In the last three years - after the privatization - the repair business at Hellenic Shipyards S.A. is on the rise. The company’s location, in the most busy shipping area of Greece and at the center of the Mediterranean Sea, offers ideal conditions for Greek and international customers to carry out any kind of repairs or conversions - even the most demanding in terms of technology and size.
With the outstanding facilities - HSY has for example the largest graving dock in the Mediterranean - with its highly experienced and motivated work-force and with reliable outside partners, HSY is fully dedicated to the target of satisfying its customers’ needs- on time, at competitive prices and in full accordance to the agreed specifications.
In full knowledge of the demanding competitive conditions that predominate in the shipping world today.
Hellenic Shipyards has successfully built a series of different types of vessels for the Hellenic Navy and the Hellenic Coast Guard. Thus, as a proven reliable partner, it has gained strategic importance in the further development of the naval defense and cost-guarding capabilities of Greece.
With its own designs but also in co-operation with leading naval shipbuilders (like CMN and Blohm + Voss) and weapons and electronics suppliers (like Thales, Sagem etc.), Hellenic Shipyards has also become the Prime Contractor in the implementation of projects for the Hellenic Navy.
Focused on the needs of our customer, the Hellenic Navy, and with an ongoing close and You will find a modern ship repair and Newbuilding facilities for vessels up 500.000 dwt. Floating docks 252m x 40m x 9.7m, 110.000 dwt lifting capacity 33.000t, 227.5m x 43m x 8m 60.000 dwt, lift 20.000t, 162n x 32,2m x 6,5 20.000 dwt lift cap 9000t. Ponton 25m x 7m x 2m. Repair berths for all size of vessels.
It is the policy of the Management Team at Hellenic Shipyards S.A. to safeguard jobs not only through the aggressive pursuit of new businesses but also through the constant upgrading of the quality of its work force. In today’s intensively competitive international environment, where capital moves about freely and labor nearly equally so, knowledge is the factor of production that can best guarantee the stability of employment, because it allows a person to acquire and maintain a comparative advantage in carrying out his or her work.
The rapid development of technology along with the intensification of the competition make necessary for the company, during the last years, the modification of its productive procedure, with the aim to alter the mentality of working, the change of culture and the strict focusing onto the customers’ demands. The change in the productive procedure is mainly based on the exploitation of the human factor. The personnel of the company are the essential element that makes the difference and offers to the latter the comparative advantage. The investment in Human Resources demands as prerequisite the contribution of the relative expenses for the training of the employees. The reimbursement of the investment is translated into the improvement of the performance of the employees and the achievement of the goals of the company. However, in order to achieve the optimum results, we need development, organization and subjection of the training task under a concrete structure.
The training department of the company follows an efficient procedure including: