![]() Vigor will also be able to work on oil tankers that transport oil from Valdez, Alaska, to the West Coast. The company will be able to work on any cruise ship, with the exception of the new 225,000-ton mega cruise ships. The cruise ship industry is one market Vigor hopes to attract. The company has not scheduled any vessels for the new dry dock, Doiron said, although it has begun to reach out to potential clients. ![]() “With this new dock, there is virtually no vessel in the West Coast that we won’t be able to dry dock,” said Doiron. When the dry dock is put together, Vigor will be able to work on larger vessels that the company could not service before. “This will give those vessel owners another alternative,” he said. “Some of the ships that we are going to be competing on currently go overseas,” said Rene Doiron, Vigor’s vice president for ship repair. The company hopes the new dry dock will keep work in the United States. The dry dock will be built in three pieces, which will be towed from China to the Swan Island Shipyard, where it will be assembled. ![]() The expected delivery date is March 2014. Vigor is buying the new $40 million dry dock from Daoda Marine Heavy Industry Co., based in Jiangsu Province, China. Over the past decade a half-dozen large dry docks on the West Coast have stopped operating. “We decided now is the time to buy because demand to service large vessels is growing and large dry dock capacity in proximity to the West Coast has diminished,” said Frank Foti, Vigor’s CEO, in a press release. It will be 300 feet longer than Vigor’s largest current dry dock and will be able to lift triple the weight. The dry dock, to be stationed at Vigor’s Swan Island shipyard in Portland, Ore., will be 960 feet long with an inside width of 186 feet and a lifting capacity of 80,000 long tons. Vigor Industrial has signed a contract with a Chinese shipyard to build what will be the largest floating dry dock in the United States.
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