Lyttelton Engineering is the largest engineering facility in the Port of Lyttelton. With a large, well equipped workshop situated alongside the only dry dock in the South Island, we are well positioned to provide an efficient servicing and repair capability to owners of vessels both using the dry dock or passing through the port.
The dry dock, which was completed in 1883, can accommodate vessels up to 125 metres in length and 5,000 tonnes in weight.
The company is approved and equipped to conduct surveys to the requirements of any classification society and the range of work undertaken includes propeller shaft and rudder overhauls and replacements, hull and structural repairs, engine work, painting, shipwrighting and electrical work.
Up to 30 major surveys and dry dockings
are undertaken each year, some of which
are double dockings and the range of vessels includes fishing trawlers,
cargo vessels, tugs, gas carrier, cement carriers and dredges.