Our service teams work out of Singapore, attending vessels in shipyards, alongside in port and at anchorage, as well as throughout Malaysia and Indonesia. We service equipment supplied by ourselves and by others.
Repair, refurbishment and restoration
A door that has corroded into its frame does not necessarily have to be replaced. We dismantle it on board, blast and paint the structure, renew the seals, hinges, dogs and cleats, and refit it to the opening, restored to its original condition.
- Water, weather and gas-tight doors, and fire-rated doors
- Windows, scuttles, wipers and clear view screens
- Electro-hydraulic watertight sliding doors and hydraulic hatches
- Roller shutters and outfit items
- Seal, hinge, dog and cleat renewal
- Blasting, priming and finish painting
Scheduling. Refurbishment of this kind is best carried out during a drydocking or an extended stay alongside, as the unit must be dismantled, treated and reinstated. Where a replacement unit has already been procured, a bolted-type door can generally be changed out within a day.
Scope. We do not carry out hot work on board. Bolted-type doors, hatches and covers can be changed in place; any work requiring welding remains with the shipyard.
Inspection, testing and commissioning
Equipment that must be proven before the vessel sails: tank gauging reading correctly, valve remote control responding from the control console, and doors passing their hose test.
- Hydraulic sliding doors — inspection, pre-commissioning and commissioning
- Tank gauging equipment — inspection, calibration, testing and commissioning
- Valve remote control systems — inspection, testing and commissioning
- Fixed gas sampling systems — inspection, calibration, testing and commissioning
Where class attendance is required to witness a hose test on a door or window, the shipyard arranges the survey booking and we ensure the equipment passes.
Marine automation retrofit
A shipboard control system normally reaches the end of its supported life well before the machinery it governs. Once the PLC is obsolete and replacement boards are no longer manufactured, the proposal put to the owner is usually a complete new system.
In most cases that is not required. We renew the elements that have reached end of life — processor and I/O boards, obsolete modules and the control program itself — and migrate the logic to a currently supported platform, while the existing cabinets, field wiring and instrumentation remain in service. The vessel retains its automation and its compliance without the cost and off-hire of a full replacement.
- Legacy PLC modernisation and migration to supported hardware
- PLC board and module replacement, including on board
- Marine PLC programming and reprogramming
- Control system renewal and retrofit
Work of this kind is quoted against the existing system drawings and the make and model of the installed controller.
Project management
Where a shipyard or owner prefers to hand over a complete package rather than manage it piece by piece, we take the scope end to end: engineering and drawing approval, procurement, fabrication, class liaison, site supervision, commissioning and handover documentation. One point of contact, one programme, one set of certificates.
The same applies to work outside our own trades. MTU and Detroit Diesel engine work and controllable pitch propeller servicing are handled on this basis, with the scope managed by us and the work carried out by MTU engineers.