What are the factors determine the Planned Maintenance Schedule (PMS)?

  • Accommodation ladder and gangway
  • Lifeboat falls and blocks
  • Davit pivot points
  • Fire hydrants and monitors
  • Fire hose box hinges
  • Quick release gear on bridge wing life buoys
  • All life buoys
  • Life raft securing arrangements
  • Securing bolts on international shore connection
  • Steel hatch cross joints and quick acting cleats
  • Hatch gypsy drive wheels and followers
  • Hatch contractor panel fuses, electric cables and connections, motor heaters
  • All external butterfly nuts
  • All external electric cables and deck lighting arrangements

Monthly inspection and greasing as per PMS  where necessary

  • Life boat falls for broken strands
  • Co2 cylinders in gang release system
  • Fire detection systems
  • Breathing apparatus and associated equipment
  • Ladders on masts and ventilation posts
  • Radar mast rigging
  • Fire gauze
  • Freeing ports
  • Scuppers
  • Hatchway non return valves
  • Ship side guard rails
  1. LONG TERM MAINTENANCE THREE MONTHLY INSPECTION AND/OR OVERHAUL  AS PER  PMS
  • All cargo gear
  • Navigation light connections
  • Hold ventilation systems

Six monthly inspection and/or overhaul as per PMS

  • Cargo winches
  • Strip all mooring rollers
  • Fresh water tanks
  • All running gear, strip blocks and derricks
  • Cofferdams and void spaces
  • Forepeak and after peak
  • Remove ventilator cowls and grease the coaming test dampers flaps and locking screws
  • Hold equipment such as spar ceiling, limber boards, double bottoms, manholes, wells bilge’s strum boxes .

Yearly  inspection as per  PMS

  • De rust and repaint derricks
  • End for end lifeboat falls
  • Watertight seals on hatchways
  • Loosen spare anchor securing bolts, lubricate all anchor parts and re-secure
  • Rotational cleaning and painting of store rooms, alleyways, cabins and mess rooms
  • Strip the windlass and aft mooring winch
  • Standing rigging
  1. OPERATIONAL MAINTENANCE TO BE CARRIED OUT WHEN NECESSARY
  • Anchor cable marking
  • Check mooring ropes and wires before and after use
  • All gantlines before being used on stages
  • Pilot ladder and hoists, gangways, accommodation ladders and associated equipment before and after use
  • Check anchor and cables stowed properly
  • Test fire fighting appliance before entering port
  • Test manual and emergency steering arrangements before entering coastal waters.
  • Cargo Securing arrangements.
  • All cargo gears and hatch closing arrangements before and after use .
  • Check hydraulic oil in any system.
  • Fumigate and spray holds as necessary.

 

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