Sandock Austral Shipyards is Africa’s leading commercial and naval shipbuilder and ship repair company, providing cost effective services and solutions to the marine industry worldwide.

Sandock Austral Shipyards is strategically located on the east coast of South Africa in Durban, one of Africa’s busiest ports. Established in 1960 and a proudly South African company, they have the largest shipyard in southern Africa consisting of 11 hectares with a useable water frontage of 300 metres. Sandock Austral Shipyards has an international reputation built on quality workmanship.

“For more than 60 years the company has built a reputation as one of Africa’s leading ship repair, maintenance and building firms with accolades that include holding the record for building the largest ship ever built on the African continent,” says Sandock Austral Shipyards CEO Prasheen Maharaj. The 147-metre-long SAS Drakensberg is also the most sophisticated naval vessel built to date in South Africa.

Sandock Austral Shipyards has maintained an impressive shipbuilding and ship repair track record. To date we have also built 21 tugboats. We were awarded the largest, single contract awarded by Transnet National Ports Authority for harbour craft, for nine state-of-the-art tugboats.

SERVICES
Shipbuilding
Complete in-house marine solutions are provided through Sandock Austral Shipyards’ Shipbuilding, Ship Repair, Naval Maintenance, Mechanical & Fabrication and Oil & Gas departments.

Sandock Austral Shipyards offers:
• The construction of small to mid-range steel and aluminium vessels up to 120m in length ƒ Fabrication of Marine Structures, Offshore Structures and Heavy Engineering.
• Full Turnkey Engineering Solutions and Vessel

Support Solutions
Ship Repair
The Ship Repair Division of Sandock Austral Shipyards has established itself as one of the major role players in the ports of Durban, East London and Cape Town.

Our privately owned floating dock can accommodate vessels up to 60 metres in length with a beam of 34 metres having a lifting capacity of 4000 tons. Ship repair provides full turnkey engineering solutions comprising of the following core services:
• Steel and pipework fabrication and replacement
• Mechanical services
• Riding crews
• Propulsion systems
• Steel preparation and protection
• Tank cleaning
• Electrical services
• Insulation and carpentry.

The Oil & Gas Services division provides pipe fabrication in Carbon and Stainless Steel, Copper, Yorcalbro and CuNiFe. All pipe work is carried out by qualified coded pipe welders to procedures endorsed by Bureau Veritas, Lloyds Register of Shipping, American Bureau of Shipping, Germanischer Lloyd, DNV, Nippon Kaiju Kyodai and other major classification societies. The division also enjoys the services, support and back up of the company’s Ship Building Division.

Naval Maintenance
Services include:
• Hull and Associated Structures
• Propulsion and Integrated Propulsion Management Systems
• Electrical and Electronic Support Systems
• Manoeuvring and Navigating Systems
• Auxiliary, Accommodation and Emergency Systems
• Outfitting
• Materials and Welding of Exotic Materials

System Engineering
We offer specification compliance review, design support and interfacing, equipment selection verification, development of marine systems, complex system integration and product support.

Collaborative Economy
Sandock Austral Shipyards has made major leaps and bounds towards employing the concept of the collaborative economy in the execution of its shipbuilding and ship repair projects. The company terms this collaboration “Team South Africa”, and it is integral to the success of the firm’s multi-billion Project Hotel. The multi-billion-rand contract to build a Hydrographic Survey Vessel (HSV) for the South African Navy represents one of the most complex projects to be undertaken in the African continent in recent years. The vessel will replace the Navy’s SAS Protea, which has been in service for more than 45 years.

“It is the largest, most complex survey vessel currently under construction in South Africa, so not only will the navy get a great product, but they will get the most modern product and it’s something team South Africa can be very proud of,” said Maharaj.

Empowerment
Sandock Austral Shipyards’ strength can be attributed to the qualifications and experience of its senior managers and associated with this a well-trained and stable workforce.

The work of Sandock Austral Shipyards has helped to cement the marine ship building and support industry locally and has also ensured that the benefits are spread to local, empowered companies. This contract has been about creating jobs, developing technical skills, training artisans and developing engineers for the wellbeing of future generations. Sandock Austral Shipyards’ employees are 12% proud shareholders of the company.