There is virtually no building of new vessels at all in Sweden any more, only repair shipyards for large vessels.

In some concerns, such as the big repair shipyards in Swinoujscie on the Baltic coast, it is only 10 percent.

Casino Express got some serious damages that had to be repaired; six days after the grounding the ship was pulled from the reef and then towed to a repair shipyard in Estonia.

Alandia suffered some damages and could not continue to Vaasa; she was instead sent of to a repair shipyard in Mariehamn and RG Line was once again without a ship.

Upon return from her 1964 Western Pacific deployment, Navarro underwent a Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization overhaul at Pacific Ship Repair Shipyard, San Francisco.

Similarly, Irving Shipbuilding purchased the Shelburne Ship Repair shipyard in Shelburne and the Pictou Shipyard in Pictou to support the Halifax-class project.

The company initiated a major refit at the Blohm + Voss repair shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, before her inaugural cruise on February 13, 2008 to Florida-her base for Caribbean cruising.

In August 2010, the Arleigh Burke entered the BAE Systems Ship Repair shipyard in Norfolk, VA for DDG Modernization, a program to upgrade the ship's systems and to extend service life to 40 years.

She had to steam to the East Coast of the United States for repairs in New York because all of the repair shipyards on the West Coast were heavily overloaded with American warships that had been damaged by Japanese kamikazes.