WSS opens new Suez liferaft station
Wilhelmson Ships Service (WSS) has opened a new liferaft station in Suez, Egypt, to service vessels transitting the Suez Canal and surrounding ports.
The new station will offer liferaft servicing and enable customers to carry out liferaft exchanges as part of the WSS Liferaft Exchange Programme (LRE) at the ports of Alexandria, Port Said, Damietta, Safaga and Nuwaiba.
Russell Dinwoodie, general manager, WSS Egypt, said: “Its strategic location will benefit ship operators by allowing them to utilise our full range of liferaft services whilst waiting to transit the Canal avoiding costly deviations, uncertainty over service and supply levels and ultimately, making passage more efficient.”
WSS’s LRE allows out of date liferafts to be exchanged for new ones to help ensure that vessels remain compliant and enable customers to take better control of costs.
Under the agreement, WSS undertakes to rent liferafts to their customers’ vessels on an annual basis. At the end of each year, liferafts are exchanged for newly-certified liferafts in one of the agreed exchange ports around the world.
With over 17,000 vessel transits per year in the Suez Canal, it’s a strategic pick of location for a service station by WSS.
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