- Reaction score
- 8,279
- Points
- 1,160
Or pipe work, or anything else on the unsexy mechanical side.
We're playing catchup on 30 years of 'condition based' maintenance where we didnt want to poke at it too much for the conditioned based assessments, so now back to the old style 'refit' where we have to do a lot of just straight replacement.
The LOE is astounding though, and doesn't matter how much money you throw at it there is a limit of what work you can do at the same time, so that's why they are stretching out so long.
I can't help but wonder on the life cycle cost comparison if ships were built for a 15 year life expectancy rather than 30 to 40 years.