Business Case:

The installation of a bulk carrier
of 159 000 DWT

Price: from 35.000 €
Time: 1h30 hour per tank (all components prepared)

Cargo and bunker tanks safety solutions

During her life cycle, a ship* will face up unforeseen situations triggering different consequences from time loss to ship loss.

The FOR and ORA^® Systems new design fill a, now recognized, technological weakness. The on-board equipment provides crew members, ship technical organization and crisis players with adapted solutions to face up incidents.

The FOR and ORA^® Systems new design secure the ship from its building to its scrapping:

* All ship types. New buildings or modernization of existing ships.

1 Anti Ship Immobilization

A small circuits and valves failure can interfere with normal operations or immobilize the ship. The FOR and ORA^® Systems bring to the crew concrete solutions and determined procedures to release the ship of the incident constraints and make her back quickly to normal operation.

Incidents coverage:

Off specification bunkering
Circuit failures (loading or discharging lines)
Valves failures
Inert gas system failure
Breached tank
After lay up tanks reconditioning

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Solutions: The FOR and ORA^® Systems increase the cargo and bunker tanks connectivity. Combined with dedicated procedures, these on-board equipments offer solutions to the ship operators to:

Gain:

Reduce the time of the ship immobilization
Secure and optimize tanks intervention
Stop incident escalation

Operational assistance:

Any tank incident can generate major operational and financial consequences.

Often main unforeseen incidents can be solved or controlled thanks to FOR and ORA® additional safety circuits allowing appropriate direct accesses to each tank.

Tank gas freeing operation:

Normal tank gas freeing procedures take a long time. Time can be saved by adding up FOR and ORA^® clear accesses to accelerate the normal gas freeing operation.

Closed-sampling :

The closed sampling can be spoiled by residues (corrosion or previous cargo traces) coming from contact between the sampler and the standard 2 inches sampling pipe. Thus commercial and operational consequences will impact both the shipowner and the charterer.
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Solution: By adapting a FOR and ORA^® connector per cargo with a sampler kit, closed sampling can be performed correctly through an 8 inches pipe instead a 2 inches standard pipe.
The risk of spoiling the test is limited thanks to:

No unexpected contact between the sampler and the 8 inches new sampling pipe
Multi level test available
Compliant with technical requirements of the ship tank (Inert gas respected)

Gain: By optimizing the closed sampling operations, an operational competitive advantage grants the shipowner and charterer.

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2 Anti-Pollution

In event of accident, The FOR and ORA^® Systems provide a control over pollutants contained into the tanks.

Grounding:

The FOR and ORA^® Systems allow fast cargo and bunker tanks lightering operation to save the ship or end the main crisis quickly.
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Solution: The FOR and ORA^® Systems ensure permanent, no energy needed, clearly identified, reachable and easy to operate, recovery circuits.

Gain: The dedicated lightering procedures being predefined, allow quick and efficient actions deployment to mitigate the technical, financial, media, human and environmental impact, increasing significantly the chances to save the ship.

Wreckage:

The FOR and ORA^® Systems end quickly the main crisis by recovering the pollutant trapped into the cargo and bunker tanks of the ship.
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Solution: The FOR and ORA^® Systems ensure permanent, no energy needed, clearly identified, reachable and easy to operate, recovery circuits.

Gain: The dedicated recovery procedures being predefined allow quick and efficient actions deployment to mitigate significantly the financial, media, human and environmental impact.

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3 Dismantling Facilities

The FOR and ORA^® Systems mitigate the technical, human, financial and environmental impact of the ship dismantling. Tanks scrapping stages, known as complex and costly are significantly simplified:

» Ship draft and trim correction:

Ships lay-up, waiting for dismantling, need sometime to navigate to reach the yard. Often draft and trim issues need to be solved to ensure a safe way. Ship accessible capacities have to be used to balance the ship. These operations are complex and costly.
The FOR and ORA^® Systems ensure clear tanks accesses to balance the ship by ballasting tanks.

» Tanks location:

Technical information (general arrangement, deck arrangement, diagrams…) are often missing or are not complete. Then it is complex to clearly identify the number and location of the tanks.
The FOR and ORA^® Systems are clearly identified on deck, determining the number and location of the tanks. Thus industrial procedures can be deployed for each tank, saving time.

» Tanks Gas freeing:

It is a required step to safely intervene into the tank. It is a crucial issue to avoid any accident and work in a safe condition.
The FOR and ORA^® Systems ensure clear tanks accesses to gas free the ship tanks by adapting tank ventilation fans.

» Tanks cleaning operation:

Noxious substances need to be addressed safely. Long and complex procedures with appropriate staff and material are required.
The FOR and ORA^® Systems provide the appropriate accesses to easily perform tank cleaning procedures from the deck reducing the labour cost and avoiding any human direct contact with noxious substances.

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