Marine Propulsion & Auxiliary Machinery

Innovation in thruster repair and replacement

Taken from: Marine Propulsion & Auxiliary Machinery August/September 2012


The ability to carry out any ship repairs afloat is always going to be the most cost effective way forward for most repairs and usually the most preferable. Hydrex specialises in deploying teams to many unusual and sometimes remote locations to carry out all sorts of repairs. A team was dispatched to an offshore crane barge stationed at its service base in Gabon to replace one of the vessel’s swing-up azimuth thrusters. The operation had to be carried out in a very short time frame because....

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