Services

Fleet Operation Support

Crew training in the operation and maintenance of the shipboard equipment and systems is compulsory under the Standards of Training, Certification and Watch (STCW-95), and other international conventions and national legislations.

Albion Marine Solutions develops vessel- and equipment-specific crew training manuals and computer-based training programs. Training programs are customized to a client’s specific requirements. Our expert team has completed numerous training sessions aboard vessels.

Our team can also prepare a maintenance program for newly installed equipment. The maintenance program includes OPEX cost projections, a maintenance schedule checklist, a detailed list of the installed components along with the critical and other spare parts. The maintenance program is designed to satisfy Class requirements and is customized for the client’s maintenance policies and standards.

Our team has extensive experience with various models of Planned Maintenance Systems (PMS), including DNV GL, NS5, AMOS, RAST, Neptune, InfoShip, TM Master, GL Shipmanager, Maximo, BASSnet, Star IPS and TeoMaki. We can develop and manage a complete Planned Maintenance System and Dry Dock Management System.

Albion Marine Solutions Ltd. provides flexible, cost-effective maritime vessel operations with a qualified marine workforce that can work in all conditions. Our team provides comprehensive, expert and responsive in-service support for maritime assets, delivering efficient vessel operations with optimal performance.

We deliver testing, analysis, support and emergency services to clients to maintain operational efficiency and performance.

The main aim of any maintenance plan on a ship is to get the maintenance and repair work done in the least possible time at minimum costs. Our team prepares a maintenance plan to ensure that the machinery aboard a vessel maintains required standards of operation and safety.

A maintenance plan constitutes an imperative element of a ship’s routine operations and is an integral component of the vessel’s maintenance mechanisms. In establishing a maintenance plan, several aspects should be taken into consideration, starting with the International Safety Management (ISM) code to the specifications and guidelines issued by the manufacturers of the machinery.

In developing each vessel’s maintenance plan, Albion Marine Solutions takes into consideration:

• International Safety Management (ISM) code requirements

• Manufacturer-issued specifications and guidelines

• Equipment history (including previous defects, failures, damage, and remedial actions)

• A vessel’s age

• Critical equipment and systems

• Maintenance intervals

• Possible consequences of failed or failing equipment on the vessel’s safe operation

A systematic procedure is established that forms an integral part of a ship’s planned maintenance system. For inspection purpose, checklists are often used to ensure that the inspection, test, and maintenance are each performed according to the ISM code requirements, manufacturer guidelines and the client’s specifications.

Albion Marine has a worldwide network offering a wide range of engineering and technical services to ensure prompt response in various locations.

Alternate Fuel / LNG / SNG / Methanol Ammonia Solution

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.

OUR PARTNERS

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.

Air Emissions Reduction Solutions

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

Associate Member of Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems Association

3D Laser Scanning, 3D Modeling and Engineering Services

3D Laser Scanning & 3D Modeling :: 3D Laser Scanning, 3D Modelling, Plot Plans, Vessel Hull Lines, Engineering Drafting, Vessel Retrofits Detailed Design, Offshore Conversion, Damage Assessment and Survey

3D Laser Scanning and Engineering Services

Albion Marine Solutions Ltd. provides 3D laser scanning, 3D modeling, design and drafting services with the related industrial engineering applications to the maritime, offshore, construction, and oil and gas sectors. Every scan precisely locates/positions millions of data points within a given space. The 3D point cloud that is established can be navigated, drafted, and modelled in commonly used computer assisted drafting (CAD) and other software applications. The numerous possible uses for the point cloud include site survey data, damage investigation reports, conversion/retrofit plans, reverse engineering steps, conceptual designs and detailed engineering.

These digital surveys capture and deliver the complex shapes and geometry of vessel hulls. The 3D laser scanning can be done to determine the definition of possible hull deflections, as well as to inspect every stage of a construction/assembling process to verify the robustness of any deviations from the original design.

Lasers scanners can survey complex surfaces that would otherwise be unapproachable, including damaged/destroyed areas for insurance claim and redesign purposes.

3D Laser Scanning

Our team consists of manufacturer-trained, experienced professionals specializing in 3D scanning with top-of-the-line scanners having sub-millimetre accuracy. A number of 3D scans are combined in a point cloud to represent the exact geometrical detail about surrounding objects. From a point cloud, the designers can develop a model of a structure and/or plant, its machinery, piping, and equipment for Concept Design – Basic, Detailed, and As-Built Engineering.

3D Modelling

Our designers use the latest CAD software to prepare 3D concept models and detailed fabrication drawings for ship conversions and plant upgrades, including: custom part and assembly modeling, prototype design, complex construction design, structural layouts, and machinery.

Plot Plans

The laser scans of the plant and/or structure, machinery, electrical cabling, and piping systems are extracted from the point cloud to create isometric drawings. Our designers use AutoCAD software to create these plot plan drawings.

Vessel Hull Lines

Our designers use the latest 3D CAD software to prepare 3D concept models and detailed fabrication drawings for ship conversions and plant upgrades, including custom part and assembly modeling, prototype design, complex construction design, structural layouts, and machinery. The unified and dense point cloud provides the proper initial spatial information for the extraction of any kind of deliverables from naval lines (e.g., waterlines, buttocks and sections) to a 3D reconstructed ship geometry (modeling) in any compatible CAD format.

Engineering Drafting

The 3D laser scan data is an essential tool in developing engineering design packages. Our designers combine the processed scan data, 3D models, existing arrangements, engineering design, and client requirements to create the required engineering deliverables: conversion specifications, plans, and detailed fabrication drawings. The scan data can be imported directly into Ship constructor, Plant 3D Toolset, Revit, AutoCAD, 3DS, Civil 3D, Navisworks, ArchiCAD, MicroStation, Rhinoceros 3D, SOLIDWORKS and other relevant software programs.

Vessel Retrofits Detailed Design

We use 3D modeling to develop an engineering design package and conversion specifications. Engineers prepare detailed machinery, steel work, pipe piece design and layout that includes:

- A materials checklist

- Complete documentation to satisfy Class specifications and applicable regulations.

- Yard specifications

Offshore Conversion

The 3D scanning and modeling are valuable tools in complex, multidisciplinary projects where precise cut out and fitment of new offshore equipment is a common scope of work. Albion Marine Solution’s team has extensive project experience in offshore conversions and new builds, including: FSO, FPSO, FSRU, shuttles, oil rigs and platforms.

Damage Assessment and Survey

Albion Marine uses 3D scanning and modeling for a damage survey of a vessel’s hull and machinery. The sophisticated 3D technology helps to capture accurate data, including changes in hull geometry and the disposition of damaged elements. In conjunction with a survey conducted by our experienced surveyors, 3D scanning and modeling provide concerned parties with the information required for investigations and efficient remedial action.

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