The Concept of Floating Shipyard

Shipyards are known as a land-based facility that ships steer to for docking and repair. This study represents an introductory conceptual study for a new principle of developing a Floating shipyard: changing the phenomena of a fixed site shipyard into a self-propelled floating shipyard. This Floating Shipyard can travel and conduct dry-docking activities at the client's location or even lift the client's vessel and travel to the F-Yard extension, taking advantage of having comprehensive repair or conversion. The arising challenges to this floating shipyard, such as lay-offs, restructuring, and environmental legislation, requires a balanced solution. The solution of all this relies on adapting talent management and competitive production tools during this massive undergoing change in its backbone structure. The Floating shipyard, here named "F-Yard", changes the mindset of dry-dock. This is because F-Yard travels to the client's location or is capable of pick the client's unit nearby the cargo destination, where it can complete the required dry-dock or repair. The cutthroat advantage of the F-Yard comes from self-propelled, where the other approaches depend on others for mobilizing and anchoring from one location to another. In addition, F-Yard could serve other industries, due to its fully equipped workshops, that able to serve different market needs such as oil and gas and renewable energy...etc. These open the door for a variety of business scope. F-Yard depends on front-end engineering and marketing teams to optimize its route and sort the supply chain requirements.