WORD ON THE SEA
SBI’s Tom Scott
Get ready for refit Now – I have seen a few refit projects in my In my role as Editor for ShipBuilding Industry here time but, in terms of scope of work, this one tops at Yellow & Finch Publishers, I often get invited to vessel christenings and launches. Impressive to watch them all. I toured the vessel in awe. The deck, the but the day-to-day activity of a yard is hidden behind a piping, the electrics, the hole in the hull for the new engines. I could go on. I am currently working show of so many balloons. on a comprehensive article – highlighting Damen’s Visiting a ‘work-in-progress’, be it a new build role in the refit sector and the or a refit, is another matter. dedication and passion behind Things are happening, cranes their project management team. are moving and the workers Read the full story in the next are working. All in all, it’s a issue of ShipBuilding Industry – very dynamic and educational out at the end of May. experience. I also added a couple of So, after hearing that I have seen a few refit great new words to my Dutch Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen vocabulary. The first is ‘wirwar’ was busy with a major refit of projects in my time, – used to describe the tangle of a well known well intervention but this one tops them all. electrical cables that I saw the vessel, I managed to get Alewijnse team busy with in the myself invited to meet the switchboard room. The second project managers and have a word? ‘Snert’ – meaning a thick, richly filled pea soup look at the on-going work they were performing. that awaited me in the canteen. A tasty way to end I was met by Edwin Ruppert – Damen’s Area the morning – and not a balloon in sight. Manager involved with this particular contract. After getting more details from him and Project Managers Ron Brusket and Wim van de Velde, I watched a short safety film before going on board. However, it’s not just Damen who are busy at the yard. Numerous subcontracting companies are there carrying out a significant part of the work. PBC, ZMC, Den Breejen, Alewijnse and Hertel are just some of Tom Scott the companies whose presence is so strong that they tom@ynfpublishers.com have permanent offices at the yard.
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