Ship Repair Precautions

Ships often encounter repair problems, in the arrangement of ship repair should pay attention to several issues, the ship's repair content, the ship's repair time, the ship's repair time.
The following are the detailed precautions: Repair costs vary greatly depending on the repair content Reasonable arrangement of repairs and control of repair items appear to be important. In the past, the practice of some shipping companies in the ship repair and maintenance issues is to accumulate many repairs and leave them to be repaired together when the ship comes into the factory.
This not only prolongs the repair time, but also increases the repair cost.
Now the practice of many shipowners is to try to control the items that need to be repaired in the smaller scope. When the need for certain items of repair, and not simply make the ship into the shipyard repair, but first consider whether it is possible to use a variety of flexible, economic methods, such as temporary increase in crew with the ship for repair;
Temporarily hiring repair workers in the port; hiring experts to guide the ship and so on.
Although this also need to increase the cost of some repairs, but compared with the repair of the shipyard still has great savings, especially the use of these methods do not shorten the ship's operating time. The choice of ship repair yard should be determined by comparison This comparison should include the level of ship repair fees, good and bad quality of ship repair, the ship to the repair site away from the voyage and into the factory before and after the possible opportunity to get the cargo load and so on.
Some companies stipulate that the company's ships should return to their home bases for major repairs, which is not always favorable in practice. While returning a ship to its home base for repairs may reduce foreign exchange expenditures, it may also result in the loss of the ship's schedule. Generally speaking, unless there are obvious differences in the quality, time and cost of repair, it is more appropriate for the ship to choose the nearest place for repair. Repair time directly affects the ship's operating efficiency The length of the repair cycle directly affects the number of operating days of the ship, thus affecting the economic efficiency of the enterprise.
In order to shorten the repair cycle, the ship owner should submit the repair work order to the shipyard in advance to prepare materials and make ship repair plan. In order to avoid hasty start or due to poor planning and additional projects in the repair process, resulting in rework, repetition, thus prolonging the repair cycle, the ship may also invite the factory beforehand to send staff to follow the ship voyage, according to the ship's proposed repair project, the voyage to carry out on-site inspection, and then discuss the repair plan.
In addition, sometimes, for certain reasons, such as to avoid the shipyard's excessive task at certain times, or in order to meet the upcoming heavy transportation tasks, it is necessary to arrange in advance for part of the ship in and out of the repair.