Celebrating 50 Years: International Shipcare’s Golden Anniversary Dinner

Key Takeaways

• International Shipcare (ISC) marked its 50th anniversary with a dinner celebration on 7 October 2025
• Founded in 1975, ISC has spent five decades pioneering vessel layup at the world’s first officially gazetted layup anchorage
• The milestone reflects a track record of 1,500+ vessels laid up and reactivated, 100+ vessel owners served, and over 9 million hours without a Lost Time Incident
• The evening brought together ISC’s team to mark the company’s history and its continued role in the maritime layup industry

Half a Century in the Layup Industry

In 1975, International Shipcare set out to do something no one else in the region was doing: provide dedicated, professional vessel layup services. Fifty years later, that original commitment has grown into a track record most companies in the maritime industry would consider extraordinary — over 1,500 vessels laid up and reactivated, more than 100 vessel owners served, and a position as the trusted name in lay-up at Brunei Bay, Sabah, the world’s first officially gazetted lay-up anchorage.

Reaching a 50th anniversary is a rare milestone in any industry, and rarer still in a specialized maritime service like layup, where trust is built vessel by vessel, owner by owner, over decades.

An Evening to Mark the Milestone

On 7 October 2025, the ISC team gathered for a dinner celebration to mark the occasion — an evening set aside to reflect on five decades of growth, from the company’s earliest days at Brunei Bay to its current standing as a certified, internationally recognized layup specialist under LRQA and Lloyd’s Register.

Anniversaries like this are as much about the people who built the company’s reputation as they are about the milestone number itself. Fifty years of operations means fifty years of crews, engineers, and shore teams whose work — often unseen by the shipowners whose vessels they preserve — is what actually built the track record ISC stands on today.