Expert ship surveyor Don Butler shares a lifetime's ship repair costing experience in this unique resource for accurate cost estimation and planning
- Includes hard to come by information on typical ship repair labor expectations for accurate man-hour forecasting and cost estimation
- Produced for marine engineers and marine industry professionals to aid with repair specification and negotiation, helping you to plan work and budgets more reliably
- Uses man-hours as opposed to particular rates or currencies, providing a long-term model for pricing regardless of location, rate fluctuation, or inflation
Bringing together otherwise scattered details on specific repair and dry-docking activities, this invaluable guide will save you time and improve the accuracy of your ship repair estimates. Don't plan or commission work without it!
Don Butler is a fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineers and a member of the Society of Consulting Marine Engineers and Ship Surveyors, UK.
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Table of Contents
- Dry-docking works: Berth preparation
- Shifting of blocks after docking vessel
- Docking and undocking
- Dock rent per day
- Dock services
- Hull preparation
- Hull painting
- Rudder works
- Propeller
- Tailshaft. Steel Works: Hull steel repairs. Pipe works: Pipe work renewals in schedule 40 steel
- Pipe work renewals in schedule 80 steel
- Pipe work renewals in copper
- Hot dip galvanising after manufacture. Mechanical works: Overhauling diesel engines
- Top overhaul
- Cylinder covers
- Cylinder liners
- Bearing survey
- Crankshaft deflections & crankcase doors
- Four stroke, Trunk type, Main engines
- Gear boxes of Medium speed engines
- Overhauling valves: line valves, pressure valves
- Main condenser
- Main steam Turbines
- Flexible coupling
- Auxiliary Steam Turbines
- Turbo Alternator
- Feed Pumps
- Oil Tanker Cargo Pump
- Air Compressors
- Air Receivers
- Pumps
- Boilers. Electrical Works: Insulation resistance tests
- Electric motors
- Electric generators
- Switchboard
- Running and installing electric cables
- Installing junction boxes
- Running and installing cable conduit. General works: Tank cleaning
- Removal of tank manhole cover for access and refitting with new cover joint
- pumping out of bilge water or slops into shore facility per tonne
- Hand cleaning of bilge areas or inside tanks per square metre
- Hand scraping of internal steel areas per square metre
- Tank testing by low pressure compressed air
- Tank testing by filling with sea water.
