US-based Choice Ballast Solutions is working closely with the Scorpio team to offer turnkey services for the retrofits and will represent the owner at the shipyards involved. Earlier this year Scorpio Tankers placed
contracts for a total of 55 Ecochlor ballast water treatment systems for retrofit on its product carriers, which range in size from 38,000 dwt to over 100,000 dwt. Installations of this technology are expected to begin before the end of this year and continue to the end of 2022. Choice is the engineering integration firm hired by Scorpio to install the systems manufactured by Ecochlor.
Te French company Bio-Sea received
USCG type approval for its technology in June this year, and this confirmed the technology’s ability to treat freshwater without any limitations. As a result of that confirmation, the company has received an order for a Bio-Sea BO6-0750 unit for retrofit to the 11,800dwt tank barge John. J Carrick, operated by McAshphalt on the Great Lakes. Bio-Sea claims its technology
is currently the only ballast water treatment system on the market without any limitations as to the time treated
freshwater has to be held before discharge overboard. “Tis has a real commercial and operational advantage for vessels operating on the Great Lakes,” comments Xavier Deval, business director, Bio-Sea. “With competitor systems, Great Lakes’ operators would typically have to wait 72 hours following treatment before they are allowed to discharge the water and with a large number of ships trading on the Lakes, this can delay schedules and result in loss of earnings. Tis was a key concern for McAsphalt and one of the reasons Bio-Sea was selected.” SR
ankers brighten Lisnave’s operations
While market conditions overall remain testing for the Portuguese shipyard, tanker repairs have been something of a bright spot
the year, resulting from the combined effects of depressed conditions in many shipping markets and an increase in global competition for shiprepair work. Nevertheless, the number of vessels repaired by the yard has increased compared with the same period of 2017, with the tanker market proving a particularly strong segment for Lisnave. Maintaining its traditional profile as a
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specialist tanker shiprepair yard, Lisnave repaired 34 tankers during the first three quarters of 2018, and this represented around 52% of the number of ships – 65 vessels in all – that docked in these months. Tanker visitors to the yard included eight DP2 type shuttle tankers and 20 chemical/ product tankers. Compared with the equivalent period
of 2017, Lisnave’s tanker market grew by 6% in terms of the total number of vessels repaired. Te chemical/product sector in particular saw a 33% growth rate, while the volume of shuttle tanker work was up by more than 60%. Lisnave’s tanker activity is based largely
around repeat business for established operators. Companies that docked tankers over the year to date have included European Product Carriers; Teekay Shipping; Tsakos
Shiprepair & Maintenance 4th Quarter 2018
Columbia Shipmanagement;
V.Ships; Solvang; Columbus Shipmanagement; Anglo-Eastern Shipmanagement; Qatar Shipping and A.P. Moller. Te company has secured a particularly significant amount of business from shipowners in Greece, accounting for close to 20% of its workload. Norwegian and German owners have also been prominent supporters of the yard to date in 2018. Most of the tanker repairs this year have
been ‘medium to large’ projects, and none were especially notable in terms of the content of the scope of work. However, Lisnave reports it has successfully carried out five ballast water treatment system installations involving tankers over the first nine months of the year.
isnave reports a continuation of generally adverse market conditions over the first nine months of
Teekay has
docked a number of its shuttle
tankers, including Samba Spirit, at Lisnave
Tose tanker visitors to the yard so
far in 2018 that have required relatively significant packages of work have included the Teekay-owned Explorer Spirit, Samba Spirit, Lambada Spirit and Bossa Nova Spirit; Sonangol Luanda; Maersk Misumi; European Product Carriers’ Elka Leblon, Elka Parana; and Brasil Knutsen. Overall, Lisnave expects that the
volume of shiprepair business at the yard in 2018 will be similar to 2017. It is more optimistic as to the future and believes that the entry into force of international ballast water and sulphur gas emissions regulations is likely to enhance activity for 2019 and 2020, delivering a particular benefit for their core tanker market. SR
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