Steel hull ship 67 was fitted with a bad engine.

The competent authority has assessed that 17 steel-hulled fishing boats of Binh Dinh province, newly built under Program 67, were equipped with equipment that did not match the design documents. In particular, some boats were equipped with floating engines, or old engines that had been "retouched". Nam Trieu Company Limited has agreed to replace all 10 main engines that are not synchronized for these fishing boats.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Binh Dinh province announced the preliminary results of the appraisal team of steel-hulled ships built under Decree 67/CP in Binh Dinh...

At the end of May 2017, 18 ship owners sent a petition to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Binh Dinh, reporting that steel-hulled ships were damaged and did not meet the quality standards set by the contract, including one fishing boat that sank.

Check where, detect violations there

On June 2, 2017, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee issued a decision to establish an appraisal working group to clearly determine the quality, value, origin of products and operational features of the hull, engine and marine equipment, and exploitation of 17 fishing vessels with requests and petitions from fishermen. These fishing vessels have been stuck on shore for several months now.

Mr. Tran Van Phuc, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Binh Dinh province, said that based on the records and documents of the commercial banks with which the fishermen signed loan contracts under Decree 67, the appraisal team determined that there were 5 steel-hulled fishing boats built by Dai Nguyen Duong Company Limited with steel originating from China and 12 steel-hulled fishing boats built by Nam Trieu Company Limited with steel originating from Korea.

Through inspection, 12 ships' hulls were rusted, 5 ships' hulls, cabins, and deck equipment were heavily rusted, seriously degraded compared to ships built and operating at the same time.

Checking the ship's construction records, it shows 9 Mitsubishi main engines with 940 HP capacity and 4 S6R-MPTA engines with 811 HP capacity. However, in reality, the details: fresh water air-cooled condenser, external seawater pump, reworked cooling pipe system...

The above details come with asynchronous motors and are not suitable for the operating principles of Mitsubishi marine engines. Most of these main engines are unstable. Mitsubishi has confirmed in writing that it does not produce engines with the model and capacity as stated on the engine decal.

Obviously, this is an act of machine swapping by the shipyard, installing floating machines of unknown origin. There are 3 main engines of Doosan brand, 880PS capacity, Doosan main engines have the synchronous structure of marine engines. However, during operation, the engines are unstable and overheat.

Through inspection, there were 25 auxiliary engines installed on 17 steel-hulled ships. Of these, 10 were Mitsubishi - Japan, 2 engines had no labels, only hidden numbers.

Check the actual situation and compare with the records: there is 1 CUMMINS auxiliary engine made in China, 2 auxiliary engines do not have labels showing engine parameters, only have the serial number stamped.

Regarding marine equipment, 2 horizontal depth sounders had broken probe systems and could not be used; the horizontal fish sounder had a broken probe control system.

Checking the storage system of 17 ships, discovered that 14 ships had water stagnant in the storage tanks, poor heat retention, uneven foam pumping, and rust...

Early machine replacement and equipment repair

The problem is that, previously, the main engines installed on the ships were all inspected by inspectors before installation and confirmed to be 100% new. Now, it has been discovered that the engines are floating, the old engines have been "retouched", clearly the responsibility of the inspection agency.

Although launched in 2016, many steel-hulled boats of Binh Dinh fishermen are now rusted everywhere. Photo: Du Tuan

At the meeting, Mr. Dao Hong Duc, Director of the Fishing Vessel Inspection Center of the General Department of Fisheries admitted: “Clearly, there are mistakes here by the inspectors who have not closely monitored all the parts related to the actual machinery with or without problems. Therefore, there are details that are manufactured and then counterfeited very sophisticatedly that the inspectors cannot identify. In the future, we will review very clearly the process and implementation methods of the inspectors, and improve the capacity of the inspectors.”

To overcome the problem, the Working Group proposed that Nam Trieu Company Limited replace all 10 main non-synchronous machines for fishing boats. Supplement documents proving the difference in machine symbols between the records and the reality of 3 genuine Doosan machines. Fix and repair damaged auxiliary machines.

For the hull, it is recommended that Nam Trieu LLC and Dai Nguyen Duong LLC clean the surface and repaint it according to the steel hull maintenance process for rusty ships.

If the hull plating inspection of the ships does not meet grade A steel standards, the entire ship will be re-inspected and re-evaluated, and the hull plating inspections that do not meet grade A steel standards will be replaced.

If the ship owner and the facility agree, the shipbuilding facility must return the price difference between Korean or Japanese steel and Chinese steel to the ship owner.

Mr. Nguyen Huu Hung - Deputy General Director of Nam Trieu Company pledged to the local authorities and ship owners to soon replace 10 unsuitable engines installed on the boats of Binh Dinh fishermen. At the same time, the company will replace unsuitable equipment and repaint the boats for fishermen as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, Dai Nguyen Duong Company Limited, although invited, did not attend the meeting, so its opinion has not been recorded.

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