A Liebherr deck crane on a bulk carrier of one of Alatas' world wide customers experienced a critical failure of the main slewing bearing ring, rendering the crane out of order and in danger of toppling.

The vessel was fully loaded and on voyage to the discharge port, where the use of the impaired crane was absolutely necessary, as harbour cranes were not available for dockside discharge

Experiencing Alatas expertise in the past the owner diverted the vessel to Singapore and Alatas was entrusted to manage the slew bearing change-out.

Receiving notice only 3 days in advance, Alatas made good use of it's world wide connections and managed to have a replacement slewing bearing ready for the customer in 3 days. Alatas management expertise and the extensive experience of it's professional staff and engineers paid off. Detailed planning and preparations where carried out prior arrival of the vessel. Work force, equipment and a floating crane where at the ready soon after arrival and Alatas managed to have the crane removed, replaced the bearing, re-installed it onto it's pedestal and re-connected the boom in less then 10 hours (!). The floating crane time alongside was kept well below the time limit of 12 hours and very expensive additional barge crane charges where avoided.

Congratulations to everyone involved for a job well done !