest facility and head office site.
Halifax Shipyard can provide you with a complete range of services for newbuild up to 120m and ship repair for vessels up to Panamax size beam. It is home to the biggest floating docks and the largest machine shop in Eastern Canada.
Halifax’s deep water, ice free port is a natural shipbuilding site, offering 24/7 access. It is the second largest natural harbour in the world.
With its comprehensive array of fabrication shops, outfit shops, machine shop and access to a large extensive local sub-contractor community, Halifax Shipyard has the wide-ranging capabilities to undertake your project, big or small.
Halifax Shipyard covers 18,000m2 of water frontage with three docks including one Panamax and one graving dock. Our build methodologies incorporate as much undercover construction, outfitting and painting as possible, assuring the quality of your vessel.
All our facilities are certified members of ISPS and operate 365 days a year.
Halifax Shipyard
- Builder of complex vessels such as Anchor Handling Tug/Supply vessels and Navy/Coast Guard Vessels
- Ship repair and conversion for vessels up to Panamax size
- Two fully equipped floating docks for vessels up to Panamax beam
- Over 480m of service piers
- ISO 9001:2000 registered
- Burning Shop (DNC underwater oxygen plasma & oxy-acetylene machines)
- Plate Shop (183m x 23m x 12m, complete with panel line & shell jigs)
- Outfit Steel Shop
- Module Shop (162m x 30m x 22m, 90t lift & heavy load transfer system)
- Turntable
- Launchway (max length about 150m, with 65t berth crane)
- Pipe Shop (500m2)
- Sheet Metal Shop, QA, Test & Trials
- Ship Repair Offices & Owner’s Reps
- Machine Shop (full range of machine tools)
- Machine Shop Wharf (100m, with about 9.1m water depth)
- Pier 6&7 (338m, with about 8m water depth)
- Graving Dock (173m x 23.5m, 8m over the sill)
- Scotia Dock II (with 25,400t lift, 183m long x 31.5m open width x 8m over the blocks. Wingwall cranes 15t)
- Nova Dock ( Panamax dock with 36,000t lift, 257m long, x 38m open width x 9m over the blocks. Two 40t wingwall cranes)
- Warehouse (1,700m2, computer-controlled)
- Steelyard
- Main Offices (Management, Estimating, Engineering, Video-Conference facilities)
- Client Facilities & Security
- Warehouse & Joiner Shop
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