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Harry, Master of the “ADELITA”, emailed Oceania Marine and puts it like this (summarised): Hello to all, family and friends (new and old)..I just wanted to thank you for the nice hospitality shown to us, while in your beautiful country, and wish all of you the best (below)..I have to admit, catching kahawai’s off the […]

Over the last two months Oceania Marine Coatings has been flat out recruiting experienced applicators to bolster its paint team at the Oceania Marine shipyard in Whangarei, New Zealand. The Marine Coatings Manager at the company, comments: “It’s a big, busy shipyard with up to four paint projects happening at once and looking forward this situation […]

  It’s a situation that for most of us who drive boats we hope to avoid but for the captain of a tug with a 58 metre container, transport, barge in tow that is what happened. The tug went up first and the barge soon followed. It occurred on the barrier reef of one of […]

Authored by Martin Gleeson, managing director of Oceania Marine, whilst heading for the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. We decided to stay a few nights in San Francisco on our way to the FLIBS boat show to give us an opportunity to explore the city. I also had an interest in looking up Eric Haberli […]

Oceania Marine Limited was incorporated in October 2009 and has now been offering refit, repair and construction services, through its shipyard located in Port Whangarei, New Zealand, for two years. Inevitably management of the company reflect on what has been achieved over the period and what that reveals engenders a strong sense of achievement. From […]

Authored by Martin Gleeson, Managing Director of Oceania Marine on a visit to Europe September 2011.   This year I arrived in the South of France in time to catch the end of the Cannes Yacht Show then stayed on for all of the Monaco Yacht Show. My aim was to get an overview of […]

The Whangarei Waterfront Marine Operators Group (WMOG) had its inaugural meeting on 31st August 2011. The group represents the 8 business located on the Whangarei Harbour which operate haulout facilities and range in size from 50 to 1200 tonnes. WMOG is a single interest group and aims to advance its members interests by promoting Whangarei […]

Police launch ‘Deodar III’ has been hauled out at the shipyard for application of underwater protective coatings. The vessel is a high speed foil-assisted catamaran well suited to International Paints Intersleek 900 system which is being applied. This is a technically challenging paint system which has to be applied by approved applicators under fully controlled conditions […]

Oceania Marine’s design office supplies all the shipyard design inputs required to support both new construction and refit projects. This entails a wide variety of knowledge and skills covering all the major design areas of modern marine craft. A recent example is the design commission received from a client that operates a large fleet of […]

Business North Article April 2011