On December 10, Changxing Shipyard, a subsidiary of China Shipping Industry CO., Ltd. (CIC), finished the repair job of M/V AARTI PREM bulk carrier, which departed successfully from the yard.
M/V AARTI PREM belongs to German Oldendorff company. The repair work entailed regular docking survey, TSTks and DBTks steel work- a total 80 tons of steel, testing of hatch covers steel work functions and a chalk test, along with repair of E/R pipes and valves within 26 days.
The dry-docking also included painting of the hull, propeller off/on, tailshaft taper MPI, which were all completed within the envisaged schedule.
The 23-year-old vessel features 225 metres in length, 32.2 metres in beam and has a gross tonnage of 35,889 tons.