Viking Cruise to renew decking on 32 ships

Viking Cruise to renew decking on 32 ships

Viking Cruises are starting an annual deck maintenance programme offered by Bolidt Synthetic Products & Systems. 32 vessels – more than half of the Viking Cruises fleet – will have their decking cleaned and renewed at various European ports this winter,...
Viking alert over Breathing Device deadline

Viking alert over Breathing Device deadline

VIKING Life-Saving Equipment has alerted shipowners to replace onboard Ocenco M-20.2 Emergency Escape Breathing Devices (EEBDs) as their 15-year lifespan draws to a close at the beginning of 2017. In July 2002, when SOLAS amendment regulations II-2/13.3.4 and 13.4.3...
Shaft system nominated

Shaft system nominated

Thordon Bearing’s revolutionary COMPAC seawater-lubricated propeller shaft bearing system has been nominated in the Auxiliary Machinery category of the European Marine Engineering Awards, to take place in Amsterdam, next month. Thorn offer a 15-year guarantee for...
3-month report on Damen tug

3-month report on Damen tug

Iskes Towage & Salvage took delivery of a new Damen ASD 2411 in November 2015. In its first 100 days, the tug has been performing vessel assistance duties in the locks and canals around the Dutch Ports of Amsterdam and IJmuiden. Three months after delivery of the...
24-hour underwater rudder repair in Rotterdam

24-hour underwater rudder repair in Rotterdam

Hydrex report one of their diving teams recently mobilized to a 170-meter container vessel in Rotterdam to install a doubler plate over the cavitated area of the ship’s rudder during a scheduled maintenance stop in the port. The plate had been pre-shaped in advance to...