New Building and Special Projects

Why Choose Synergy

By the time a vessel enters service, many of the decisions that will define her commercial performance have already been made.

The choice of shipyard. The quality of the technical specification. Equipment selection. Fuel readiness. Maintainability. Digital architecture. Compliance with regulations that may not fully take effect until years after delivery. Individually these may appear to be engineering decisions. Collectively they determine how efficiently a vessel operates, how readily she adapts to changing commercial and regulatory requirements and how much value she creates throughout her working life. For shipowners, the challenge is no longer simply to build a vessel that satisfies today’s specification. It is to build an asset capable of meeting tomorrow’s operational realities.

That requires more than project supervision.Through Synergy Marine Projects, Synergy Marine Group provides integrated project services spanning feasibility studies, technical evaluation, design review, newbuilding supervision, conversion, retrofit, commissioning and operational readiness. Every assignment combines engineering expertise with the operational experience of one of the world’s second-largest third-party ship managers, ensuring that decisions made during construction reflect not only how a vessel should be built, but how she will ultimately operate.

These services are delivered through Synergy Marine Projects, the Group’s dedicated newbuilding, supervision and conversion capability and part of the wider Synergy Marine Group.

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Beyond Shipyard Supervision

Experience Beyond the Shipyard

A shipyard’s responsibility is to construct a vessel in accordance with the agreed specification.

An owner’s objective is different.

The vessel must perform safely, efficiently and commercially throughout decades of operation, while remaining adaptable to changing regulations, evolving technologies and future trading requirements.

Those objectives do not always align naturally.

This is why the role of project supervision has evolved. Owners increasingly require a technical partner capable of looking beyond construction milestones to understand how design decisions will influence maintenance, operational reliability, regulatory compliance and future modifications long after delivery. A project completed on schedule may still carry compromises that become apparent only years later — restricted maintenance access, equipment selected around availability rather than operational suitability, design decisions that complicate future retrofits or reduce commercial flexibility. These rarely delay delivery. They frequently influence the operational life of the asset.

Engineering oversight today is therefore less about confirming compliance and more about helping owners avoid decisions that become expensive to revisit once a vessel enters service.

Operational Experience

Experience That Stays With the Vessel

One of the defining characteristics of Synergy Marine Projects is that project knowledge does not end when construction does.

The engineers overseeing a vessel’s construction are supported by colleagues responsible for managing more than 730 vessels in service across every major commercial segment. That practical experience informs specification reviews, equipment evaluations and maintainability assessments throughout construction. A drawing may satisfy class requirements while still creating unnecessary maintenance complexity. An equipment selection may comply fully with the specification while operational experience suggests a more reliable alternative. These observations cannot be developed solely within a shipyard. They come from understanding how vessels actually perform throughout their working lives, and they are the most consistent source of value a project team can bring to an owner’s assignment.

Project Lifecycle Support

Across the Project Lifecycle

Every project follows its own technical and commercial pathway, yet the objective remains consistent: engineering judgement applied throughout every stage of development — from the earliest feasibility assessments through yard evaluation, specification development, contract review, equipment selection, design approval, construction supervision, shop inspections, sea trials, commissioning and operational readiness.

Rather than treating these as isolated milestones, Synergy Marine Projects approaches them as connected decisions that collectively determine the quality of the finished asset. Whether supporting a single specialised vessel or managing a complex multi-vessel construction programme across several yards, continuity of engineering oversight remains central to every assignment.

The project record behind this approach is specific. The team has accumulated more than 65 million safe manhours in newbuilding and conversion supervision, supervised more than 400 vessels through sea and gas trials, reviewed and approved more than 200,000 plans, attended more than 10,000 shop trials and led more than 1,000 technical specifications and contract negotiations. The combined project experience of the team spans 225 vessels across every major commercial segment, with deliveries from yards across South Korea, Japan, China and Vietnam — including HD Hyundai Mipo, Hyundai Heavy Industries, HSHI, Oshima Shipbuilding, Namura Shipyard, COSCO Yangzhou, NACKS, DACKS, Jiangnan Shipyard and HVS Shipyard Vietnam.

All project work is conducted within ISO 9001:2015 quality management, ISO 14001:2015 environmental management and ISO 45001:2018 occupational health and safety systems.

Conversions & Retrofits

Conversion, Retrofit and Fleet Modernisation

Not every important engineering decision begins with a newbuilding. Owners are increasingly extending asset life through conversion programmes, emissions technologies, alternative fuel systems and operational upgrades designed to meet evolving commercial and regulatory requirements. These projects demand a different engineering discipline. Unlike greenfield construction, retrofit programmes must work within existing structural arrangements, established operational practices and the realities of vessels already in service. Every modification must balance technical feasibility with operational practicality.

Synergy Marine Projects applies the same structured engineering oversight to conversion and retrofit programmes as it does to newbuildings, ensuring that every intervention contributes to the vessel’s long-term operational objectives. Projects have included complex vessel conversions, carbon capture installations, bulk carrier to self-unloader conversions and lifecycle extension programmes, each requiring close coordination between owners, yards, classification societies, equipment manufacturers and operational teams.

Future-Ready Vessel Design

Designing for an Uncertain Future

Few owners today are designing vessels against a stable regulatory environment.

Alternative fuels continue to evolve. Carbon regulations continue to develop. Digital capability is becoming increasingly important to charterers, financiers and regulators.

The question therefore extends beyond selecting the right technology today. It is whether today’s engineering decisions preserve sufficient flexibility for tomorrow.

Synergy Marine Projects has supervised projects involving LNG, methanol and LPG dual fuel propulsion, carbon capture technologies, shaft generators, air lubrication systems and hybrid energy storage solutions. Each is evaluated not as an isolated engineering exercise but within the broader context of operational performance, commercial viability and long-term asset resilience. Every project benefits from direct operational feedback drawn from vessels already under management — allowing engineering decisions to be informed by experience rather than assumption.

FSU, FSRU & Offshore Projects

Floating Storage, Regasification and Offshore Projects

Floating Storage Units and Floating Storage and Regasification Units represent a category of project that places different demands on a supervision team. The engineering complexity is comparable to conventional newbuilding. The regulatory and safety requirements are more stringent, and the consequences of supervision failures are more severe.

Synergy Marine Projects has completed more than ten FSU and FSRU concept studies, six basic and detailed design projects and four EPC projects, with further conversion projects currently under way. This depth of experience in LNG infrastructure projects is not widely available within third-party ship management, and it reflects a sustained commitment to technically demanding assignments rather than a selective involvement in high-profile projects.

Offshore vessels introduce further considerations. The expansion of the offshore sector into renewable energy support has brought owners into asset categories where in-house project experience may be limited. The technical project management disciplines developed across seven offshore vessel types within the team’s combined experience apply directly to these assignments.

Seamless Handover

From Delivery into Service

For owners who intend to place a vessel into technical management following delivery, the handover between supervision and ongoing management carries risk. The team responsible for the vessel’s long-term performance inherits an asset they did not build, supervised by a team they may not have worked with.

Synergy Marine Projects removes that risk. The project team and the Group’s technical management team work within the same organisation. For owners managing a newbuilding through Synergy Marine Projects into Synergy technical management, the engineers who supervised the construction brief the superintendents who will run the vessel — before delivery. The technical management team knows the vessel before they take responsibility for it.

This continuity also allows the technical management team to contribute to specification decisions during construction, ensuring the vessel is built not only to a high technical standard but to one that supports efficient, cost-effective operation across its working life. The distance between what was built and what is needed to operate it well is where lifecycle cost is most commonly created. Closing that distance requires supervision and management to be genuinely integrated, not nominally connected.

Marine Services Support

Marine Services Support

The lifecycle of a vessel extends beyond construction and conversion. Dry docking, planned maintenance support, ballast water treatment, scrubber systems and vessel connectivity are all part of maintaining an asset to standard across its working life.

These services are delivered through Synergy MariServ, the Group’s dedicated marine services and technical support capability, drawing on maritime expertise, engineering knowledge and an established global partner network to support both managed vessels and third-party owners.

Whether you are commissioning a single vessel, converting an existing asset or working through a fleet renewal programme that spans fuel choice, regulatory readiness and long-term lifecycle cost, the decisions made during the project phase will shape operational performance for decades.

Synergy Marine Projects helps owners make those decisions with engineering confidence and full accountability for the outcome.

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