Asset Management

Albion Marine Solutions Ltd. is committed to providing robust, cost-effective technical services to various industry clients, including ship owners and operators, charterers, underwriters, protection, indemnity mutual insurance associations (P&I clubs), law firms, and flag states. Our client assistance extends beyond initiatives to improve operational integrity. We support our clients with a comprehensive approach throughout an asset’s lifecycle. With strong global expertise and experience, we are increasingly involved in decommissioning aging assets. We likewise provide offshore operators with end-to-end asset management solutions. Our service is based on our technical capabilities in establishing asset integrity management and risk modeling throughout a project’s lifecycle.

 

Commissioning

During the construction phase of a project, it is essential to maintain control over the quality of the materials and services being procured. Equally crucial is ensuring that site conditions do not pose any kind of risk or delay to the start of construction. During any project, it is likewise critical to monitor actual progress against expected progress so that any potential issues are promptly identified and corrected. Albion Marine Solutions Ltd. offers highly skilled engineers with vast experience to assist with the commissioning of various systems.

Commissioning on site is nearly always done in the presence of the client and, if required, an official representative of a classification society. An essential aspect of the commissioning is the testing of capacity and functionality. Our qualified engineers conduct installations and commissioning worldwide and provide effective, feasible and comprehensive solutions to the challenges arising from any project.

 

 

Inspections and Surveys

Albion Marine Solutions Ltd. provides expert inspection and survey services to various shipping companies worldwide. A highly trained staff of professional marine engineers, captains, surveyors, and technicians is prepared to assist with:

 

  • Pre-purchase and sale inspections 
  • Condition surveys
  • Digital/3D surveys
  • Insurance surveys,
  • Damage and repair surveys
  • Expert witness documentation/testimony
  • Lightship surveys and inclining experiments
  • Vessel loading and lashing surveys
  • Inspection and site supervision
  • Construction inspections
  • Engine and machinery inspections
  • Tonnage measurements calculations and consultations
  • Deadweight audits

 

  • Navigational audits
  • MARPOL audits
  • Safety management system audits
  • Cargo operation audits
  • Bridge resource management audits
  • Engine room resource management audits
  • Mooring operation audits
  • Hazardous materials inventories
  • Cargo tank inspections
  • Cargo holds inspections
  • Close up and drone inspections
  • Measuring equipment validation verification

 

   

Superintendency/Site Supervision

Experienced site supervision capability: Albion Marine Solutions has been involved in site supervision for: Construction repairs, conversions, and retrofits of various vessels, including FPSOs, FSRUs, bulkers, tankers, barges, and boats. Albion Marine has completed several supervision projects worldwide.

We have established a project team of maritime experts with extensive backgrounds in marine engineering, naval architecture, vessel surveys, and project management. Our superintendents are specialized in newbuilding supervision and have extensive experience in design/construction management, engineering design assistance, construction supervision: Outfitting, hull, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation, piping, coating, LNG, and offshore systems and are committed to providing the best newbuilding supervision service to the utmost.   

 

 

Purchase and Sales Inspections

As a guaranteed independent expert, Albion’s team of surveyors can safeguard a client’s interests by conducting on-site purchase and sale vessel inspections. We help our clients to identify actual or potential safety and operational issues with a detailed report on a vessel’s condition. The vessel is thoroughly inspected using Engineering Model Configuration Inspection (EMCI) standards.              

 

 

 

 

 

Riding Squads in Voyage Repairs 

Albion Marine Solutions Ltd. carries out voyage repairs and sea-going maintenance, providing riding repair teams all over the world. Our team is composed by trained and certified fitters, welders, GRE fitters, electricians, skilled and trained Fitters for Main and Auxiliary engine major overhauls and technicians to ensure safe and efficient repairs and retrofits on board of the ships at sea or in ports. We carry out full range of mechanical, piping and steel work at anchorage or at berth.

 

Albion Marine has capability and expertise to take up voyage repairs onboard all types of the vessels. The voyage repairs are carried out onboard the vessels without hampering the routine operation of the vessels and thus no commercial loss for the clients. Albion can take up voyage repairs or work in the shipyard for new build and during routine dry-dock repairs with the Riding Squads.

 

Riding Squads can perform:

• Repairs and/or renewal of steel and/or GRE pipes, 

• Fabrication jobs involving installation of ladder, stairs, access platforms, installation of lifting I-beam,

• Retrofitting of any equipment/s on deck, engine room and accommodation 

• Major overhaul of main engine and auxiliary engines

• Repairs of auxiliary machinery – viz. winches, windlass, deck cranes, various types of pumps, air compressors etc.

 

Tender Support

The tender phase of your project is a time consuming and resource intensive task. Albion Marine Solutions tender support ensures an accurate tender phase with expert tender documentation preparation, analysis, and negotiation. We work with our clients to coordinate the tender process and meet deadlines

Our team of professionals helps ensure an accurate tender procedure to prepare and negotiate all project bids.

Albion Marine can either help create the content for the entire document, including the commercial elements, or work with content you provide, making sure that it is complete and meeting the tender guidelines.

Albion Marine Solutions can help you with:

• Define a strategic plan and choose the right bidders 

• Ensure all goods and services meet the quality assessment and are in full regulatory compliance 

• Ensure successful negotiations

 Our tender support service includes: Document review, Preparation of documentation, Bid evaluation and negotiation, Project planning, Resource planning and Tender procedures

To discuss how we can offer you extensive support to ensure a successful tender phase, contact us today. 

 

 

Prefabrication

We specialize in the prefabrication of piping and steel work for the installation of equipment in order to reduce a refit time, while at sea, alongside or in dock. Complete work packages, including cabling, fittings, prefabricated piping, foundations, equipment, and associated hardware, are assembled, and shipped worldwide.              

 

 

 

 

Maintenance Optimization

 Our maintenance planning specialists have extensive background in implementing and improving the Planned Maintenance Programs in order to prevent breakdowns and reduce OPEX.

 

      

 

 

 

Drone Services 

Albion Marine’s R&D team has come up with a unique way to carry out certain survey and/or inspection requirements using a purpose-built drone base. This drone utilization is a highly sophisticated, safe, efficient, and cost-effective approach.

The many advantages of using a drone include:

• Safety: Inspectors remain a safe distance while getting a close-up camera view.

• Prevention: The relative low cost of drone inspections is prompting many companies to use them to do inspections more often to detect potential issues earlier and avoid expensive repairs.

•  Data: The archivable data obtained by a drone provides a meticulous record of a major asset’s condition over time.

• Recompense: Using a drone to assess the condition of a damaged or dysfunctional asset can speed up the payment of a liability insurance claim and reduce any related costly downtime.

   

Condition Assessment Survey

• A precise, reliable, intuitive drone inspection of interior spaces

• Real-time HD feed to the surveyor or the ship owner

• A spherical carbon-fiber cage that protects the drone propellers to facilitate confined-area use

• Repeatedly tested reliability in terms of capability to pass through vessel portholes

• Photogrammetry software for a 3D imaging option

• Combined use with LIDAR V1 & HF1 technology for on-board processing and real-time analysis

• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) that facilitates accurate 3D mapping in GPS-denied environments, such as within interior spaces, underground, or near large structures.

• 3D modelling of the inspected space

• Locating, quantifying, and measuring faults precisely

• A simpler way to spot faults than numerous time-consuming photo comparisons with an internal structures map

• Time and project cost savings

          • Easier volume and dimensional calculations

 

 

Ultrasonic Thickness Measurement (UTM Gauging)

• Spot thickness readings

• A-scan readings at a target position with 5-centimetre precision in terms of diameter

• Real-time waveform input to a landside inspector

• UT readings with 0.01-mm resolution and a measurable thickness range of 1 mm to 635 mm

• Capability to measure along curved surfaces

• Readings without the need of a GPS signal

Albion Marine Solutions can provide UTM gauging for ships, storage tanks, cranes, offshore platforms, wind turbines, and bridges. 

 

Digital Twins

Albion Marine Solutions aims to provide new industry tools that will enable vessel brokers, project managers, and inspectors to remotely access vessels, saving them time and money while lowering the risk of unforeseen conditions and change orders. 

 A digital twin is a digital representation of a physical entity or framework. Data can be analyzed, and systems can be monitored by combining the virtual and physical worlds in simulations to avoid unintended consequences, reduce downtime, discover new opportunities, and even plan for the future. The technology underlying digital twins has evolved to include large objects such as machinery, buildings, and even ships. 

Benefits of the Digital Twin in Shipping 

1. Fleet Optimization Through Virtual Ship Control System Transition

2. Improving Port and Terminal Operations

3. Situational awareness in terms of operational parameters

4. Supply Chain Optimization from Start to Finish

5. Increased Security Ensures Safety

 

 

Scrubbers

Exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS), also known as scrubbers, are used to stop particulate matter and harmful air emissions, such as sulphur oxides (SOx) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), from being released from a marine engine’s combustion exhaust gases. EGCS provide a reliable, efficient, economical alternative to using distillate or low sulphur content fuels.

Albion Marine Solutions offers the expert services of its professional team to plan, execute and support vessel retrofits for the installation of scrubbers, selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems, and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) systems. Our team does so with a parallel management of the operational and technological risks by sourcing the most cost-effective, reliable solutions from both a capital expenditure (CAPEX) and future operating expenditure (OPEX) perspective.

Albion Marine Solutions has designed and developed a number of EGCS conversions for domestic and international trade vessels.

With the support of the Government of Canada, Albion Marine Solutions has developed its own proprietary design of the Advanced Air Emission Abatement Technology Floating Unit. The unit is designed to capture SOx, NOx, carbon, greenhouse gases and particulate matter released from the exhaust flue of oceangoing vessels calling at Canada’s major ports.

 

Albion Marine Solutions Ltd. is an Associate Member of the Exhaust Gas Cleaning System Association. Our team has direct experience in ship operations and conversions and makes it a priority to stay thoroughly familiar with all commercially available emission abatement systems and their related technologies..

Our services include:

·         Technical and commercial feasibility studies

·         3D scanning and modeling

·         Basic and detailed designs

·         Procurement and prefabrication services

·         Retrofits by riding crew and at anchorage

·         Yard supervision

·         Troubleshooting and repairs

·         Instrument calibration and verification services

·         Sensor exchange programs

·         Crew training

3D Scan

We specialize in 3D laser scanning for the maritime and industrial engineering and design applications. Every scan measure millions of discrete points and each point allocated its precise position in space. 

Our scans capture quality accurate measurements on board. Our specialized engineers capture all the areas of the Engine Room of the vessel. While not disrupting normal vessel operations, we scan every possible area where the Scrubber System may be installed.

We then deliver accurate as built 3D models. Our Naval Architectures will conduct a feasibility study for the new installation with a detailed model avoiding conflicts with existing piping or other equipment.

 

Riding Squads

Albion Marine Solutions Ltd. provides trained and certified electricians, mechanics, pipe fitters and technicians to ensure safe and efficient repairs and retrofits on board of the ships at sea or in ports. The voyage repairs are carried out onboard the vessels without hampering the routine operation of the vessels and thus no commercial loss for the clients.  Riding Squads are composed based on the nature of the job scope.  Albion can take up voyage repairs or work in the shipyard for new build and during routine dry-dock repairs with the Riding Squads.  Riding Squad can perform:

• repairs and/or renewal of steel and/or GRE pipes, 

• fabrication jobs involving installation of ladder, stairs, access platforms, installation of lifting I-beam,

• retrofitting of any equipment/s on deck, engine room and accommodation

 • major overhaul of main engine and auxiliary engines

• repairs of auxiliary machinery – viz. winches, windlass, deck cranes, various types of pumps, air compressors etc. 

Albion also has a dedicated and trained team to carry out routine health checks and repairs of Scrubbers and BWTS (Ballast water Treatment System).

Training

Albion Marine Solutions provides training in scrubber maintenance and chemical handling. Our training covers system design and function, governing documents, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting. Training can take place at customer sites. Well-trained crew who understand the system and regulatory issues will increase the lifetime of the machinery, reduce opex, and, crucially, lower the risk of non-compliance. Training can also prevent scrubber downtime should the crew misread or misunderstand the regulations.

Support 

Albion Marine Solutions offers a full range of class, certification and verification services to support the proper installation and commissioning of a scrubber. Our team of experts can help you at any stage of scrubber installation and operation. Albion Marine can also provide a lifecycle cost analysis which compares the economic impacts of the various fuel and associated equipment options to better inform our clients about the selection process. Albion Marine Solutions can help you make the right decisions for your fleet. 

After Sales Services 

Complete Health Check (Semi-annual) 

• Detailed Checklist- based inspection by maker trained personnel. 

• No infringement with any maker. Does not involve proprietary software checks. 

• Covers structural, mechanical and electrical maintenance scope 

• IAS and system integration checks, including electrical cabling issues. 

• Comprehensive health check report provided at the end with issues, recommendations and photos. 

Sensor Exchange Calibration Program 

• Calibration of all sensors as per maker’s manual. 

• Maker- certified calibrated sensor is installed while old sensor is sent to the sensor maker’s calibration facility and stored with AMS 

• Involves all commonly used sensors such as pH sensor, pAH probe and turbidimeter. 

• Sensor exchange/ replacement/ calibration – completely managed by a dedicated Albion Marine Project Manager

LNG, CNG and LPG Solutions

Albion Marine Solutions Ltd. has extensive new build, conversion, and operational experience in the use of natural gas as a fuel and its carriage as cargo. Our team has the required expertise to determine the solutions in a variety of natural gas uses: Liquid natural gas (LNG), compressed natural gas (CNG), or liquid petroleum gas (LPG) as cargo, LNG as a fuel, MEGI (main engine gas injection) conversions, CNG as a fuel, LNG bunkering, LNG ship to ship operations, LNG terminals, Offshore storage, Onshore and small engine application.

 

Our technical and cryogenic experts work closely with clients to select the most viable layout options. When developing a project-specific LNG/CNG solution, a number of considerations must be kept in mind, such as the boiler or engine technology, auxiliary equipment, naval architecture, marine engineering, yard management, bunkering logistics and training. Our team of qualified engineers has hands-on experience working on LNG vessels. Voyage repairs, maintenance work and periodical inspections can be carried out during a ship’s trade route. Our team can then complete any necessary repairs by working aboard the LNG carriers during scheduled dry docking. 

 

 

Interest in conversions to LNG as a marine fuel is being driven by stringent air emission reduction regulations and the focus by shipowners on reducing bunker OPEX. Albion Marine Solutions Ltd. provides consulting as well as start-to-finish engineering and project management services for the conversion of power, propulsion, and steam plants to LNG. The company’s LNG/CNG/LPG services focus on dependable inspection and consulting, as well as the repair and overhaul of all ship machinery, including the main and auxiliary engines, cargo access equipment, steam plants and boilers, automation, electrical repairs, piping, and steel work. 

 

 

FGSS PACKAGE INCLUDES

• Complete design/ engineering, including Class Approval

• Procurement management & equipment delivery

• Type C deck mounted LNG fuel tanks

• LNG bunkering modules

• Cargo handling system 

• Integrated LNG fuel supply system

• Provisions for crew training

• Support during commissioning

• Life cycle maintenance package 

Our procurement team can provide a complete turnkey LNG fuel supply system, including the detailed design, hardware, and installation. The system’s modular design can be adapted to various types of ships. As ship management professionals, we know how to work with multiple stakeholders to deliver a project on time and within budget.

 

AVAILABLE FGSS SYSTEMS

Albion Marine Solutions is the only North American company collaborating with SunRui Marine Environment Engineering Co., Ltd, LGM Engineering, and Shanghai Bluesoul, three of the largest and most well-known suppliers of LNG fuel gas supply systems. The Albion Marine Solutions team can provide high-pressure and low-pressure Fuel Gas Supply Systems to clients worldwide. Our team begins by comparing available technologies and their cost drivers to recommend the best solution to meet the client's needs. Then, considering the operational requirements and vessel specifics, we recommend the best system. Following that, technical, functional, and installation requirements. We deliver highly reliable products and services based on our vast experience with Fuel Gas Supply Systems. 

  

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) - Drone Services

Drone Services

Albion Marine’s R&D team has come up with a unique way to carry out certain survey and/or inspection requirements using a purpose-built drone base. This drone utilization is a highly sophisticated, safe, efficient and cost-effective approach.

The many advantages of using a drone include:

• Safety: Inspectors remain a safe distance while getting a close-up camera view.

• Prevention: The relative low cost of drone inspections is prompting many companies to use them to do inspections more often to detect potential issues earlier and avoid expensive repairs.

•  Data: The archivable data obtained by a drone provides a meticulous record of a major asset’s condition over time.

• Recompense: Using a drone to assess the condition of a damaged or dysfunctional asset can speed up the payment of a liability insurance claim and reduce any related costly downtime.

Condition Assessment Survey 

• A precise, reliable, intuitive drone inspection of interior spaces

• Real-time HD feed to the surveyor or the ship owner

• A spherical carbon-fibre cage that protects the drone propellers to facilitate confined-area use

• Repeatedly tested reliability in terms of capability to pass through vessel portholes

• Photogrammetry software for a 3D imaging option

• Combined use with LIDAR V1 & HF1 technology for on-board processing and real-time analysis

• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) that facilitates accurate 3D mapping in GPS-denied environments, such as within interior spaces, underground, or near large structures.

• 3D modelling of the inspected space

• Locating, quantifying and measuring faults precisely

• A simpler way to spot faults than numerous time-consuming photo comparisons with an internal structures map

• Time and project cost savings

          • Easier volume and dimensional calculations

          • For piping surveys/inspections, the elevation of the interior pipe, its shape, the pipe condition, and the length/size of any defect 

Ultrasonic Thickness Measurement (UTM Gauging) 

• Spot thickness readings

• A-scan readings at a target position with 5-centimetre precision in terms of diameter

• Real-time waveform input to a landside inspector

• UT readings with 0.01-mm resolution and a measurable thickness range of 1 mm to 635 mm

• Capability to measure along curved surfaces

• Readings without the need of a GPS signal

Albion Marine Solutions can provide UTM gauging for ships, storage tanks, cranes, offshore platforms, wind turbines, and bridges. 

 

 

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Legislative Compliance Solutions

 

Albion Marine Solutions assists ship owners and operators in complying with imminent marine environmental regulations. Insufficiently robust solutions can have detrimental compliance and commercial impacts on vessel operations. Our professionals assist owners/operators in the selection and implementation of reliable, regulation compliant solutions at the optimum total cost of ownership price points.

We offer consultancy, market research, feasibility studies, equipment selection, engineering packages, project management and yard supervision/riding squads with our repair/retrofit services.

Sewage Treatment Plant Retrofits

Albion Marine Solution Ltd.’s retrofit designs of sewage treatment plant implementations comply with the IMO MEPC.227 (64), 2012 Guidelines on Implementation of Effluent Standards and Performance Tests for Sewage Treatment Plants. The retrofitted plants meet the marine sewage discharge standard to protect the ocean. The regulations specify that vessels with a toilet aboard must have a holding tank or approved marine sanitation device. The discharge of untreated sewage into coastal or inland waterways is now prohibited within 12 miles (19.3 kilometres) of land. Treated sewage can soon only be discharged into waters subject to specified limits of faecal coliforms per 100 millilitres (3.38 fluid ounces) of water. Some vessels have utilized Afterpeak or other ballast tanks as a holding tank in locations where discharge is prohibited.

 

 

Conversion for operation on Low Sulphur Distillate Fuels 

The IMO has decreased the sulphur limit from a maximum 1.0% to a maximum of 0.1% of fuel content. To comply with the regulation, operators must use either a fuel with less than 0.1% sulphur or install an exhaust gas cleaning system (i.e., scrubber). Using a low sulfur distillate fuel is a good option for vessels occasionally trading within designated Emission Control Areas (ECAs). Our specialists assist in the selection and implementation of the most reliable and cost-effective solution tailored to the machinery, boilers, engines, and fuel systems aboard a vessel. 

 

Bilge water and sludge handling optimization

The shipping industry must comply with IMO Resolution MEPC.107(49) which requires ships to have pollution prevention equipment for their machinery space bilges. Regulations mandate that all vessels must operate an approved onboard type of bilge water treatment system. This system must have the capability to treat oily wastewater to comply with the regulations.

Oily water separators (OWS) often fail to perform as designed, which frustrates a ship’s crew, and cuts into the ship owner or operator’s profits because of the higher cost of disposing of all of the unseparated bilge water and sludge at landside facilities. Albion Marine Solutions can assist in making the OWS dependably work by reviewing a vessel’s existing layout and operational procedures and then recommending the best course of action. Our team can take you through the entire process: feasibility study, new/revamped design, Class approvals and implementation. This investment will save time, frustration, and money overall.

 

Albion Marine Solutions Ltd.

Suite 304 - 800 Carleton Court 

Delta, BC V3M 6Y6

Canada

Email : info@albionmarine.com

Tel     : +1 604 529 8488

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