BOURBON optimizes Class Dockings for its vessels with new organization Bourbon Docking. Located in Dubai, this new organization will strengthen BOURBON’s vessel maintenance program, allowing the Group to reach its 2015 target rate of 95% vessel availability. According to BOURBON 2015 Leadership Strategy plan, the Group’s growth strategy is based on the mass-building of vessels in series. This initiative substantially reduces costs, not only for construction and procurement but also, just as importantly, for vessel maintenance. Bourbon Docking will optimize the benefits of this strategy. “Due to the rapid growth of BOURBON’s fleet, the company will standardize Class Dockings using common specifications for all sister ships,” explains Stéphane Burgaud, Bourbon Docking Managing Director.