Category Archives: Repairs

COMPA Repair of leaking fuel tank

leaking fuel tank repair

The crack appeared on the tank plate between the heavy fuel and the ballast tanks causing the leakage of the fuel into the ballast water. The ship needed a rapid and efficient repair solution. Our COMPA Repairs team worked for several hours while the ship was in the port to stop the leakage using our innovative […]

COMPA Repair of heavily damaged pipe of the anti-heeling system

anti-heeling system pipe repair

Our technical team successfully performed another COMPA repair on a container ship during its navigation between Hamburg and Antwerp ports! The anti-heeling system had a faulty GRP (glass-fibre) pipe that was leaking sea water heavily. The severity of the damage was vast and dozens of layers of carbon needed to be applied. Our team worked […]

COMPA Repairs technology is used on board container vessel for a scrubber system

composite technology pipe repair

Our COMPA Repair engineers and technical specialists once again managed to repair leaking glass-fibre pipe during a port call in Antwerp, Belgium. The purpose of the repair was to ensure more permanent structural integrity and watertightness of the pipe containing natrium hydroxide (NaOH) and being the part of the scrubber system. The pipe was previously repaired by the ship’s crew using a pipe repair kit, but the pipe started leaking after […]

Another COMPA Repair of sea water pipe

Repairing vessel's sea water pipe in confined interior place

We had another busy month applying COMPA Repairs technology. The latest repair was conducted during the vessel’s stay in Genova port and involved repair of the crack on a leaking main sea water pipe.  To reinforce the pipe and to gain watertightness, our specialists applied COMPA patches to the inner and outer side of the […]

COMPA Repairs of sea water pipes

COMPA Repairs team performed another repair on-board a Ro-Ro ship. The service was carried out on the main sea water recirculation pipe and cooler inlet pipe during a short stay in the port of Antwerp. COMPA Repairs is an innovative technology that utilises carbon-composite to reinstate strength and water tightness to repaired parts.

New application of COMPA Repairs

The past months have been busy for COMPA Repairs engineering and technical team. We have successfully engineered and implemented several COMPA Repairs using carbon/glass reinforced epoxy patch. The repair cases onboard Ro-Ro vessels varied including: a repair of a corroded bulkhead between ballast and HFO tanks, a repair of double bottom tank plating, reinforcement of […]