#FerryBusyCammell – A busy drydocking schedule of ferries calling to Cammell Laird, Birkenhead on the Mersey has seen nearly as many ferries in the first four months of 2015 as in the whole of 2014.

The demand for Cammell Laird has seen 15 ferries docked at its historic 120 acre site, which includes four drydocks, in 2015. A further three ferries are booked in for drydocking and repairs.

Cammell Laird managing director Linton Roberts said the company has undertaken the work for a range of long standing clients including Caledonian MacBrayne, Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, Irish Ferries, NorthLink Ferries, P&O Ferries and Seatruck Ferries.

"It has been a really strong year for ferry drydockings and repairs and we are keen to build on this and win more work from new and existing clients," he said. "The work we have undertaken has made full use of our drydocks which are suitable for vessels up to 40m beam. The drydockings have included conventional and high-speed vessels, in steel or aluminium. They have ranged from the 46m, 617 gross tons Mersey Ferry Snowdrop to the 209m, 50,938 gross tons Irish Ferries Ulysses.

"We have also worked on the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company's Manannan, a 96m high-speed wave piercing catamaran car ferry. Here we have applied a SigmaGlide 1290 silicone coating system in an environmentally-controlled enclosure"

To read much more on the Merseyside shipyard and marine engineering facility click HERE.

Note the above link's second photograph of Seatruck Ferries Dublin-Heysham ro-ro freight-ferry Seatruck Pace which featured on Afloat.ie with an interview of the master of the 'P' class vessel.