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2010-08 - ShipMaintenance Marcos
2010-08 - ShipMaintenance Marcos
G
iven current market conditions, the Most agencies perform surveys or inspections in a
desire of owners to keep tight prescriptive manner. The selected compartments are
control of maintenance, repair, and inspected based on experience and work instructions
drydocking expenses is provided to the surveyor or inspector. The presence of
understandable. By adopting a critical areas and suspect areas in a compartment may or
rationalized approach to the may not be highlighted in these instructions.
inspection of the hull structure— Ideally, the inspection results from the various agencies
whether of a ship or an offshore should be analyzed by the owner and compiled into a
unit—and a methodology on what to inspect, when to repair/drydock specification list. But typically, much of the
inspect, where to inspect, and how much to inspect, owners inspection data may not be formatted in a way, or contain
can take a major step towards more effective maintenance sufficient detail, to allow for easy conversion into a repair
and reduced maintenance and repair (M&R) expenses. specification. At the time of repair there may be some
Traditionally shipowners, offshore rig operators, and surprises as the compartment condition has not been
vessel managers have in-house hull inspection schemes and adequately assessed beforehand.
programs to track, assess, and maintain the hull structure.
Inspections to assess hull condition are also performed by Hull Inspection Program
many agencies such as classification societies, vetting The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has addressed this
agencies, and port and flag state authorities. This inspection situation through the development of a comprehensive, ship
data tends to be collected in a variety of forms, or offshore unit-specific, yet easy-to-use, software-based
checksheets, and reports. Hull Inspection Program (HIP) for owners. The society also
offers an optional notation based on comprehensive
Editor’s note : This article was originally published in August guidelines, appropriate training for the crew, and the
2009 Activities magazine, an American Bureau of Shipping implementation of the associated software.
(ABS) publication, and is reproduced here with permission. It must be emphasized, however, that the responsibility
Conclusion
By adopting a more formalized method
for hull inspection, an owner will have
begun moving towards a more
rationalized approach to structural
integrity management. The concept can
be applied by a small fleet operator with
simple spreadsheets. For an operator
with a large fleet, a sophisticated
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