Sandock Austral Shipyards is Africa’s leading commercial and naval shipbuilder and ship repair company, providing cost effective services and solutions to the global marine industry. 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 spanning 11 hectares with a useable water frontage of 200 metres. Sandock Austral Shipyards has an international reputation built on world-class 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 the most sophisticated naval vessel built to date in South Africa.
Sandock Austral Shipyards has maintained an impressive shipbuilding and ship repair track record,
having also built 21 tugboats to date. 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:
ƒ The construction of steel vessels up to 150m in length. Fabrication of Marine Structures, Offshore
Structures and Heavy Engineering.
ƒ Full Turnkey Engineering Solutions and Vessel Construction

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 4500 tons. Ship repair provides full turnkey engineering solutions comprising of the following core services:
ƒ Steel and pipework fabrication and replacement
ƒ Mechanical services
ƒ Riding crews
ƒ Propulsion systems
ƒ Steel preparation and protection
ƒ Tank cleaning
ƒ Electrical services
ƒ 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:
ƒ Hull and Associated Structures
ƒ Propulsion and Integrated Propulsion Management
Systems
ƒ Electrical and Electronic Support Systems
ƒ Manoeuvring and Navigating Systems
ƒ Auxiliary, Accommodation and Emergency Systems
ƒ Outfitting
ƒ 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”, which is integral in 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, not only will the
Navy receive a great product, but it is also the most modern which is something team South Africa can be
very proud of,” said Maharaj.

Empowerment
Sandock Austral Shipyards’ strength can be attributed to the combined qualifications and experience of its
senior management and associated with this a welltrained 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. Our current
contract has been about creating jobs, developing technical skills, developing engineers and training
artisans and for the wellbeing of future generations. Sandock Austral Shipyards’ employees are 12% proud
shareholders of the company