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Shipbuilding in South Africa has been ongoing for some 30 years albeit in a stop-start fashion. This has resulted in a pool of expertise being created which has steadily gained experience from the diversity of projects undertaken locally. At Southern African Shipyards, we have many years of innovative and highly skilled Shipbuilding and Ship Repair history to draw from.
The CV’s of our personnel reflect the experience base line in management and first line supervision in ship repair. Behind each person is a wealth of project management and hands-on ship repair and operational experience that is invaluable to our customers. The experience is being passed on to the new employees of the Company by on the job training in the fields of management, design, project management, safety and the full range of shipbuilding disciplines.
Training Initiative: Shipbuilding is traditionally very manpower intensive with a broad band of specialized skills requirements. History has shown that Shipbuilding Artisans are a desired commodity in related industries, therefore for the Shipbuilding Industry to survive, training is essential. The introduction of the Skills and Development Act has brought new challenges to the Shipbuilding Industry. SAS is registered with SEIFSA and MERSETA. As the workload and available finances grow, the Learnerships will be expended. SAS is committed to the training of 60 apprentices over the next 5 years.
The yard normally has 200-400 persons in its employ and when required can operate on a dual - shift build programme. The ship repair department is working 24/7 wherever required
Southern African Shipyards is a fully Black Empowered company. The Shipyard strives to be fully compliant with the latest South African Labour legislation and is committed to Employment Equity and the uplift of Previously Disadvantaged Individuals
Our Competive Advantage
- Well trained and stable workforce
- Custom made and well located facility ,which is well equipped for ship building and ship reapir
- LRQS ISO 9001:2008 Certificationfor Construction and design of ships upto 150m
- Stable Industrial relations
- Fully compliant with the latest labour laws
- Fully BEE Coplaint :Level 3 contributor
- Fairly elected and well run Workplace Liaison Committee , Health ans Safety Committee
- Continuous Training Committee
- Excellent shipbuilding and ship repair record
- Largest shipbuilder in the country and one of the three largest shiprepairers
- Goverment now focused on the benifits of shipbuilding as a job creation industry
- 230m quay
Shipbuilders Durban (Pty) Ltd is the property company ; the property comprises a ship construction facility and National Ports Authority leasehold land situated at 10 Rotterdam Road , Bayhead Durban South Africa . The lease expires on December 31 2022