Herma Shipyard

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Herma Shipyard Inc. is the world's largest Filipino-owned major shipyard^{[citation needed]}. It is located at Mariveles, Bataan, 34 nautical miles (157 kilometers by road) west of Manila, the capital. The Shipyard can be reached by ferry, car, or bus, and offers a full range of maritime services for shipowners^{[citation needed]}. This facility is centrally located along well-traversed shipping routes of domestic and international trade, such as Batangas-Manila Bay route.^{[citation needed]}

The Shipyard has a total land area of 17 hectares and is located within a natural cove which helps protect the facilities from adverse weather conditions and strong winds brought about by Northeast monsoon, which usually occurs from November to April.^{[citation needed]}

The company started out in the year 2000 and offers a wide variety of services for tankers, self-propelled barges, inter-island passenger and commercial vessels, ship transport vessels, military vessels and other marine vessels of up to 10,000 metric tons of deadweight (DWT). Herma Shipyard also offers a range of industrial services from light industrial equipment and machine parts to customized ship outfitting. The Chairman and CEO is Herminio S. Esguerra.

[edit] Facilities

Graving Dock

Drydocking capacity is 10,000 GT Vessel

Length at top is 159.4 Meters
Length at Bottom is 155.75 Meters
Width at Top is 30.63 Meters
Width at Bottom is 23.32 Meters
Depth is 12.18 Meters

Floating Dock

Length overall is 60.96 Meters
Breadth Moulded is 19.51 Meters
Depth Moulded is 9.45 Meters
Maximum Draft is 8.69 Meters
Load Draft is 2.44 Meters
Light Draft is 1.04 Meters

Herma 1 Berth Capacity

Berth No. 1 is 30 Meters with a water depth of 4.25 Meters average
Berth No. 2 is 142 Meters with a 6.85 Meters average
Berth No. 3 is 170 Meters with a 7.65 Meters average

Lifting

Dock side cranes and floating cranes with a maximum capacity of 200 metric tons
Barge and crawler cranes with a capacity of up to 120 tons
40-ton gantry cranes on both sides of the dry dock
Add Integrity specs will be provided by TEP
Lifting, to verify if its 200 metric tons

[edit] Affiliates

The Herma Group has grown from a small company with one rented barge and 10 employees in 1985 to a five billion-peso conglomerate comprised of eight companies providing petroleum, maritime, and environmental services to foreign and local industrial partners:^{[citation needed]}