OUR COMPANY

Merré the multispecialist of the shipbuilding industry

Merré is a shipyard who builds ships from 12 to 80 meters in steel and/or aluminum material.

Merré is wellknown as the "multispecialist" in the worldwide shipbuilding industry.

Based on both the skills and the knowledge of its teams, as well as a modern organization, Merré keeps under his expertise the entire value chain for the ship construction from architecture to the construction, equipment, sale and after-sale.

Merré is also the only French shipyard specialist of dredging, cutter suction and trailing suction hopper dredging, Genflo dredging process and all dredging equipment.

Two locations : Merré is located in Nort-sur-Erdre (headquarters and production site) and Saint-Nazaire (construction of larger vessels through the facilities of the Port and direct access to the sea).

Company skills

• Naval architects
• Engineers
• Administration staff
• Braziers
• Weldres
• Machining
• Mecanics
• Hydraulics
• Painters
• Ship fitters

Means of engineering and production

• Shipyard area = 70000 m²
• Workshop area = 7200 m²
• Offices= 300 m²
• Sandblasting / painting hall = 700 m²
• Slip way : 160 t
• Design office : AutoCad, Rhinocéros, MaatHydro, ...
• Forming hall : presses (7 m), shears, bending machines (large width), oxycutting
• Machining hall : lathes, milling, slotting, boring
• Assembly hall : aluminium, steel, stainless steel welding

Several hundred vessels built since the origin of the shipyard in 1921

• Suction dredgers
• Trailing suction hopper dredgers
• Stationary dredgers
• Pontoons
• Tugs
• Barges
• Pilot boats
• Road ferries
• Cargo vessels
• Passengers vessels
• Fishing vessels