Damen Shipyards has established three strategic partnership agreements with major Ballast Water Treatment (BWT) system suppliers. It complements the worldwide One Stop BWT Retrofitting Service offered by Damen.
With over 60.000 vessels to be retrofitted in the near future there is a need to coordinate and ensure cost effective implementation and life cycle support. With the large number of vessels to be retrofitted, there will be subsequent supply problems for BWT equipment, engineering and class in a booming market.
Damen has chosen to include BWT systems manufactured by its strategic retrofit partners: Trojan Marinex, Bio-UV, and Evoqua Water Technologies. All BWT systems of these partners are IMO type approved and are USCG AMS accepted.
Damen BWT experts use 3D scan techniques to create a customized engineering package. Installation of a BWTS can be done at one of the Damen Shiprepair & Conversion shipyards. Systems can also be installed at a customer selected non-Damen yard or during operation.
Gert-Jan Oude Egberink, Damen Manager Ballast Water Treatment, said: “We are very pleased announcing our strategic BWT partners Trojan Marinex, Bio-UV and Evoqua.
It means we can address many of the retrofit concerns in the shipping industry.
I think there is no other global company that has this one-stop-shop, with the yard and the engineering capacity, a vast knowledge of shipbuilding, global service capacity, purchasing power and key strategic partnerships.
Our customers have a long term trusted partner and peace of mind.”