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Great Lakes Shipyard

shipyard Cleveland, OH, United States

Great Lakes Shipyard is a full-service shipyard in Cleveland, Ohio, part of The Great Lakes Group alongside The Great Lakes Towing Company. It handles new vessel and barge construction, fabrication, conversion, refit, maintenance and repair for commercial and government vessels, working in steel and aluminum and building to customer plans or its own custom designs. The yard sits in the Old River Channel on the Cuyahoga River with roughly 2,000 linear feet of waterfront and a 900-ton mobile Travelift, and performs work to ABS, Lloyd's Register and USCG standards using ABS-certified welders.

Great Lakes Shipyard

Great Lakes Shipyard is the shipbuilding and repair arm of The Great Lakes Group, a diversified marine organization operating on the Great Lakes that also includes The Great Lakes Towing Company, Soo Linehandling Services and other affiliates. The company has always operated a Cleveland-based shipyard, originally on Jefferson Road in the Flats and, since 1952, at its present site in the Old River Bed; it entered the commercial ship repair business in 1983 and later completed a multi-phase expansion project. As both a builder and an operator of its own tug fleet, the yard emphasizes prompt, cost-effective work to the standard it would expect as a vessel owner.

Services

  • New vessel and barge construction in steel and aluminum, to customer plans or custom design
  • Marine fabrication, conversion, refit and repair
  • Maintenance, drydocking and topside work, both on-site and off-site
  • Special-purpose designs developed with major naval architects, including the "Z-Class" ASD tugs and the "HandySize" class tugs

Facilities

  • Newly constructed shipyard facility in the Old River Channel on the Cuyahoga River
  • Approximately 2,000 linear feet of waterfront, with an additional 3,800 lineal feet available nearby on the Cuyahoga River
  • 900-ton mobile Travelift
  • Indoor shipyard facility (10,917 sq ft), a 68-foot-high temporary shipyard facility (10,500 sq ft), concrete reinforced slip, 1,776 linear feet of bulkheading and a 7,768 sq ft headquarters building
  • Machine shop trades among in-house capabilities

Quality and Standards

  • Work performed in accordance with ABS or Lloyd's Register rules, with an on-site satellite office for ABS surveyors and visiting Lloyd's Register personnel
  • USCG federal regulation used as the primary benchmark for repair and new construction projects
  • Employs only ABS certified welders; in-house Quality Assurance Team oversees inspections, testing and trials
  • First U.S. shipyard to enroll in the Green Marine environmental program

Vessel Types

  • Tugs, supply boats, ferries and barges, including "truckable" barges
  • Excursion vessels, dinner boats and research vessels
  • Large yachts
  • Commercial and government vessels generally

Location

  • 4500 Division Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102, United States