THE ECHO - Ferrostaal

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the project. Not least the South-African government and authorities,
who are open to the idea. MAN Ferrostaal is currently bringing all
of these partners together.
“Ironically, South Africa had a shipyard that built a large gas
platform 15 years ago. This platform is still in use today in the
Mossel Field Bay on Africa’s east coast. The operator, Mossgas, was
convinced that other gas reserves were to be found outside the
Mossel Field. However, this did not prove to be the case,” says
Weretecki. The shipyard was therefore shut down after the first
platform was built. “Today we are restoring a lost industry to
South Africa.”
MAN Ferrostaal is working on two different projects. In Saldanha
Bay on the east coast, we are building a shipyard for the construction
and remodelling of offshore platforms. In Cape Town, meanwhile,
we are constructing a service and repair centre for platform maintenance.
In addition to MAN Ferrostaal and the local project developer
Atlantis Marine Projects, national and international companies
are involved in financing these projects, i.e. the Deutsche
Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) development
finance institution and the Industrial Development Corporation
of South Africa.
MAN Ferrostaal’s role in the projects comprises project management,
overseeing the construction of both shipyards as a general
contractor and then making these available to local industry.
Essentially, this involves bringing together the various companies
that are looking after individual components of the projects and
are based in various parts of the country, so that they can function
as a single operator. The five major technical partners are
Grinaker, DCD Dobyle Engineering, DCD Dorbyle Marine, Globe
Engineering and SA Five Engineering.
MAN Ferrostaal and partners are directly and indirectly investing
approximately 1.7 billion South-African rand (160 million euros)