Keleto Duruvesi at the FSHIL workshop. Photo: Fiji Ports Corporation Limited
Fiji Ships and Heavy Industries Limited (FSHIL) continue to work towards developing, maintaining and improving ship repairs facilities to enhance economic growth and prosperity of Fiji.
Its core functions extend further than slipping of marine vessels, carrying out ship repairs and maintenance as it also now provides heavy industrial and engineering works.
FSHIL also undertake steel, engineering, electrical timber and technical works apart from the workforce that has experienced master shipwrights, skilled in the art of shipbuilding.
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The capacity for steel fabrication up to 300 tonnes has made it possible for FSHIL to design multipurpose, roll-on-roll off, steel-hulled vessels, specifically for inter-island transport and trading.
The design includes a bulbous bow, factoring in the need for vessels to be able to navigate through the often-narrow passageways, found in the coral reefs that encircle many islands in the Pacific’s waters.
FSHIl’s skilled tradesmen are recognised for their skills, having fabricated the 40 tonne steel bridge box-girder, casting mould that was used in the pouring of the concrete support piles on the Rewa Bridge construction, beginning in 2003 and completed in 2006.
FSHIL also undertakes projects, such as the manufacture of steel fuel tanks for a variety of clients and, more recently, the fabrication of mooring buoys for Suva Harbour, capable of holding 30 to 50t tonne vessels.
