Health Monitoring System Keeps an Eye on the Fleet
When you’re out at sea, the last thing you need is a major breakdown. In such a case, it would mean being towed back to dry dock for expensive repairs – and that’s something that hard-pressed shipping companies can do without. One way around this is to keep a constant watch over onboard assets condition, and SKF has helped one shipping customer to do this – introducing condition monitoring to its ship, with plans to extend the service to other vessels in the fleet. Condition monitoring is a vital resource in any industry, as it helps to protect assets from sudden failure.
100th PMI Auto-tuning Retrofit Package Sold
MAN PrimeServ, MAN Diesel & Turbo’s service division, has announced the 100th sale of its Pressure Measuring Instrument (PMI) Auto-tuning retrofit package. The MSC Filippa, a 2011-built, 13,400-teu containership owned by Germany’s Peter Döhle Group, will be retrofitted to accommodate the system. Hagen Koslowski, Technical Director of Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG, said, “The main driver for us in ordering PMI Auto-tuning was to reduce fuel consumption and therefore become more attractive to the charter market.
Online Monitoring Systems Can Improve Your Bottom Line
All operators, regardless of vessel type, size, location or function, are plagued by the same worries: “When will my next outage happen, and what is it going to cost me?” In an effort to ease these concerns, millions of dollars are invested every year into commercial/workboat maintenance programs. But how can maintenance be maximized without blowing budgets? What’s the most thorough way to monitor equipment? How can all mechanical components be watched for possible issues and failures?
Ship Equip’s 1000th Order for SEVSAT
Ship Equip announced the 1000th order for its SEVSAT system. The SEVSAT solution (which stands for Ship Equip VSAT) provides reliable and cost-effective satellite communications for a wide variety of vessels at sea. Core markets for Ship Equip include shipping, commercial fisheries, offshore oil/gas and megayachts. Ship Equip’s 1000th SEVSAT order came as part of a recently signed large fleet contract for 67 vessels. The milestone-reaching order culminated several years of accelerated growth for the company, based in Ålesund Norway with offices in Oslo, Houston, Seattle, Singapore, London and Reykjavik. Since its initial launch in 2003…
