Offshore staff
DUBAI, UAE – ABS and P&O Maritime Logistics (POML) will collaborate on a condition-based class (CBC) pilot project for the platform supply vessel (PSV) DMS Courageous.
The vessel will become the first to use ABS Nautical Systems as its computerized maintenance management system to transmit data on planned maintenance and condition-based maintenance to ABS for potentially crediting class survey requirements.
The project should lead to less intrusive surveys of hull and machinery systems by providing an alternative means of verification of compliance with specific survey needs.
Under the program’s three phases, the focus will initially be on improving alternative means of compliance verification, subsequently expanding activities to apply remote survey techniques, and ultimately using predictive capabilities to transform the class process and create efficiencies in onboard surveys, ABS said.
The technology should help POML to further streamline its organization to reduce opex and improve its processes through adopting new technologies.
 Recently, Caspian Voyager, POML’s largest modern PSV operating in the Caspian Sea, embarked on an ABS extended dry-docking scheme, which is intended to start the CBC process.
The company is looking to enroll its entire fleet into the ABS CBC program within the next five years.
02/04/2020
