The Adriatic 42 shipyard in Bijela carries out overhauls of two ships of the Navy of the Army of Montenegro (VCG), according to a contract worth EUR 700,000, which the company signed with the Ministry of Defense at the beginning of August.
Ten days ago in Bijela, a more extensive overhaul of the offshore tugboat PR-41 Orada was started in Bijela, while last Sunday the patrol boat P-105 Durmitor was lifted from the sea to the shore for docking and minor overhaul on the big so-called travel lift of the Adriatic 42 shipyard.
The work on both ships will last 45 days, and in addition to the standard dock work on the underwater part of the hull, propeller shafts, rudders and valves, it also includes ultrasonic measurement of the thickness of the ship’s feet at a thousand points per ship, replacement of possible weak parts of sheet metal on the ship’s hull, and in the case of the tugboat Orada and some other piping and work on the fuel tanks, i.e. in the propulsion complex of the ship, and on the ventilation and air conditioning system.
These are the first major investments in those two ships, which, along with the training ship Jadran, currently represent the bulk of the naval forces of the Croatian Navy. Since the closure of the former military shipyard Arsenal in Tivat in 2007, the Navy has been left almost without any serious logistical and technological support, which had a disastrous effect on the integrity of its vessels, and thus on the level of combat readiness of this type of VCG.
With the opening of the Adriatic 42 shipyard in Bijela, which is supported by a consortium of the renowned shipbuilding corporation Drydock World Dubai and Tivat’s Adriatic Marinas, the Croatian Navy has once again gained the opportunity to overhaul at least its own ships in its own country, while it is still unable to do so even in Bijela when it only concerns weapons and more complex combat systems on military vessels, which was once done routinely and without problems in the Tivat Arsenal.
– The Ministry of Defense concluded a multi-year contract with the company Adriatic 42 from Bijela with the aim of ensuring the regular dynamics of the maintenance of the vessels of the Navy of Croatia. Dock works, as well as complex works on the ships of the Croatian Navy, have been started, in order to raise their technical correctness to a higher level – it was announced from the Ministry of Defense, whose work is officially coordinated by the Minister of the Interior, Filip Adžić.
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