CNIC /UIC Gear up for Pioneer Major Ship Building Project

A SAIPEM giant barge recently arrived at CNIC’s repairs base in Douala to undergo construction works which, once finished, will leave it a complete and new multi-purpose vessel, the “Tender Assist Drilling” (TAD).

Preparatory construction works on this vessel that had already undergone initial surfacing works in a facility in China, commenced in late April 2007 and are scheduled to take ten (10) months and absorb an estimated 1 500 tonnes of steel for structural works.

This construction project is at once a recognition of CNIC/UIC’s expertise that earned it the confidence of the client who moved in the vessel from far-off ASIA and an indication of the new direction and vision of the company’s activities ahead of the coming into use of its new industrial facility in Limbe that will fully equip CNIC with required infrastructure for both the regular oil rigs and ship repairs, up-grades and life extension jobs as well as enable it fulfil one of its missions of becoming a regional shipbuilding pole as echoed in the Head of State’s New Year message of December 2006. (Read)