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Royal IHC has hired Rene as site manager electrical & automation for the commissioning period of the TSHD Bonny River that Royal IHC had built by COSCO Guangdong China. Royal IHC was also responsible for the entire electrical and automation installation of both the ship and the dredging installation.
The Bonny River is a Complex Trailing suction Hopper dredger with two suction pipes, one of which is equipped with an electric underwater pump, allowing dredging to a depth of more than 100 Meters. In addition, the ship is prepared for LNG and has a DP2 notation.
Rene's activities were: coordinating and updating the planning with COSCO and the client on a daily basis, managing the electrical & automation commissioning site team which consisted of own commissioning engineers but also commissioning engineers from the many subcontractors. He was ultimately responsible for the commissioning of the various electrical and automation systems to be ready on time for HAT's SAT take-offs and FMEA tests, so that the ship could be handed over to the customer.
Despite the time constraints and the degree of difficulty of such a complex ship, Rene always managed to steer his team in a positive way and he ensured a good mutual atmosphere in the team. In addition, Rene has an extremely broad knowledge and experience of the commissioning process of such complex ships. As a result, he was also able to provide technical support to his team, and he was able to identify problems and bottlenecks in the planning on time and to come up with the right solutions.
Certainly thanks to Rene, the ship was handed over to the customer and he was the right man in the right place for us.
Teunis van Buren - Project Manager - E&A - Royal IHC