" Mr. Ary Noordermeer (MD). addressing the public and press."

SPEECH BY  MD OF CONTINENTAL SHIPYARD LIMITED

Ladies and gentlemen, we bid you welcome to Continental Shipyard Ltd. A special welcome to our Board members and Mr. Hughes and Mr. Reynolds from BSI South Africa.

Today we celebrate the conferment with the ISO 9002 certification requirements. An extraordinary achievement for  a company, which only started in May 1996.

Up to January of this year 55 vessels were repaired and /or docked. Of this number, time wise, 80% concerned NPA vessels, among which some very big jobs, some of which are still ongoing like the two floating cranes  “Kugbo” and  “Kakube”.

In the first four months of this year we have had already four vessels from third parties, fixed orders for the remainder of the year for 12 more third vessels and numerous requests for many more, which we cannot handle. So we must be doing something good.  This means CSL has to perform at very high, international standards. We have to comply with the requirements of the classification bureau’s (Lloyds, BV, ABS, US Coastguard).

More and more we notice that foreign vessel owners insist that their vessels are docked and surveyed at a shipyard, which has this ISO 9002 certificate, which – in the offshore industry – has already been a requirement for many years. In fact we are negotiating a contract to rebuild an oilrig for early next year.

BSI ( British Standard Institute) in the person of Mr. Tom Hughes has been a tremendous coach and teacher to us and this showed.

In the first two months of this year we were able to conclude the work and ask for a final audit, which we passed and with this celebration as a result! A giant step in the right direction, but only a first of many still to come.

The vast amount of work needed, was not done by one man alone.  However to honor those who were involved I would like to introduce to you our Quality Manager who coordinated, chased and motivated everybody Mr. Faruk Usman.

 This motto became our policy

“Quality is never good enough and cost is never low enough”.

With this we are on the way to become the dockyard in West Africa.

Thank you.

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