Improving Quality and Overcoming Challenges: Triumphant Return from Sea Trials!

Recently, another vessel in the 18,500-ton chemical tanker series returned triumphantly from a five-day sea trial, with all test items passed on the first attempt. The shipowner spoke highly of the trial performance and the overall condition of the vessel.

Over the course of five days of intensive offshore operations, the project team successfully completed all test items, including power, maneuverability, equipment interlocking and navigation performance. Compared with other vessels in the same series, this ship saw a significant reduction in rectification items during the sea trial stage. Thanks to the "building a perfect intermediate product" strategy, a high level of construction completeness was achieved at the launching stage, with a large number of construction processes and pre-outfitting operations completed to high quality before launching, thereby improving construction quality from the source. Meanwhile, during the sea trials, the on-site team simultaneously addressed the shipowner's comments and handled issues while testing, achieving immediate and efficient closed-loop resolution.

Taking rigid schedule assessment as a key lever, the project team strengthened progress analysis, risk warning and advance preparation, breaking down each milestone target and implementing it on the production front line, with item-by-item verification and dynamic inspection. As one of the company's earlier vessels to adopt inclined slipway shifting and modular construction techniques, the ship fully leveraged the advantages of these new processes to "trade space for time," shortening the underwater construction cycle by one to two months compared with other vessels in the same series and achieving a significant improvement in construction efficiency.

At present, the project team is focusing on the ship delivery milestone, continuing to advance the closed-loop resolution of comments, commissioning wrap-up and delivery preparations, so as to fulfill its delivery commitment with high quality.