Trawler travels for engine overhaul
MAN Diesel PrimeServ’ s Service Center in Frederikshavn, Denmark, has successfully completed a large main engine repair and overhaul job aboard the Argentine fishing factory trawler Centurion Del Atlantico.
The 21 year old vessel arrived at Orskov Yard in Denmark for a complete main engine overhaul and an extensive updating and renewal of the accommodation and the fish factory processing plants.
The Norwegian owner, Aker BioMarin, which is behind the company Estremar Argentina, decided to take the vessel all the way to the northern hemisphere due to the technologically specialised and demanding tasks to be performed onboard. The Centurion Del Atlantico was built in Japan in 1986 as the Akebono Maru and was the world’s largest fishing vessel at that time. It is a 118m factory trawler, fully operational with a crew of 100 persons. The vessel operates in the triangle between Argentina, the Falkland Islands and Antarctica, where various round fish like southern blue whiting and hoki are caught for the processing and fabrication of surimi.
The vessel is powered by a four stroke medium speed MAN Diesel main engine of type 6L58/64, built under license by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which had clocked some 140,000 hours prior to arrival at Orskov.
The yard teams were able to crane handle major main engine components like the frame and crankshaft. The vessel’s existing oil mist detector was updated with a new Splash Oil System ordered from PrimeServ Hamburg and fitted in only two days. Start-up, quay trials and the sea trials required only a few pump to be replaced. Centurion Del Atlantico has returned to harsh Argentinian waters and its fishing operations with complete reliability.
