Schedule

This course is intended to assist the technical and marine staff of shipping companies to deal with repair yards and shipyards during all stages of a project including requests for yard quotations, comparison of offers, award of repairs, project and quality management during project execution through to invoice negotiations.

• Issuing and planning of the annual repair schedule
• Preparing and issuing vessel repair specifications
• Cooperating with the vessel’s deck and engine staff to determine the vessel’s repair and maintenance needs
• Preparing work table from the final repair specification – relevant cost calculations and comparisons
• Requesting yard quotations and providing guidance to the yards for submitting comparable cost and time quotations
• Explaining the comparison of yard quotations on a cost and time basis
• Calculating the repair and dry docking costs – positioning/re-positioning, off-hire and expenses
• Decision making for award of the repair contract.
• Shipyard’s repair production schedule and daily project management meetings
• Quality control, safety, time constraints and work complexities and interrelations
• Using the repair specifications for the qualitative and quantitative completion and acceptance of the works
• Procedures and plans for dealing with yard extras and extensions of the vessel’s overall repair time
• Effective invoice negotiations

Superintendents, port captains and technical managers who have a responsibility for dry docking ships and other floating assets. This course meets the requirements of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology for continuous Professional Development.