In 1996, Colin Dunlop founded Alloy Fabricators - a marine engineering and ship building company based in Lami, Suva. He successfully managed the company for a decade before PBS acquired the business including its offices, workshop and factory, plant, equipment and talented team of ship builders, fabricators, welders, boilermakers, pipe-fitters and project managers. This team quickly became the nucleus of our Ship Works division.
Today, this dept which also repairs and refits ships and barges is a healthy segment of PBS' growing multi-discipline construction business so much so that the company recently leveraged its core skill set as a builder by branching out into wooden boat building (pleasure craft) - primarily building classical mahogany replicas from the by-gone Golden Era.
The Ship Works division includes a naval architect, engineers and ship building professionals who have been involved in a wide variety of barge and ship design and build initiatives including:
• 10.5m Harbour tug for Rarotonga
• 2 x commercial fishing boats for Samoa 15m & 17.5m
• 18m commercial fishing boat for Noumea: BV Class
• 10m Para-sailing boat diesel jet powered
• 10m Boat for the Church of the Nazarene
• Numerous resort diving and fishing boats 6.25m - 10m
• 3.0m extension and dive platform: design and build 75ft steel mast and rigging to 135ft dive boat
• Several glass bottom coral viewing boats about 8m
The team, who has been working together for over a decade, is led by Colin Dunlop, arguably Fiji's finest and most experienced naval architect and ship builder with over 40 years of experience.
Colin was the former President of the Fiji Marine Board. His impressive list of achievements includes:
• Design of Pusher tug for Fiji cement works
• Design & supervision of construction 120ft Shelter Deck Bow ramp cargo ship for PNG: First ship built to LR Class in Fiji
• Design & supervision of construction 86ft Harbour Tug for Pago American Samoa: First ship built in Fiji to ABS Class
• Design of major refit of oil rig supply vessel conversion to deep water salvage work
• Design for 120ft 3 masted passenger day cruise schooner
• Design & supervision of construction 56m Passenger cruise vessel: ABS Class: SOLAS conformity
• Design & supervision of construction 48m Passenger cruise vessel & 39m Passenger cruise vessel
• Design of 58m Passenger cruise vessel: ABS Class: SOLAS conformity
• Design & supervision of construction: EEC funded 2 * 26m fishing boats for Kiribati
• Design & Supervision of construction: 2 * 28m fishing vessels for Fiji
• UN/ESCAP funded Project study and design of 26m fishing vessels for Tonga
• Design & Project management: 42m inter-island Vessel: Built in China
• Project Co-ordinator for construction of 6 * 25m fishing boats for Tahiti
• Design and build Harbour tug for Avatiu, Rarotonga
• Design of second self-propelled barge for Aitutaki, Cook Islands Port Authority
• 58m Cargo passenger vessel for Cook Islands Government
