Christening and launch of the AS Vincentia

GL Hull Manager for series of new bulk carriers

14. Jul. 2010 | The ship which has been built by Taizhou Kouan Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. is to be delivered on 30 September. A few days before the christening ceremony by the godmother Monika Penndorf who is a personal friend of the Ahrenkiel family, a contract was signed in Hamburg with Germanischer Lloyd (GL) to equip the whole series with the GL Hull Manager. Introduced in 2010, this is a new maintenance software that allows the crew to monitor and evaluate the condition of the ship's structure, tanks, holds and coatings throughout the entire lifecycle of a ship.

"The GL Hull Manager extends our previous Planned Maintenance System for the machinery to the whole body of the ship. As well as enhancing efficiency in the preparation and implementation of dock times, the new software will also give us simplified, consistent data management which will lead to improved quality in maintenance", is how the investment is justified by Christian Suhr, Managing Director at Ahrenkiel Shipmanagement GmbH & Co. KG. Once the test phase has been completed successfully, the GL Hull Manager will also be used for other parts of the Ahrenkiel fleet. The AS VINCENTIA will be one of the first ships to operate with the new maintenance software.

Germanischer Lloyd press release