Customer Magazine ISSUE 4 (35) 2020 The year of green retrofits A tribute to the X-PRESS FEEDERS Russian American hero container ships… arctic icebreaker The ship commemorating …for the first time We brought azimuth thruster Major Richard Winters at our premises! back to full operation in magazine Page 5 Page 16 Page 24 editorial contents Customer Magazine ISSUE 4 (35) 2020 The year The third wave of green retrofits A tribute to the X-PRESS FEEDERS Russian American hero container ships… arctic icebreaker The ship commemorating …for the first time We brought azimuth thruster Major Richard Winters at our premises! back to full operation magazine of uncertainty in Page 5 Page 16 Page 24 The year 2020 will certainly go agement during the COVID-19 3 Mont St Michel began down in history as the most difficult pandemic that was crucial in the ferry repair season at in track record of the global econ- operations of all shipyards world- Remontowa omy. Once COVID-19 vaccines wide. Remontowa has managed had appeared and began to be dis- this very well. The procedures put 5 The ship commemorating tributed, there was hope for a pro- in place at a very early stage to pre- Major Richard Winters gressive return to normality. How- vent coronavirus infection, backed 7 LPG carriers arrived for ever, there is still uncertainty as to up by good cooperation with Ship- special surveys and BWMS whether the third wave of the pan- owners, resulted in safe project ex- installations demic will strike and with what ef- ecution. fect. Our performance in the repair 9 Largest Polish bulk As Steve Gordon, Managing Direc- sector has also been recognised carriers like mountains tor of Clarkson Research points out by market intelligence specialist in his analysis „Ship Repair Mar- Clarkson Research. In its „Top 10 The Star Care reefer ket Review”: „Although the glob- Repair Yards by Region” ranking, ship retrofitted with al economic impact of COVID-19 published in World Fleet Moni- scrubber has been much deeper than the fi- tor (data as of December 2020), 13 We hosted seagoing nancial crisis, the shipping industry among the world’s top 10 ship- and river ships owned by seems to have managed the eco- yards ranked by total repair and Wilson ASA nomic disruption generally better refurbishment events in 2020, by than initially feared”. He also em- number of projects Remontowa 16 X-PRESS FEEDERS joins pahizes, that following the initial ranked 5th, being the only Euro- the circle of our Clients COVID-19 related disruption, ship pean shipyard listed there. repair activity seems to have now We have also been among the 20 Swedish self-unloading stabilised. bulk carrier followed its 20 ship repair yards in the world three predecessors For Remontowa Shiprepair Yard, that have carried out the most 2020 was the year of retrofits. special surveys, being ranked 21 Next car carriers in our Shipowners entrusted us to carry 3rd among non-Chinese yards docks out a total of almost 40 modernisa- and 1st in Europe in this respect. tion projects on their ships, involv- We would like to thank all our Cli- 23 Vox Amalia ready to ing the installation of both BWMS ents, without whose contribution dredge the fairway leading and scrubbers, which is the larg- this success would not have been to the Polish port est amount in recent years. possible. We are ready for coop- 24 We brought the Russian Along with ship repairs for our reg- eration in 2021, wishing all the arctic icebreaker’s azimuth ular and returning Clients, we also Shipowners as well as ourselves thruster back to full welcomed Shipowners who en- a speedy recovery from the lock- operation gaged our services for the very first down and a return to some sort of time. normality. 26 The historic Polish coal- In 2020, it was not only the sheer Grzegorz Landowski ore carrier underwent the ability to manage projects and pro- Communications Director biggest renovation in 35 cesses, but also good health man- REMONTOWA HOLDING years! Remontowa Ship Repair News is a customer magazine of Remontowa Shiprepair Yard, member of Remontowa Holding SA Publisher: PORTALMORSKI.PL Ltd., Na Ostrowiu 1, 80-958 Gdańsk, Poland. email: [email protected] The content of the magazine may be reproduced (except images) provided the source is acknowledged. 2 ISSUE 4(35) 2020 retrofits remontowa ship repair news Mont St Michel moored at the quay of Remontowa in December 2020. Photo: Marcin Koszałka Brittany Ferries has started the winter ferry repair season in our yard Mont St Michel compliant with BWM Convention Mont St Michel entering our premises at the beginning of December 2020 launched a ferry repair season in Remontowa Shiprepair Yard. Mont St Michel entering our premises at we have hosted this ferry for the first time the beginning of December 2020 launched in 2008, she has been drydocked at our a ferry repair season in Remontowa yard several more times after that, most Shiprepair Yard. recently in 2018. Brittany Ferries has been working with The main purpose of the latest 2020 vis- our shipyard for more than a dozen years, it was to retrofit the ferry with an Alfa La- and its car-passenger ferries regularly call val’s BWT system, although the scope of here. One of them is Mont St Michel. Since the other work was also impressive. customermagazine 3 retrofits Four main engines underwent repairs When the ferry was drydocked, the hull and one auxiliary engine was subject to maintenance was carried out, as well as a major overhaul. The shipyard also car- the funnels and car decks. A great amount ried out a number of other overhauls, in- of the ballast, fuel and oil tanks were also cluding: the port and starboard reduction cleaned. A number of technical rooms gears, both stabilisers, the bow thrust- were also subject to maintenance. er and the propeller hubs, which togeth- All the work carried out at Remontowa er with the blades were dismantled for will ensure that the Mont St Michel ferry that purpose. The shaft line seals were re- not only complies with the BWM Conven- placed. tion, but also continues to operate safely Steel replacements, including piping, and sail efficiently. were carried out in various areas of the ship and new cables were laid in several electrical installations. Boilers and pumps of various types were overhauled, as well as hydraulic ramp cylinders and mooring winches. The ropes on the lifeboat davits were replaced, and the davits themselves underwent preservation. ∙ Although the main purpose was installation of a BWT system, the scope of other works carried out on the ferry was also impressive. Photo: Marcin Koszałka 4 ISSUE 4(35) 2020 remontowa ship repair news The Maj Richard Winters general cargo ship during her second visit at Remontowa in August 2020. Photo: Marcin Koszałka The ship owned by Sealift Inc. from New York for the first time at our premises A tribute to the American hero US ships are rarely spotted in shiprepair yards at the Baltic Sea. Nevertheless, in 2020 Remontowa Shiprepair Yard acquired for maintenance and upgrade over 100-metre long general cargo ship Maj Richard Winters, owned by the Shipowner Sealift Inc. from New York. The vessel operates a regular shuttle line from Gdansk to Canada. Until November 2019 the ship had been In May 2020, the Maj Richard Winters sailing under the name SCM Elpida and arrived at Remontowa for the first time. belonged to the German shipowner Krey The scope of the repair did not include the Schiffahrts GmbH & Co. KG. Interestingly, ship’s drydocking and primarily focused on the general cargo ship was built in 2000 light steel replacements on the main deck. to the order of this Shipowner in Stocznia Renewals includes works on anchor pock- Gdynia (the Gdynia Shipyard - now non- et, hatch cover hydraulics and pipelines in existent). the engine room. Additionally, a survey was customermagazine 5 retrofits carried out to determine the possibility of of the hull was also done and a brand new future BWT system installation. coating system has been applied. Sealift Inc. decided to return to our Aside jobs which were carried out, in the premises and entrust Remontowa to ret- meantime the ship was equipped with a rofit the Maj Richard Winters with the modern fire protection system, that utiliz- BWT system, which was one of the main es a high-pressure water fog to extinguish task of the ship’s re-visit in July 2020. the fire - the so-called hi-fog. Four alter- The mentioned installed BWT system nators and turbocharger have been over- was Optimarin delivery. In addition, the hauled in the engine room, a hydraulically Owner decided to renew top of cargo controlled deck equipment, the shaft line, holds, including replacement of approx- bow thruster and steering gear have been imately 42 tonnes of steel. In terms of overhauled during the ship’s drydock. steel works, also the 80T cargo crane was It’s worth emphasizing, that the Maj renovated. Due to the device construc- Richard Winters general cargo ship com- tion, this was more technologically chal- memorates the American war hero. As the lenging task. Shipowner points out, the ship was named The last major topic was treatment of after the commander of Company E with the hull, accomodation and equipment the consent of the family of Major Win- surface. Sandblasting of the two cargo ters, who died in 2011. cranes, the superstructure and the ice belt ∙ Who is Major Richard Winters? Born 21st of January 1918, died 2nd of In November 2019 the front page January 2011, he was a US Army officer of the „American Maritime Officer” and a war veteran.