3 Marine Diesel Engines Overhauled For Cutter Suction Dredger in less than 3 weeks

24,000 hour pms of 3 DEUTZ SBV8M540

One of the world’s most powerful self propelled cutter dredger Leonardo Da Vinci, with over 20,000 KW installed diesel power, required a full overhaul and reconditioning of vessels 3 main engines after more than 24,000 running hours. Timelines were extremely tight and logistics for the project extremely challenging. This project proved the value of the service agreement between Denis Diesel and Goltens Dubai to fulfill the task within a very demanding schedule of 3 weeks.

The day after the vessel berthed in DUQM yard in Oman, a team of 1 Senior Supervisor, 1 Foreman and 6 technicians boarded the vessel and worked around the clock together with 4 service engineers from Denis to perform the engine dismantling works.

The engine components were transported from DUQM OMAN to Goltens Dubai (a total distance of 1500 KM with 2 custom process stoppages between borders). Working 24/7 in Goltens’ workshop, all diesel engine components were completely reconditioned and dispatched in less than 1 week in accordance with the project plan.