MARITIME COMMUNITY

Our voyage continues and today we are going to look at marine repair companies or ship repair companies as we are calling them here. What is the function of a ship repair company? To cover the function of the ship repair company it is important to understand what type of work will be required.. A ship repair company will do a repair job on the spot and also most of them have capability of doing shop repair jobs. If it is a crack in the ship hull, it goes without saying that this cannot be a shop job. It will be a job that has to be done while the ship is in port. Also for this type of job, classification society will be involved. By that we mean companies like Lloyds of London or Germanishe Lloyds or Det Norske Veritas (DNV) etc. These are the people that will approve the quality of the job and put their stamp of approval. For a job that requires the vessel to be dry-docked a whole lot of other things are involved and usually those jobs are done while the ship is in dry dock for re-classing. Sometime that might not be possible, if it is urgent a close by facility with capacity to dry dock the vessel will have to be found and the job done by qualified people in that area of expertise.

Electrical work like rewinding of a electric motor can be done ashore and does usually require a shop facility that can handle this kind of work. Most ships have electricians on staff that can handle most of the regular general electrical requirements. However it can be situations that are just to demanding for onboard repair to be done.

In port of Montreal there are many companies capable of doing ship repair work. There are also companies that are subcontractors working under a ship repair company. This kind of company is in most cases a highly specialized company within a certain area. Many times, a job requires the service person to go with the ship while continuing to do the job. In the area of Montreal this is very common, as the vessels will in many cases only be transiting to or from the Great Lakes.

So here we have covered some of the work that a ship repair company is doing. The main thing though is that most of them a re very skilled at their job and are doing great jobs.

How do you find that right ship repair company for the job at hand….