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Management and tubular manipulation for specific and marine applications.”
and certain companies have a very strict privacy policy.”
“A development of this service has seen us include a number of commercial shipping companies in our expanding list of surveyed hose management customers, as well as a number of privately-owned super yachts.”
Navy “One of our top customers would be the Irish navy, which is based in Haulbowline,
Pirtek Cork is flexible with its THM customers Greg explains. “We have something like 50 vessels on some degree of Total Hose Management and we adjust the dataset to suit their needs. “Once the initial survey is processed, we could get four to five email orders a week. It’s a lot of work to do the survey but once you have done that and established the database, it becomes a seamless process. Customers contact you, place the order and you make up what they need. “We don’t control the preventative maintenance schedule. We advise but customers make their own decisions. We do have a shared database of exactly what is on board, however.” Shipping companies can be private in controlling their maintenance schedules. “You can advise customers to change components every five years and most
Cobh, near Cork. We have a very strong
‘Pollution is a huge consideration’
Commercial shipping Shipping companies may have a number of vessels in the same class and could have differing needs depending on the size
relationship, especially with the engineering and planning departments.
“Approximately 10 years ago they asked us
to start a Total Hose Management project. We won the contract to manage all eight vessels in their fleet and they now have their own in-house database supervised by us. Every hose is tagged and they can order a hose anywhere and at any time. Each piece of equipment on the ship is surveyed individually and the hoses listed. “They get two hardback copies, which are kept in the engineer’s room, and there’s one in the planning office. Each vessel also keeps an electronic copy on the ship’s computer.
and type of the vessel concerned.
Pirtek Cork works with shipping companies to provide the right Total Hose Management to suit each ship, be it a total hose register or just an essential spares register consisting of the hoses they need for the ship to work, mainly drive hoses for the CPPs (Controllable Pitch Propellers) needed for the ship to get from A to B. The ability to order and have a hose delivered anywhere in the world with just an email or phone call gives the engineer great peace of mind.
shipping companies will do, but at the end of the day the customer
controls their own service systems.
“It can depend on the engineers they have on board,” Greg says. “Some will want 50% spares of any piece of machinery on board. Others will just keep an essential hose kit. It varies according to their needs.” The shipping companies tend to look after the IT side themselves, Greg explains. “They want to keep control of that
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