Vancouver Drydock Facilities
Drydocks
- Panamax drydock: 36,000 tonne lift capacity; 221m (over aprons) x 204m (over 5 pontoons) x 59m beam overall x 45.8m inside x 8.8m depth (over blocks)
- Self-contained drydock: Seaspan Careen 30,000 tonne lift capacity, 131m (over single pontoon) x 48.8m beam overall x 33.5m inside
- Environmentally friendly equipment to remove paint layers – High pressure water cleaning and vapour blasting
Outfitting/Repair Pier
- 210 metre deep water pier (10.5 meter water depth) fully serviced with 85 tonne crane
Machine Shop
- 1,740 square meters (18,750 square feet)
- Two 40-tonne overheard cranes
- 10 lathes up to 18 metres (50 feet) long with 2.45 meter (96 inch) diameter turning capacity
- 6 boring mills up to 2.5 metre (99 inch) capacity
- Computer Numeric Controls plate cutter
Steel Forming
- 21,000 square foot covered shop
- Brake presses up to 1,000 tonnes
- Roll bender up to 17 metres x 2 centimetres (40 feet x ¾ inch) plate
- Frame bender up to 440 tonnes
