The Dutch shipbuilding group Damen, following the an international tender to select a private partner, under a public-private partnership contract of the has established a joint venture with the government of the Senegal, through the public company Société des Infrastructures de Réparation Navale (SIRN), for acquisition, reorganization, financing, management and management of maintenance of the Dakar shipyards. At the race they had five companies: the group of companies set up from Dakarnave and Lisnave Estaleiros Namasi, the grouping of companies consisting of Damen Shipyars and Matériel Terrestre Offshore Africa, Hat-San Shipyard and Jobson Italia Srl. For example, send the bids were only the Damen group, which is the winning company, and Jobson Italia.

The Dakar shipyards have a dry dock of 191 for 25 meters and a floating dock of 235 by 38 meters.