On Saturday the last water was pumped out of the engine of Maersk Line’s container ship Emma Maersk, which lies in a shipyard in Palermo. Force Technology must now along with other experts try to find the cause of the accident.
"One of the questions we would like to have answered is whether the damage is something special for Emma Maersk, or if it can occur on the seven other ships in the series", says operations manager of Maersk Line, Palle B. Laursen.
A team of experts from Maersk Line, Force Technology and Rolls-Royce, together with the classification bureau ABS, have inspected the damage at close range.
The detached thrust gear will now be examined by the manufacturer Rolls-Royce, while the crack in the tunnel is cut out and sent to be studied at FORCE Technology in Københan.
Emma Maersk was hit by severe water ingress in the engine 01 February while the ship was at the entrance to the Suez Canal. The leakage occurred in the front of the two tunnels.
Connoisseurs have discussed how water could penetrate the engine from the over 100-meter-long shaft tunnel. There are many watertight doors which are supposed to keep water out.
A team of experts from Maersk Line, Force Technology and Rolls-Royce, together with the classification bureau ABS, have inspected the damage at close range.
The detached thrust gear will now be examined by the manufacturer Rolls-Royce, while the crack in the tunnel is cut out and sent to be studied at FORCE Technology in Københan.
Emma Maersk was hit by severe water ingress in the engine 01 February while the ship was at the entrance to the Suez Canal. The leakage occurred in the front of the two tunnels.
Connoisseurs have discussed how water could penetrate the engine from the over 100-meter-long shaft tunnel. There are many watertight doors which are supposed to keep water out.
This has been assessed by Maersk Line Technical Vessel Operation.
"Although the watertight bulkheads in the propshaft tunnel acted as they should, the water went to the engine via holes around the massive wiring in the tunnel", says Fleet Group Manager Francis Sommer Reuss to maritimedanmark.dk.
Maersk Line thinks, according to Francis Reuss, that an installation error has been made compared to the original drawings for the ship.
The Company is in the process of reviewing all the ships in the series and have now rediscovered the same installation errors in other ships of the type. The errors are being immediately corrected.
Frants Reuss says to maritimdanmark.dk that they on Thursday were successful in removing the thruster which is believed to have forced water into the ship. The thruster will now be sent for examination by Rolls Royce who is the producer of the thruster.
A preliminary assessment says that it will cost up to a quarter of a billion kroner to replace and repair the equipment in the engine room.
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