Global Operations

In addition to offering new build and vessels lifecycle sustainment services from our USA shipyards, Swiftships extends its global reach through partnerships and subsidiaries around the world. 

For economic and strategic reasons, our clients choose to have vessels constructed, or vessels’ maintenance and repair facilities operated at their locations. Swiftships recognized these needs, and became the major U.S. based maritime company specializing in global co-production programs. Our localization programs support governments in increasing their indigenous industrial base, creating local employment, and bringing technology and know-how to their countries for long-term benefit.

Our approach is highly flexible and tailored to our customers’ needs. We offer our clients different packages based on their objectives and requirements. They may vary from vessel’s design licensing, to full scope assistance in developing production or MRO capability – from planning yard solutions and day-to-day management. 

Co-production Yards

During our history, we partnered with a number of Navies and local shipyards in developing co-production yards. Industry exemplary case is Swiftships partnership with the Egyptian Navy (EN) for 28 meter Coast Patrol Craft (CPC28) construction. Our scope of work included planning yard and sustainment site for the Egyptian Navy in Alexandria to construct CPC28 using U.S. procured material and in-country labor under Swiftships Subject Matter Expert (SME) support and QA guidelines from ABS. 

Over 40 years partnership between Swiftships and the EN is successfully progressing, and over 50 CPC28 are booked to be constructed until 2027. In addition, co-marketing activities are starting to promote vessels in Africa and the Middle East.

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Maintenance and Repair Yards
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Keeping vessels at high operational readiness is the main priority of all operators. Swiftships offer over 50 years of experience in preventative and corrective maintenance, complex vessels repair, and upgrades, refit/modernization for complex naval and commercial platforms. 

Our programs of record includes Iraqi Navy fleet management. Swiftships provided planning yard, where IqN Fleet operational readiness stood at a benchmark level of 80%. Our sustainment management team, was on-duty 24/7 and supported IqN mission readiness with corrective and preventative maintenance. Swiftships Quality Assurance (QA) worked with US Navy Port Engineers on-site (in-country) to achieve the highest quality ratings for our customers most efficiently and cost-effectively.

Global Strategy Success

We build our global footprint by creating industry leading partnerships, strategic joint ventures and local subsidiaries. Our global expansion goal is to give operational advantage to our clients, create local jobs, help countries to build sovereign industries, and increase local know-how. 

Headquartered in the United States, Swiftships operates four shipyards, several dry docks, and co-production yards. We have delivered our vessels to over 50 countries, and our subsidiaries are located in South Asia and the Middle East. We built strategic joint ventures in the KSA, to strengthen and extend our MRO capability in the region.

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