Metalships gets an €800,000 contract to repair Navy tugboats

The shipyard from Vigo continues to survive from ships conditioning

Oxygen in Río Teis. Metalships & Docks shipyard has been awarded a contract worth 800,000 euros for "ship or boat reconditioning services" by the Spanish Navy, as announced in the Official State Gazette (BOE). Specifically, at Teis docks they will carry out the inspection and eventual repair of two roadstead tugs at the service of the naval forces: Y-127 and Y-128. The work to prepare the first boat has an approximate cost of 460,000 euros while the second batch is valued 340,000. The first of them is already at Teis factory, arriving from Ferrol, where he carries out his work at the service of the Spanish navy. Next door, they work on the Ocean Explorer.

The shipyard headed by Manuel Rodríguez has been surviving for several years thanks to repairing and reconditioning contracts. This workload keeps forty workers in the yards, after the strike days held last summer due to the management's decision to lay off another seven employees. The concession for the water surface extended by the Port of Vigo will be valid until 2026 and, until then, there will be no layoffs, as assured by the shipyard's representation to the staff last September.

In the fall, Teis assumed four simultaneous contracts for the repair of four vessels and even advanced the efforts being made by the shipyard to reach new construction agreements. In November, a team of about 154 people (mostly indirect personnel) commissioned the tuna vessel Talenduic, the tugboat Ocean Osprey, the general cargo vessel Frieda, and the heavy-lift vessel Jumbo Vision.

(Source: La Voz de Galicia)