Projects
On this page you can find a selection of the most important operations carried out around the world by our teams over the years.
Revolutionizing underwater welding repairs since 1974
“In the early 20th century, it would have been considered suicide for a diver to shoot an electric arc into the water. Though professional diving
Underwater propeller blade replacement in Amsterdam
A 173-meter, heavy load carrier needed to have one of its propeller blades replaced during the ship’s stop in Amsterdam. We therefore sent a team
Propeller repair in the Baltic avoids costly drydocking
Two parts of the tip of one of the four propeller blades of a 190-meter bulker were damaged. They needed to be cropped to restore
Underwater stern tube seal repairs in Australia and Colombia
Recently we mobilized our diver/technician teams to vessels in Colombia and Australia to carry out stern tube seal replacements. In Cartagena the repair was carried
Complex steel repairs carried out afloat
Hydrex has an in-house Research & Development department that can take care of the engineering aspects of an operation. In this way turnkey solutions can
Start saving fuel with your propeller cone fin now
We regularly install propeller cone fins on different types of vessels. We can carry out these operations underwater, out of drydock, all over the world
The solution to scrubber corrosion
More and more ships are being fitted with Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS or, more commonly, scrubbers) so that they can use cheaper, heavy fuel
Afloat rudder repairs
For Hydrex’s 50th anniversary we are looking back at the history and a few memorable case studies of each of the services we offer to
Bow thruster operations in Belgium and Spain
Our men performed afloat bow thruster operations on container ships in Belgium and Spain. In Algeciras a thruster was removed on a 306-meter vessel and