Launch

Launching of the First Floating Island in the world to sea. 

Workshops of the Floating Island

With some 300 engineers and skilled technicians rotating on the job, our workshops and shipyards across the country are operating around the clock, and by the most demanding international standards, to meet the spring of 2015 launch date in the Tripoli Shipyard. The staff will be boosted to 560 highly skilled Engineers, Technicians and Administrators.

Hart Sakhr:  Design and manufacturing workshop operating since 2009

First Fiberglass House

In 2007, a house made of fiberglass sandwich panels which has a theoretical lifetime of 400 years, advanced sound-proofing, thermal insulation, fire resistant and earthquake resistant, was built and inhabited in one month.In 2009, the first workshop of the floating island was built in Hart Sakhr, Lebanon. 

Accreditation from Bureau Veritas

The first application of the Advanced Engineering of the Floating Island Dhow 4 was accredited and admitted by the French Marine Society, Bureau Veritas, on June 29^th 2005. 

Catamaran prototype

In 2005,a catamaran prototype (12m x5m x 5.3m) was launched  at Dr. Talal Al Shair’s company, Shairco Factories in Yanbuh KSA, with full success. 

Dr. Talal Bin Ali Al Shair

A leading Arabian industrialist pioneers the investment in the Advanced Engineering of the Floating Island Dhow 4.

Investment & Industrial Hypothesis

Launching years of the Advanced Engineering Dhow 4

Successful testing of the Prototype

In 1998 the (prototype scale 1:10)is completed and simulated successfully in water.

KabrAshmoon Site Launch

Workshop expanded to meet the fabrication requirements. The new workshop at KabrAshmoon starts operation of steel fabrication begins. 

Site Launches

Tripoli: assembly workshop operating since 2012
KabrAshmoon: storage facility and manufacturing workshop operating since 2013