Remontowa News_1.2013

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Customer Magazine
ISSUE 1 (9) 2013
Ferry galore
Sea Horse in the dock
Siem vessels
Dredgers on the tapis
Editorial - Contents
Editorial
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Various and complex jobs...
Offshore
Various
and complex jobs...
In this issue of “Remontowa Ship Repair News”, we focus our attention
on some chosen projects which are good examples of complexity and
variety we deal with in our job at the shipyard. There are so many ships of
various types, sizes and range of works to be executed…
For the first time we welcomed such large, powerful and impressive
AHTS vessels like those operated by Siem Offshore. Some units from the
series of ten vessels of this kind belonging to the Owner’s fleet, were hosted
at docks and berths of Remontowa between mid January 2013 and late
March, mostly staying at the yard for around two weeks each.
Those ships were newcomers from Siem Offshore. During stay at the
shipyard, they were joined by our well known habitual guest, however of
a different type, at that time operated by the same Owner. A Multi Role
Service Vessel Seven Sisters had already visited Remontowa in 2011. This time
the ship departed from the yard after extensive refurbishment and under
new name Simar Esperanca, as she had changed an owner during its stay.
The visit of the Siem Offshore vessels, after an earlier conversion of
three Maersk AHTS units previously executed, was an important step in
further improvement of services dedicated to the offshore market. We are
sure that invaluable experience acquired during those works will be put
to good use in the future projects.
Another example of how important experience gathered along with
customer’s reliance is, was recent and second visit of a fall - pipe vessel in
our shipyard. The Sea Horse, rare purpose and highly specialist ship with
enhanced rock dumping capabilities had already been hosted by Remontowa in 2004. At that time she came for routine repairs. For the second time,
however, early February 2013, she arrived for definitely more complex job
and left us having its aggregate (stone) handling system completely modified.
Further interesting projects illustrating our job’s complexity and variety
we deal with were those covering dredgers. One was repaired, while another
one was newly built. And what is more, the first one came from the same
owner, who operates the fall pipe vessel mentioned before! Both dredger
projects are clear evidence of the shipyard’s ability in this area, since we
are deeply familiar with this kind of tonnage.
And last, but not least… As always in Winter, we had a ferry galore
at Remontowa. Ferry owners and operators have always been our most
reliant customers which we have long-lasting and mutually fruitful cooperation with.
See all the topics mentioned above inside this issue. Enjoy your reading!
Grzegorz Landowski,
Editor-in-Chief.
3Impressive
and powerful.
Siem AHTS
vessels at
Remontowa.
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Sea Horse
in the dock.
A fall - pipe
vessel with
enhanced
rock dumping
capabilities.
Smeraldo and Zircone
Jewels in the fleet of Finbeta.
Interview
10 Familiar with
the shipyard.
We talked
with technical
manager
at Finbeta,
captain Rinaldo
Carlevarino.
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11 Ferry galore.
In Winter this year, the biggest wave of ferries
could be seen at Remontowa.
Repairs & newbuilds
14 Barent Zanen and Kraken.
One dredger was repaired, another was newly built.
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16 Trawlers and reefers.
Not only Russian fishing vessels have showed up
at Remontowa.
19 Board and Commercial Offices.
Remontowa Ship Repair News is a quarterly customer magazine dedicated to Clients of the shipyard and of the REMONTOWA Group.
Publisher: Temat Ltd., member of the REMONTOWA Group, Na Ostrowiu 1, 80-958 Gdansk, Poland.
Editor-in-Chief: Grzegorz Landowski. Phone: +48 58 307 17 90, fax: +4858 307 12 56, e-mail: [email protected].
The content of the magazine (with the exception of photos) may be reproduced provided the source.
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Customer Magazine - ISSUE 1 (9) 2013
Offshore
Photo: Piotr Starenczak
Seven Sisters
during docking works.
Siem offshore support vessels
Impressive
and powerful
Siem Aquamarine, Garnet, Opal and Topaz belong to a
series of ten VS491 CD design, Kleven Verft built, powerful,
highly capable AHTS vessels, operated by Siem Offshore.
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Offshore
AHTS vessel Siem Topas moored at Remontowa’s quay.
Siem Offshore Inc. serves the global
oil and gas industry with a modern,
environmentally friendly and technically
advanced fleet consisting of some 45
vessels with focus on low fuel consumption, 10 of which are under construction.
The Siem Offshore’s fleet includes large
Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessels,
Platform Supply Vessels, Multipurpose
Field & ROV Support Vessel and Offshore Subsea Construction Vessels
designed to meet the most challenging
environments. The Oslo Stock Exchange
listed company operates all over the
world and provides a wide range of
services from its vessels, equipment
and experienced onshore and offshore
personnel. Its main focus is on health,
safety, environment and quality.
Safe and environmentally
friendly
As described by Siem Offshore, the
four mentioned vessels, built in 20102011, feature low fuel consumption,
extreme low emissions, maximum safe
protection for cargo and crew. The vessels are of clean design, comfort class,
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environmentally friendly and optimized
for low fuel consumption through hybrid
diesel electric-and mechanical arrangement. They are designed for towing and
anchor handling, deep water inspection
and construction work.
The vessels are equipped with a high
capacity gantry cranes for anchor and cargo
handling, which means safer working
environment for the crew. Some of these
ships are also equipped with an A-frame /
torpedo launcher (for special torpedo type
anchors). The VS 491 CD design ships,
featuring DP2 class and fi-fi 2 class, are
each 91.00 m long (over all), 22.00 m wide,
drawing 7.95 m and offering deadweight
capacity of around 3900 up to 4100 t and
800 sq m deck area. Each is manned by
crew of up to 60 persons (and may also
accommodate up to 300 rescued persons
as standby / rescue ships). At impressive
28 000 BHP main propulsion power, VS
491 CD type vessels offer approx. 285 T
up to almost 300 T bollard pull.
BWT installed
The four Siem AHTS vessels visited
Remontowa S.A. between mid January
2013 and late March, mostly staying at
the yard for around two weeks each.
They were docked for hull maintenance
and painting and have had their tunnel
and azimuthing thrusters overhauled and
repaired wherever necessary, including
thruster propeller blades regeneration.
Also ballast water separation systems
were installed on these ships. Some
steelwork was performed, mainly around
towing and anchor handling winches.
Seven Sisters departed
as Simar Esperanca
However the four AHTS vessels have
not been the only Siem Offshore ships
to be serviced at Remontowa over the
recent months. Another one arrived to
Gdansk based yard as Seven Sisters.
However, this Multi Role Service Vessel
(MRSV), left the yard under new name
Simar Esperanca, as it was meanwhile
transferred to the fleet of Subsea 7 company. As we went to press Simar Esperanca appeared to be deployed in vibrant
West African offshore industry and based
in Pointe-Noire port of Congo. This ship
had already visited Remontowa in 2011,
Offshore
The Siem vessels
were docked for hull
maintenance and
painting. Among
various works their
tunnel and azimuthing
thrusters underwent
propeller blades
regeneration.
been refurbished, upgraded or rebuilt,
such as conference room, Internet cafe,
deck office and ROV workshop. Main
engines and an auxiliary engine have
been overhauled onboard ex Seven Sisters, too. Docking, hull maintenance and
painting (not to mention name change
on ship sides and modified livery for
new Owner) have been carried out,
as well. Also offshore deck crane and
thrusters have been overhauled among
other works.
A few months earlier, at the turn of
November and December 2012, another
ship of Siem Offshore, the 82.85 m long
and 4679 t deadweight capacity Platform
Supply Vessel Siem Carrier had also
been serviced at Remontowa S.A.
Photo: Jerzy Uklejewski
undergoing the 3-years survey. Earlier
this year the 103.7 m long, 19.7 m wide
ship, drafting 6.1 m and featuring gross
tonnage of 5,275 and deadweight of
4,665 t entered Remontowa again. This
time to have its 850 sq m wooden deck
planking replaced with a new one,
including 16 tons of T-bar steel. Also
some spaces in the accommodation have
AHTS vessel Siem Aquamarine at Remontowa S.A.
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A fall - pipe vessel with enhanced rock dumping capabilities
Seahorse during docking works.
Seahorse
in the dock
„Remontowa” often receives orders for servicing or conversions of interesting,
specialized vessels. One of the ships falling into this category is undoubtely
the Seahorse - a vessel with a rare purpose (as for the world’s fleet
of commercial vessels) and specialist equipment.
World fleet of several thousand dozens ships contains
maybe some 20 units of the same kind. Seahorse, converted
from heavy-lift module carrier Snimos Ace, is a fall-pipe vessel
owned and operated by Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., a
leading global maritime services company operating in the
dredging, offshore energy and inland infra sectors.
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Rare ships
Fall-pipe vessels are able to deposit stone accurately at
great depths. The crew use a remote-controlled system to
position the end of the fall-pipe just a few metres over the
placement level. Then the stone is fed through the fall-pipe
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while the vessel moves over the destination area. This method
is frequently used in the oil and gas industry for leveling the
seabed for pipelines or to provide pipelines with a protective
layer of stone.
Boskalis has three fall-pipe vessels: the Rockpiper - recently
added, the Seahorse and the Sandpiper. The Seahorse can
be fitted with an A-frame on the aft and a remote-controlled
clamshell grab, enabling it to dredge at depths of up to 1,000
metres.
DPFV
Seahorse has already been at „Remontowa” before. In 2004
it came for routineous repairs.
This time, early February 2013, the ship arrived mainly to
have its aggregate (stone) handling system modified. Components supplied by the Owner have been installed. These
included a horizontal transporter linking the holds, allowing
for transport of stones of up to 1 m in diameter as well as a
chute - fall-pipe on port-side among other things. Installation
of new equipment called for some modification in ship’s structure, too. Stern hold was modified for rock dumping directly
from trucks, along with installation of ramps for vehicles.
In addition, the ROV platform has been modified to enable
installation of the SUD system hydraulic pack container. Also
hydraulic power cylinders of the moon-pool door have been
replaced with new ones. This is just a part of modification and
repair specification for recent Seahorse stay at „Remontowa”.
Owing to modifications carried out at „Remontowa” the
versatility of this highly capable vessel was even further
enhanced.
It worth mentioning, that the vessel took part in numerous
important, widely publicized projects, such as Nord Stream
Baltic Sea gas pipeline or Snøhvit LNG terminal.
Seahorse is a state of the art Dynamically Positioned Fallpipe Vessel (DPFV) - in other words: a -seagoing self-propelled
vessel with a fall-pipe, designed to be lowered underneath
the vessel. At the lower end of the fall-pipe a ROV is installed.
By means of dynamically positioning system, the vessel can
stay in exact position or be guided along a predefined track.
Built in 1983 at Built by Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard,
the vessel was converted by Schelde Shipyard, Vlissingen,
The Netherlands in 1998/1999. The DP Class 2 vessel feaures
overall length of 162.00 m, 38.00 m beam, 9.00 m depth, 6.34
m draught, 18,000 t deadweight capacity, 28,734 t displacement, operational depth of up to 1,500 m, sailing speed of
13.0 knots at main engines power of 6,524 kW. The ship has
two main propellers (3,220 kW each), four azimuth thrusters
(1,000 kW each) and a bow thruster (600 kW).
Involved in famous projects…
There was a chute - fall-pipe on port-side among other components installed on the ship.
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Jewels in the Fleet
of Finbeta
Smeraldo while being docked at Remontowa S.A.
Smeraldo, Zircone...
Numerous ships come to Gdansk with significant
route deviation to take advantage of high quality
and competitive services offered by “Remontowa”.
However, obviously, among ships that “Remontowa”
takes care of, there are also many regular visitors to
Polish ports. Oil products and chemical terminals often
host chemical tankers of the Italian operator Finbeta.
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Finbeta S.p.a. is a shipping company
based in Savona and controlled by the
Bertani family which operates a fleet
of chemical parcel tankers. The ships
may be regarded as “a fleet of jewels”,
as they are modern ice classed stainless
steel chemical parcel tankers with Italian names given after gemstones, with
deadweight ranging from 14 000 tons
Sapphire through 12 000 tons Turchese
(“Turquoise”) and 8000 tons Zircone
(“Zircon”) to 7000 tons Granato (“Garnet”) or Smeraldo (“Emerald”).
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Four gemstones hosted
In business for 76 years
Coming back to the Owners... The
Bertani family links with shipping go
back to 1937, when Cesare Bertani, father of the current chairman - Giovanni
- acquired his first vessel. Gradually,
the company concentrated its activities
in the transportation of fuel, diesel and
aviation fuel in the port and airport area
of Fiumicino.
Over the years, following a carefully planned diversification, Finbeta’s
operations have extended well beyond
coastal trading of CPP into the transportation of petrochemicals, vegetable oils,
specialized chemicals and acids in the
international market place.
The experience, accumulated by
the Finbeta staff through working with
specialized products, has provided them
with a unique knowledge on how to
build and operate highly sophisticated
stainless steel chemical tankers.
Following an intense newbuilding
program, Finbeta’s fleet today consists of a
number of very modern, high quality, sophisticated chemical tankers incorporating
all the latest technical and safety features.
The long-term strategy of the company is
to forge and consolidate close relationships
with a number of selected charterers and
present them with tailor-made vessels,
which will allow them to meet the everchanging face of their trade.
“Remontowa” is pleased to fit, with
its ship repair and maintenance services,
in Italian Customer’s policy of providing
high quality tonnage.
See an interview
with Technical Manager
at Finbeta on the next page...
Last year and over the several recent
months four of these ships have been
serviced at “Remontowa” - Acquamarina, Smeraldo, Turchese and Zircone,
staying at the yard for around 20 days
each.
Acquamarina, Smeraldo and Turchese were built at Cantiere Navale Mario
Morini, Ancona, Italy in 2004, 1998 and
2000 respectively, while Zircone was
delivered by Nuovi Cantieri Apuania,
Italy, in 1993. All classed by RINA, they
feature lenght overall of 136,00 m (Acqamarina), 117,00 m (Smeraldo), 136,00
m (Turchese) and 124,86 (Zircone) and
deadweight of 12 000 t (Acquamarina
and Turchese), 7014 t (Smeraldo) and
8000 t (Zircone).
In line with “parcel tanker” definition, each of these ships is able to carry
multiple grades of chemical cargoes in
smaller lots. For example 8000 dwt Zircone offers carriage of 18 grades (and
2 grades in on-deck tanks). Larger, 12
000 dwt, Acquamarina and Turchese
are each able to carry 18 grades each
at a time (plus other cargoes in 2 deck
mounted tanks). The ships are equipped
with separate and independent cargo
lines and pump for each cargo tank.
They all called at Gdansk mainly for
general repairs and overhauls as well as
hull maintenance and painting during
docking. Range of works varied somewhat from ship to ship and included,
on various ships, such tasks as: replacement of propeller (on Acquamarina,
last year), some minor damage repairs
after small collision (Turchese), and on
Smeraldo - main engines overhauls,
tunnel thrusters overhauls, rudder plate
and rudder shaft overhauls, replacement
of seals, sacrificial anodes replacement,
seawater valves overhauls, overhauls
and repairs of deep well cargo pumps
including seal replacement, some hull
steelwork, in case of some of the ships
also with replacement of deep tank bulkhead and some deck plates replacement
and repairs to bilge keels, etc.
Zircone berthed at one of the Remontowa’s quays.
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Interview
From the left:
Chikhaouli Tahar
– project manager,
cpt. Rinaldo
Carlevarino –
technical manager
at Finbeta S.p.a.
and Marcin Seroka
– manager of the
Mediterranean
Market Office at
Remontowa S.A.
Familiar with the shipyard
Gdansk Shiprepair
Yard Remontowa has
fruitfully cooperated
with Finbeta S.p.a., an
Italian shipping company
based in Savona. In the
last year we serviced
ships: Aquamarina
and Turchese, currently
we have also hosted
other ones: Smeraldo
and Zircone. We have
interviewed technical
manager at Finbeta,
captain Rinaldo
Carlevarino.
- How many ships is your fleet
consisted of?
- We operate six chemical parcel
tankers. Each one sails under the Italian flag.
- In which region do your tankers operate?
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- Mainly on the Baltic and the Northern Sea, however the operating area
depends on particular order for cargo
transportation.
- May we expect increasing of
the fleet?
- Due to extending economical crises
on the world market, we do not plan
neither any additional ships’ acquisitions
nor newbuildings.
- How often do you come to Poland?
- Twice or triple a year, depending on
the schedule of our ships maintenances.
I travel to Poland each time when our
ship is decided to visit a yard and that’s
why I always come to Gdansk!
- But, why do you come to our
town and shipyard?
- (Laugh) Because, your shipyard is
the best one!
- How long has Finbeta cooperated with Remontowa?
- Since 1994. The first ship serviced
at the yard was Cristalo.
- So, what is a reason, that you
want to entrust us a job?
- Well, the reason is very simple. In
my opinion, you deliver high quality
services and reasonable prices, better
than offered by other yards. We realize,
that prices of your services has come up
over time, but quality still keeps high
levels. The balance between prices and
quality still testifies in your favour.
- You have certainly been to many
ship repair yards worldwide. What
are our advantages in comparison
to those companies?
- In my opinion, you are the best
shipyard in the Baltic region. Referring
to the Mediterranean Sea, there are
some similarities between Remontowa in
Gdansk and Gemak shipyard in Turkey,
since they offer comparable services.
You have well qualified staff and as
the company you keep invariably high
standards of quality.
- In this year we have repaired
two ships of yours. Do you have your
ship repair plan accomplished?
- No, we are going to have yet another vessel serviced and she will probably go to Gdansk, again.
- Travelling to Poland, have you
have enough time to know our better
our country?
- Unfortunately not. My duties fulfill
my whole daily routine and I haven’t
time for sight – seeing. When a project
is completed, I sail ahead.
- Have you got any time to know
the Tricity?
- I have fallen in love with the Old
Town of Gdansk, which has been beautifully restored. I also like the Sopot pier
and I have also seen Gdynia. The latter,
however, being quite a new city didn’t
move me so deeply since it’s not so
magic as Gdansk is.
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Frequent visitors at Remontowa S.A.
Ferry galore
Scane moored at Remontowa quay
with its new „wavy” Stena Line livery.
Winter is a time of a bit of slowdown in traffic for many ferry operators so
it is a good period for some refreshing and rejuvenating touches to their ships.
This year, as always, the biggest wave of ferries could be seen at Remontowa.
Competitivenes and quality renown
of Remontowa attracts not only Baltic
ferries from nearby routes. The turn of
2012 and 2013 with surrounding periods,
saw several ferries coming even from
English Channel for refurbishments,
upgrades and repairs to the shipyard.
Skane - large and versatile
Skane, world’s largest combi (rail,
car and passenger) ferry when delivered
in 1998 by Puerto Real AESA shipyard,
still holds one of the top few positions
among the world’s largest ships of this
kind. The approx. 200 m long ferry features deadweight of 7290 tons and ro-ro
lane length of 3295 m and rail tracks
length of 1100 m.
Skane itself and similar - although not
a sistership - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
have already been serviced at Remontowa in the past. Recent visit of Scane
in Gdansk, commenced late December
2012.
Besides many routineous works performed one of the most significant tasks
was replacing deck covering for rail
cargo deck no. 3 with new one. The old
wooden cover planking was stripped to
give way for new asphalt covering and
rubber filling in some places.
From October 2012, Stena Line has
been taking over five ferry routes purchased from Scandlines: TravemündeVentspils, Travemünde-Liepaja,
Nynäshamn-Ventspils, Rostock-Trelleborg and Sassnitz-Trelleborg. Obviously,
ferries associated with these routes have
not changed their colors overnight. It
was done gradually, during consecutive
visits of the ferries in shipyards. So it
happened with Skane at its recent stay
at Remontowa. The impressive ferry left
the Gdansk based yard in its new „wavy”
Stena Line livery.
Crown Seaways,
ex Crown of Scandinavia
Skane, mentioned before, was not
the only ferry to change skin at Remontowa recently. Also Crown of Scandinavia got a new livery in Gdansk, along
with a new name. The Owner and
Operator - DFDS Seaways - launched a
scheme of standarization of ship naming
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spaces with a wide range of amenities
and attractions onboard. Crown of Scandinavia (built in 1994, featuring gross
tonnage of 35 498) returned to service
on 18 January as Crown Seaways after a
big refit at the Remontowa yard, including almost complete interior renovation
with work to upgrade restaurants, night
club and bars, conference rooms and
cabins. There was also extensive mechanical works schedule, shot blasting
and repainting of underwater areas done
at Remontowa.
pattern across its fleet over the recent
years. Crown of Scandinavia was one
of the last ships in Danish Owner’s fleet
to receive „Seaways” suffix name, thus
being part of completion of the fleet renaming cycle. However this was not the
main reason for coming to Remontowa,
as the ship arrived as the first one to be
serviced in 2013, on January 3rd.
Ferries on the Copenhagen-Oslo
route not only offer beautiful sights in
fjords on the approaches to Oslo, but
also high standard of cabins and public
Yet another ferry to change name
during stay at Remontowa over the recent months was Calais Seaways, which
left the yard as such, but arrived under
the name Norman Spirit.
DFDS Seaways have welcomed the
newly renamed Calais Seaways to its
Dover-Calais fleet after extensive refit
at Remontowa. Formerly known as the
Norman Spirit, the Calais Seaways has
undergone an extensive refurbishment
programme in Gdansk, bringing it in line
with the DFDS branding.
The cross-Channel vessel sailed from
the port of Calais under its new name
and livery for the first time on Sunday
17th March. In addition to her new
exterior, the Calais Seaways has also
had significant changes to her onboard
facilities, many of which have been
upgraded or renewed. Internal renovations include a new forward lounge,
which now comprises a brand new café
area called the Opal Bar, as well as new
carpets, flooring and toilet facilities. The
onboard shop has also been renovated.
Facilities for freight drivers have also
been improved, with the completely
Painting
of Normandie.
Norman Spirit arrived
Calais Seaways departed...
Normandie is a regular visitor of Remontowa S.A, .where she underwent a refit last Winter.
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Norman Spirit departed from Remontowa as Calais Seaways.
refurbished Road Kings restaurant, as
well as a new relaxation area, showers
and toilets for the exclusive use of commercial drivers.
Along with the name, also the ship’s
livery was changed. The L.D. ferries one
was replaced with DFDS Seaways markings. Interestingly, this has been already
the second change of livery this ship has
undergone at Remontowa in relatively
short period of time. Late Spring 2011 the
ship arrived at Remontowa as Ostend Spirit
and after refurbishment, left Gdansk based
yard as Norman Spirit in new livery.
Adding to the above, a wide range of
mechanical repair works and overhauls
have been performed.
Normandie of Brittany Ferries
Although neither the biggest nor
the newest ship, Normandie is a valued
member of the Brittany Ferries’ fleet.
Not only liked by passengers, but also
praised by shiplovers and shipspotters.
They welcomed with content the fact
that the company invested in considerable refit last Winter, showing desire to
continue her service for many years to
come.
The wide ranging refit of the ferry
Normandie was entrusted to Remontowa. Once again in case of Brittanny
Ferries, as the French operator is highly
valued and long lasting partner and customer of Gdansk based yard and several
ships this renowned Owner seem to feel
at home in Gdansk as they have kept on
returning to Remontowa.
During Normandie’s refit at Remontowa, one of the main focuses was
her machinery, and in particular her
engines, gearboxes, propellers and
generators. The specification of the refit
is far beyond available space in this
magazine, so let us just mention that
besides wide ranging overhaul and repairs in engine room, also rudders and
tunnel thrusters were overhauled (the
blades of the latter have been renewed
and their motors overhauled), as well
as propeller blades replaced with new
ones. There were also works on car
decks, including cleaning and painting. Externally, new paints have been
applied too, including on underwater
part of hull, while the ship was docked.
Above the waterline in turn, the livery
was slightly changed comparing to one
in which the ship arrived in Gdansk.
Last but not least also refurbishment in
public spaces and cabins was carried
out during last Winter’s Normandie stay
at Remontowa.
Last but not least
- a Polish ferry
Also Polish ferry operators’ ferries
are quite often serviced at Remontowa.
Among most recents visits was that of
Polonia, Polish ferry fleet’s flagship,
owned (through subsidiary) by Polish
Steamship Company of Szczecin (Poland’s largest shipping company) and
operated by Unity Line (Polish Steamship Co. group member).
When docked, this ferry, certainly
not a small one, was surrounded by
scaffoldings as one of the tasks ordered
by the Owner was overall painting of
the hull and superstructures. Among
many other items of extensive works
schedule during 12 days stay of the
ferry at Remontowa, also propellers and
long propeller shafts (the latter for the
first time on this 1995 built ferry) were
temporarily removed for overhaul in
workshop.
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Repairs & newbuilds
One dredger repaired,
another built…
Barent Zanen
and
Kraken
Barent Zanen
at Remontowa S.A.
Recently, two dredgers could be met at Remontowa for some time. It is nothing unusual
as dredgers of renowned owners are not a rare sight at the shipyard. On this occasion,
however, one dredger underwent repair works while another one was newly built.
The first dredger mentioned above
was Barent Zanen operated by the
Dutch Owner, Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. which is a leading global
maritime services company active in the
dredging, offshore energy and inland
infra sectors. Built at IHC Smit B.V. yard
in 1984 and BV classed, with dredging
freeboard for trading area up to 15 miles
offshore, it is equipped with dynamic
positioning and tracking system. The
ship features 9,773 gross tonnage, 133.58
m length overall, 23.13 m beam, 10.00
m depth, 5.66 m max. draught when
empty, Int. load line draft of 7.95 m
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and 8.81 m max. draught at dredging
load line. Barent Zanen offers carrying
capacity (deadweight) of 14 335 t and
hopper capacity of 8116 cu m. Each of its
two suction pipes is 1.00 m in diameter
and allows for dredging at depths up
to 49.00 m. Its sailing speed in loaded
condition is 13.5 kn at total installed
power of 12,658 kW.
Trailing suction
hopper dredger
Barent Zanen falls into „trailing suction hopper dredgers” category. She can
operate independently of other equipment being able to dredge and transport
material over long distances. The material can be discharged through hatches
in the bottom of the ship or by pumping,
either rainbowing or through a pipeline,
for land reclamation or beach nourishment. Boskalis has around 30 trailing
suction hopper dredgers, including one
of the world’s largest, the Queen of the
Netherlands.
Barent Zanen arrived to „Remontowa” at the turn of the year 2012 and
2013 with a wide range of works specified. The range of ordered shiprepair
Repairs & newbuilds
More recently another Royal Boskalis
trailing suction hopper dredgers was
serviced at „Remontowa” - somewhat
smaller comparing to Barent Zanen the Shoalway.
Valuable addition
The newbuilding, contracted at Remontowa in May 2012, was christened
mid March 2013 and delivered shortly
afterwards. Named Kraken, it is a valuable new addition to Poland’s largest
dredging company PRCiP (Dredging and
Underwater Works Enterprise).
According to Zbigniew Barański,
CEO of PRCiP, selection of “Remontowa” SA as the yard to build and
deliver a new dredger was drawn
from the trust this yard enjoys on the
market and from confidence that the
new unit will represent high quality
at competitive price. „Remontowa” SA
and PRCiP have been tied for years
by fruitful co-operation. Dredgers and
self propelled split barges from PRCiP
fleet visit „Remontowa” for repairs and
maintenance. Two PRCiP grab dredgers
were built at the shipyard in 1971 and
they perform excellently till the present
days, which evidently proves the high
quality of craftsmanship „Remontowa”
is able to deliver.
Concept design of the dredger has
been conceived by Szczecin based naval
architecture consultancy, while workshop drawings have been developed by
Remontowa Marine Design & Consulting. The keel for Kraken was laid on
July 26, 2012. The steel hull, weighing
280 tons, was launched on October 24
last year by two floating cranes working
in tandem - Maja and „Remontowa’s”
own REM 220.
Kraken is a non-self propelled
backhoe dredge barge. As such it will
be operated in ports approaches and
roadsteds, ports, river estuaries, etc.
The unit, manned by six persons, features length of 35 m, 14 m beam, 2,75
m depth and 1,38 m draft. At the bow
a modern excavator of Liebherr make
with capacity of 3.5 cu. m is installed
allowing for dredging depth up to 15
m below the waterline. The dredger is
equipped with spuds lowered to the
seabed for stabilization during dredging
operations.
and maintenance tasks was even expanded so the ship remained at the yard
for longer than average. Extensive yard
schedule for Barent Zanen included
loads of shipboard piping works in
addition to suction pipes, hull and superstructure maintenance and painting,
also minor steel replacement works, but
in quite a many regions of hull - both in
outer hull, the hopper hold and in and
around bottom hatches, have been performed. Among numerous other works,
one of the windlasses has had its deck
foundation replaced, while windlasses
were taken to workshop for overhaul,
repairs and maintenance.
Among the most recent jobs of Barent
Zanen renewed earlier this year at „Remontowa” was at Colwyn Bay, where the
dredger spent ten days pumping ashore
thousands of tonnes of dredged sand from
the Irish Sea to raise the town’s beach
levels in connection with a sea-defence
improvement project. As we went to
press the most recent sightings of Barent
Zanen were recorded off Felixstowe and
while extensively dredging up and down
in Maasvlakte 2, a huge Port of Rotterdam
Authority development project, related to
the expansion of the Port of Rotterdam.
Kraken
newly built
by Remontowa S.A.
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Repairs
Russian market presence revived
Frio Arkhangelsk
spent almost 40 days
at „Remontowa”.
Trawlers
and reefers
Over the last few years more and
more Russian ships have showed up at
Remontowa S.A. Recently these have mostly
been fishing vessels. However ships of other
types call at our quays and docks, as well.
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Repairs
One of the recent examples was
a reefer named Frio Arkhangelsk. The
ship, built in 1993 at 61 Communards
Shipbuilding in Nikolayev, Ukraine, is
owned and managed by Arctic Shipping
of St.Petersburg, Russia. The reefer has
been mainly operated as a fishing fleet
supply and frozen fish transport vessel
over the recent years and sailing often
between St. Petersburg and fishing
grounds. More recently, as we went to
press, it was seen in the North Sea and
Dutch ports. In January 2013, when
Frio Arkhangelsk was being serviced,
four other Russian ships were present
at „Remontowa” as well.
Frio Arkhangelsk
The ship brought to „Remontowa”
by Arctic Shipping features 6,971 gross
tonnage, 7,911 t deadweight, 134,10 m
length, 18,20 m beam and 7 m draught. By
the way - last year „Remontowa” hosted
and serviced a sister ship Frio Murmansk.
With quite considerable specification of
pre-planned repairs and additional works
ordered on site Frio Arkhangelsk spent almost 40 days at „Remontowa”. Majority of
workload was related to steel replacement
in foundations of 8 cargo winches and 20
auxiliary winches. The ship has also underwent typical on-dock maintenance and
repairs, including cleaning and painting of
hull, overhauls, repairs or replacement of
sacrificial anodes, sea chest - bottom valves
and side valves, dismantling of rudder plate
for overhaul, replacement of stern tube seal
and liner, and lots of minor works. After
Frio Arkhangelsk, another sister ship visited
„Remontowa” for repairs and maintenance
(for a month from March 23 till April 21) the Frio Petropavlovsk.
Fishing vessels
When it comes to fishing vessels,
around two month servicing of two
sister ships Kurshskaya Kosa and Lira
Another Russian large
trawler serviced at
“Remontowa” was Boris
Syromyatnikow.
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Repairs
was completed in January. Both ships,
120.47 m long over all, 107.00 m long
b.p., 19.00 m wide, 12.22 m deep to
upper deck, featuring load draught of
average 6.63 m, displacement of 9260
tons and deadweight of 3459 tons at
approx. 7700 gross tonnage, belong to
“Moonzund” type (Atlantik 488 design)
fishing freezer canner super trawler
series, of which as many as 37 units
were built from 1986 to 1993 at VEB
Volkswerft Stralsund in former Eastern
Germany (GDR), while Kurshskaya Kosa
and Lira themselves were both built in
1989. Several trawlers of Murmansk
Trawl Fleet were re-equipped and their
freezing capacity increased to 200 tons
per 24 h. Further modifications carried
Lira and Kurshskaya Kosa
Lira was extensively refurbished
and upgraded (including re-engining
and total renewal / replacement of fish
processing plant) at „Remontowa” last
year. During its recent stay there was
a range of repairs carried out, such as
related to cargo tanks hatches, hold no.
1, accommodation ladders replacement,
lifeboat motors replacement, numerous
overhauls and repairs in engine room
and main switchboard.
Kurshskaya Kosa in turn came for a
considerable workload of various minor
repair works. Of more significant repairs,
there was two main engines overhauled
and a pump replaced in engine room,
just to mention a few.
Boris Syromyatnikow
Another Russian large trawler to be
serviced at „Remontowa” recently was
Boris Syromyatnikow - also representing
the East Germany built Atlantik 488 type.
She called to „Remontowa”, right after
change of Owners and change of home
port from Murmansk to Kaliningrad, for
general overhaul and repairs, including docking and hull maintenance and
painting. Adding to this, also propeller
shaft and propeller blades, rudder plate
and shaft as well as bottom valves have
been overhauled and stern tube seal
replaced... and last but not least (important safety issue) lifeboat davits have
been tested.
Lira and Kurshskaya Kosa
berthed stern by stern.
out on some of these ships, at various
yards (including „Remontowa”) at varied
times, changed their capabilities further.
Initially, as built, the purpose of Atlantic
488 type vessels was pelagic and ground
fishing, production of frozen and canned
fish, fish meal, fish-liver oil and transport
of processed cargo to port or transfer to
fishing grounds support reefers. Some
of the ships from the series have been
re-engined meanwhile, but initially they
were equipped with twin 3600 BHP
main engines (6VDS 48/42 AL-2) for
speed of 15.0 knots. They each provided
accommodation for 115 persons crew.
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