Meiderich Tackles Re-engine Projects

A spokesman told MJ that the yard, founded in 1898, re-engined the inland vessel

Willi Raab

, installing an MTU 12V 4000 M60 engine and Masson MMW 7300 gearbox along with, for the first time ever, a diesel particle filter

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The contract was won on the back of two re-engine projects carried out last year

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The motor ship

Plochingen

got a new MTU 4000 series engine and a Mercedes Benz OM 424 unit was installed in the bunker boat

Büchting 2

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Earlier this year, MSW installed a Wärtsilä engine Type UD 25 V12 M5D on the motor ship Yvonne K

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All the MSW re-engine projects included the renewal of cooling systems and pipework

Other notable recent projects at MSW have included the repair of bow damage on the river cruise ship Bellriva

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The project was completed in just ten days, working in two shifts to keep out of service time to a minimum

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Well versed in unusual ship conversions, MSW also recently joined two 32

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5m lighters together and converted the resultant vessel into a floating exhibition and event ship

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The yard also constructed and mounted a novel 40m long and 4

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5m high billboard on the motor ship Helmut to advertise the latest bikini collection of a German clothing manufacturer

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The billboard pictured a model in a bikini lounging along almost the entire length of the ship

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Ten floodlights lit her up at night along the Rhine between Duisburg and Karlsruhe

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As part of a mobile service, in which MSW sends individual experts or teams abroad to handle jobs on site, new jets were installed recently in the pushboat Cetus on the River Seine for a French customer

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In another case, new sections were built at the yard and transported abroad to replace damaged sections on a client’s ship

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‘MSW’s mobile repair service, backed by a network of specialist firms, will help at any time abroad and will come right to the ship involved’, the MSW spokesman told MJ

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By Tom Todd