The company was established on 1st January 1937 by the C.U.F. Group of companies when this group took over the Rocha Shiprepair Yard situated on the North bank of the Tagus estuary at Lisbon.

In September 1961 the company adopted the name Lisnave - Estaleiros Navais de Lisboa at the time when the company expanded on to the South bank of the Tagus where a new yard - Margueira, was being built, with facilities to accommodate the largest vessels needing repair at that time. On 23rd June 1967 the new yard was officially inaugurated and the facilities comprised three docks. In 1971 a new dock was opened having a capacity of 1.000.000 dwt.

In 1973 a new yard called Setenave (Estaleiros Navais de Setubal) was built by Lisnave in Setubal to cope with increased demand, both for ship repairing and shipbuilding. This has three docks, one of which has a maximum capacity of 700.000 dwt.

In mid 1997 a restructuring plan was implemented to better meet ship repair needs in the next century. This involves consolidating repair facilities at Mitrena yard in Setubal into a new entity after the general upgrading of the existing yard and the construction of 3 additional Panamax size Drydocks. This restructuring was completed at the end of 2000, with all shiprepair activities having being transferred from Margueira Yard to Mitrena Yard. All activities are now concentrated at Mitrena in Setubal.

Yard Location

The Lisnave Mitrena yard is ideally located for vessels trading or passing through Atlantic and Mediterranean waters.

Mitrena Yard is located near Setúbal, 60 Kms south of Lisbon and International Airport. The Lisbon airport has excellent connections with the world's major cities, making air traveling for personnel and manufacturers' specialists easy and facilitating the import of spare parts.

Docks

As would be expected, Lisnave yard is fully equipped with all of the necessary workshops, services and facilities necessary to carry out the wide range of tasks required of a ship repairer. The yards has ample craneage, staging, transporters for moving large sections of steel structures, dockside arms, painting and blasting equipment, air compressors, pumps and lighting units plus supplies of compressed air, gas, electricity and water.

The yard occupies an area of 1.500.000 sqm with 6 graving docks, 1400 m of wet berth, serviced by 20 travelling cranes (up to 100t) and one 500T gantry crane over dock 20 and 21

Facilities are available for housing project management teams aboard ship for the duration of a repair and office facilities are made available both on board ship and ashore for owners', superintendents, surveyors, inspectors and consultants. Lisnave holds ISPS certification as well as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 from Lloyds.