Facilities

Work Shops

• Undercover fabrication workshops which cover an area of 320m x 42m serviced by 2 x 30ton gantry cranes capable of 60 ton tandem lift.
• Fully equipped pipe fabrication shop.
• Stores with dedicated customs bonded holding area
• Undercover paint shop for minor fabrications

                            Southern African Shipyards Repair Quay 
• Repair quay length of 200M with an average draft of 7,5M
• Lay down area to accommodate hatch covers
• Services provided at repair quay include 380volt shore power, fresh water and compressed air.


Docking Facilities
SAS DOCK Southern African Ship Yards Floating Dock

• Lifting Capacity 5000 tons
• Overall Length 50 meters
• Overall width 30 meters
• Cranes 2 x 12 ton lifting capacity travelling full length of dock.

Southern African Ship Yards also has access to the following National Port Authorities facilities in the Port of Durban

Prince Edward Graving Dock

• Overall docking length 352,04m
• Length on keel blocks 327,66m
• Length on bottom 352,04m
• Width at entrance on top 33,52m
• Inner dock 138,68m
• Outer dock 206,9m
• Depth at entrance 11m

The Prince Edward Graving dock can be divided into two compartments of 206,9m and 138,68m. The graving dock can be emptied in four hours. Five electric cranes service this dock with capacities ranging from 1 x 50t with a 10t attached, 1 x 24t, 1 x 15t, 1 x 10t, 2 x 8t.

Floating dock

The floating dock has a lifting capacity of 4500 tons and has 2 electric cranes capable of travelling the full length of the starboard and port side of the dock.

• Overall length 100m
• Length on keel blocks 95m
• Length on bottom 100m
• Overall Width 21.6m
• Width at entrance 22m
• Height on keel blocks 1.4m
• Draft on keel blocks at MHWS 6m 

Dock Blocks Southern African Shipyards has its own specially constructed dock blocks 2700 mm in height to accommodate the withdrawal of Azimuth Units