From designing to building new naval and commercial vessels, Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB) has turned out to be the regional leader in manufacturing boats. The UAE shipbuilding firm designs, builds new boats, repairs, maintains, refits and converts vessels for both local and international clients. A subsidiary of the local defence conglomerate Edge, it provides ongoing through-life support to the UAE Navy and the local Critical Infrastructure and Coastal Protection ‎Authority. The company’s main shipyard is located in Abu Dhabi’s Musaffah Industrial area and occupies a total area of over 300,000 sq m. Four large air-conditioned warehouses, six open spaces, and satellite stores facilitate storage and distribution at project sites. A shipyard warehouse allows storage of all critical project-specific items and stock items needed in day-to-day operations. Over the years, ADSB has grown from strength to strength, delivering quality vessels and providing ongoing through-life support to the naval, commercial and luxury yacht sectors, both regionally and globally. Running one of the most advanced shipyards in the Middle East, ADSB operates three main naval programmes: corvettes, offshore patrol vessels, and fast patrol boats. The UAE firm also offers a full range of maintenance, repair and refit, upgrade and conversion, as well as engineering consultancy services. For the past 26 years since its inception in 1996, the ADSB has built more than 250 vessels in steel, aluminium and advanced composite and also repaired or maintained hundreds of others. Company handles entire shipbuilding process from A-Z The ADSB is handling the whole process of shipbuilding from A-Z -from design, manufacturing parts, and construction. The company builds navy ships mainly for navy, coastguard and firefighting applications, commercial ships for mainly oil and gas applications and transportation vessels for passengers. ADSB also aims with international partners to build luxury vessels. In an exclusive interview with Khaleej Times, Francesco Monaco, director of Shipbuilding and Engineering at ADSB, said the state-of the-art and strategic shipyard for the UAE handles all the in-house designs from the concept to the basic detail engineering, production, commissioning and delivering the vessels to the clients. “Today ADSB is capable of coming up with the concept design, sit with the client and assess the requirements of the design, mapping the main specifications and preparing the layout and others. We also handle all the basic engineering parts of the vessel that includes the system and integration of all the related equipment, production until the completion of the