Lisnave: Where time is the most important thing.

Lisnave is a shipyard who´s plan is to improve the condition of vessels and its purpose is to keep the ocean clean; and to create sustainable employment. It is located in Setubal, 60 km south from Lisbon. It has 6 docks which covers approximately 9.000 sq. metres and facilities included are: fire fighting systems, cleaning systems, hydrolift systems and others to keep clean the installations. Also they have acquired 35 million Euros to update the service and facilities.

Lisnave is a private company; which has shares owned by a variety of other companies. The Portuguese navy vessel company has 73%, 3% is owned by the State which is more of a symbolic participation, a German company has 20% and other private owners is equivalent to 20%(used to be 40%).

Employment in Lisnave is permanent and also temporary, according to the needs; at the moment there are 2500 people working for the company.

Service offered by the company is that they could potentially take over 50 vessels a week which is approximately around 3000 people; and flexibility is very important to answer the clients demands.

2008 was a very good year for the company; vessels were brought from all over the world, from 70 different clients. There are many repeat clients as they are pleased with the service offered. For Lisnave they feel that time is the most important factor, and other than the quality and efficiency of the service which exceeds this, it is the second most important thing, more important than the money; the longer the ship stays in the yard the slower the service and therefore there is a decline in economy in the client.

The shipyard is well placed; geographically were it is positioned means that many ships can access it and all commercial lines pass through here, and there are also good weather conditions here, which means ships can pass through here with little damage and safe journety through.

Overall the company has a focus; which has 3 aims: the first is to ensure all clients are safe, the second is environmental protection and the third is quality of service, they are also keen on education(training) in order to warrantee the future of the company, and have invested 6 million Euros into doing so, for more than 200 students.