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Newport Shipping puts more supply deals in place, working on scrubbers, BWTS next

Fresh from signing new cooperation agreements with several marine equipment suppliers and service companies, Newport Shipping is looking at similar agreements with scrubber and ballast water treatment system (BWTS) manufacturers soon.

Vincent Wee, Hong Kong and South East Asia Correspondent

August 10, 2018

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As part of the London-headquartered company’s commitment to providing shipowners with quality turnkey shiprepair and retrofit solutions across its partner shipyards, recent agreements with hatch cover specialist Navitech, machinery specialist IngeJov, and ShipParts.com for turnkey spares supply, give Newport Shipping the ability to procure spare parts and deliver specialised services on behalf of its customers as part of the group’s global shiprepair service offering.

Newport Shipping coo Roy Yap said similar agreements are currently being negotiated with other suppliers, notably scrubber and ballast water treatment system manufacturers.

“We will be shortly announcing several cooperation agreements with scrubber makers and 3D scanning and engineering companies towards providing a turnkey scrubber retrofit offering backed with financing,” he said.

“We are further exploring introducing riding squads to carry out afloat repair works and scrubber retrofits, which can shorten the duration for retrofit considerably or carry out the retrofits entirely or partially afloat; with or without drydocking. This is expected to reduce the off-hire times faced by shipowners for scrubber retrofits,” Yap added.

David Luan, founder and ceo, ShipParts.com, an online platform offering marine equipment spare parts online fulfillment services to both sides of the procurement process, said: “We are delighted to have signed this cooperation agreement with Newport Shipping. The agreement allows its shipowner customers and partner shipyards to benefit from economies of scale, with access to more than 5,800 equipment suppliers and counting, including all the major brands. The agreement also fits well with ShipParts.com strategy of increased global reach of our online spare parts procurement platform.”

Under the agreement, all spare parts required by Newport Shipping customers will be procured and fulfilled by the ShipParts.com portal and delivered to the yard before vessel arrival.

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Yap said: “We aim to deliver turnkey services to shipowners that go beyond the conventional shiprepair scope. The cooperation agreements we now have in place with the suppliers of quality spares and specialists support our objective of delivering a standard quality level across all our partner shipyards around the globe “

The scope of supply, together with drydocking costs and any other pre-agreed shiprepair expenditure is included in Newport Shipping’s all-in-one invoice concept and payable from 12 to 24-months.

About the Author

Vincent Wee

Hong Kong and South East Asia Correspondent

Vincent Wee is Seatrade's Hong Kong correspondent covering Hong Kong and South China while also making use of his Malay language skills to cover the Malaysia and Indonesia markets. He has gained a keen insight and extensive knowledge of the offshore oil and gas markets gleaned while covering major rig builders and offshore supply vessel providers.

Vincent has been a journalist for over 15 years, spending the bulk of his career with Singapore's biggest business daily the Business Times, and covering shipping and logistics since 2007. Prior to that he spent several years working for Brunei's main English language daily as well as various other trade publications.

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