Questions shipowners ask us.

Six disciplines: steel renewal and structural repair, welding, inspection and NDT, ultrasonic thickness measurement (UTM), propulsion and machinery, and piping. We work in the dock, alongside or during the voyage. See all services.

No. Internal structure, deck fittings, hatch covers and piping can often be renewed alongside or by a riding squad, provided the spaces can be made gas-free and the work fits the permits. Shell plating below the waterline usually waits for the dock. The repair window planner shows whether a job fits a port stay.

Visual inspection, magnetic particle testing (MT), dye penetrant testing (PT) and ultrasonic testing (UT), including ultrasonic thickness measurement. The method follows the job and the class or owner's requirements. See inspection and NDT.

Yes. The crack is located by NDT, removed down to sound metal, welded with a qualified procedure and tested again; where the member is wasted beyond the class limits it is renewed instead. Our report on bracket-toe cracks explains the method.

Yes. Spools are measured, prefabricated where possible while the team mobilises, then fitted, welded and pressure-tested on board. See piping.

Yes — propellers, shafts, rudders and auxiliary machinery, in the dock or afloat where access allows. See propulsion and machinery.

All of them. Our base is in Santos – SP, and teams mobilise to every port and terminal in Brazil, from the Amazon river ports to Rio Grande. The coverage chart shows 37 of them with their distance from the base.

In Santos the team works from the base. Elsewhere it depends on the distance — by road up to roughly 700 km, by air beyond — plus port access. Ordering before berthing lets the team arrive with the ship. The planner estimates it for your port.

Often, yes. The work is coordinated with the master, the terminal and the cargo operation: spaces are gas-freed, a hot-work permit is issued for each job and each day, and a fire watch stays in place. Our report on repairs alongside covers the details.

A team that sails with the ship to carry on the work between ports, with the materials loaded on board and a plan agreed before departure. It suits work that is bigger than one port stay.

It is split: part in this call, the rest at the next port — where a team can meet the ship — or with a riding squad. The Afloat Repair Window Planner builds the schedule and suggests the split.

The vessel (name and IMO number), the port and ETA, the time alongside, a description of the job with photos, drawings or class reports where available, and the deadline. Send it through the request form.

Each job is quoted on its scope, in a written proposal that shows mobilisation, materials and third-party services. Where the extent is still unknown — a first opening or an inspection — the proposal says how findings will be handled.

No. Work is carried out under a written proposal accepted by both parties. See the terms of use.

Materials can be supplied with the job — plate of the required grade with mill certificates, pipes and fittings — or provided by the owner. The proposal states which.

Yes. Repairs on class items are planned with the surveyor: the scope agreed beforehand, attendance at the key stages — fit-up, NDT, tests — and the records needed to close the item.

Class rules and the owner's specification first; IACS Recommendation 47 for repair quality; welding to qualified procedures by qualified welders; NDT to the applicable standards. Each service page lists its references.

For each point: the member and its location, the original thickness, the reading and the diminution in per cent against the allowable limit. Members beyond the limit are highlighted, and the areas and weights to renew are totalled. See ultrasonic thickness measurement.

The ship issues the permit on board after the gas test, with the agreement of the terminal and under the port's rules. Enclosed spaces and tanks need a gas-free certificate first.

From under an hour on an open deck to several hours in a ballast tank, and longer next to fuel tanks, where a marine chemist's certificate may be required. The planner uses these figures as planning assumptions.