A container ship suffered bottom damage due to grounding. Two shipyards were contacted to evaluate the damage and provide repair estimates. But the estimates of the amount of steel required for repairs varied by 40%. An accurate assessment of the actual extent of damage extent and required repair material was urgently needed.
The case is real and happened to a PhDsoft client, a major company that operates ships in Brazil. In a few hours, using the repair tools of C4D Software®, the steel requirements were recalculated, showing that actual repair needs were 61 tons of steel, 60% less than the high estimate. It was clear that the shipyards significantly overestimated the amount of steel to be replaced.
Considering the cost of steel renewal in local shipyards of $11K/ton, the result was a saving of $400k. With the actual figure at hand, the client could safely and confidently select the shipyard with lower price and avoid the risk of the scope of materials increasing during repair execution.
“Without C4D Software we would have been forced to blindly follow the quotation of the shipyards with no control over the situation. Without C4D we never would have received the accurate numbers in time to make the right decision. The calculation of steel renewal done by C4D Software is more accurate than the shipyard because it takes into account all the original thicknesses”, stated the company.
