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Building a self propelled custom build heavy duty cutter suction dredger is not an easy exercise even if it is build at a shipyard that is familiar with this kind of vessels. Mainly this is due to the fact that such a vessel is completely integrated from front to aft and that everything is custom build. Building this vessel at an Asian Shipyard can easily be called a challenge, moreover since it is the first custom build heavy duty cutter dredger ever build in Asia.
Steel construction and piping is still well known at such a yard, but as the building proceeds more and more specialism’s are required that are unknown in this area of the world. And when it comes to pre-commissioning and commissioning and the managing of it, the yard pulls out. It is in that stage of the project that René became active in the Al Jarraf project.
From the start of pre-commissioning René organized the daily meetings, communicated with all involved parties on the yard (yard, electrical subcontractor, hydraulic subcontractor and local subcontractors) and also communicated with the European involved parties in orders to get their commissioning engineers on the right time at the yard. Furthermore he made sure that the planning could be followed as good as possible, that I/O was checked properly, supervised the flushing of the fuel, water and oil systems on board and arranged that all these actions were done in the right sequence. If necessary he checked I/O himself on board the vessel.
Al Jarraf was delivered on the 20th of June 2011, and René did a great job. For the moment René is working on our second cutter dredger under construction in Singapore.
Sven Stroo - Project manager - DEME