Ship repair and maintenance services market is anticipated to register a CAGR of 6.5 percent until 2031. The inclination of international trade has been towards the seaborne route owing to the substantially, lower cost of transportation and significantly higher carrying capacity. On the back of this, the market for ship repair & maintenance services is predicted to grow.
Since customers in this segment are ship owners, their expectations include quality ship repair services at competitive prices. To continue staying in the business while there cannot be any compromise on the quality, ship repairers need to be cost-conscious to be competitive.
Perfectly understanding the aforementioned requirements of clients Nellore based Harkamal Maritime Industries Pvt Ltd, an ISO 9001 (2015) and IACS Certified organization offers a wide range of highest standard marine services which includes ship repairs and maintenance at competitive prices. Harkamal offers 100 percent holistic solutions in the ship repairs segment at any port.
It also offers end-to-end services in the marine industry that include all types of Hull, Mechanical, Electrical, Hydraulic, electronics repairs, dredging, offshore and sub-sea projects, SWIO pipelines, turnkey execution and maintenance, heavy engineering
design and fabrication, salvage, diving, and underwater works of all types, Fumigation & Pest Control, Oily Waste Reception and many other services like Bunker and Stores supplies, Clearing and Forwarding, Steamer agency, Customs House Agency and more.
Easing the decision-making process
Since the company undertakes the complete responsibility of successfully executing any work as a single point of contact for the ship owner, it helps in saving a lot of time and cost for the ship owner. This ensures that the ship owner need not have to deal with several agencies and stakeholders such as suppliers or ports, transporters, or authorities. Since most of the ship repairs are planned well in advance, emergency repairs are very fewand when these are planned well in advance pricing plays the most important role and this eases the decision-making process of the ship owners.
While other ship repair companies are specialists in only one or two segments of the ship repairs, Harkamal provides all types of ship repairs and serves the well-reputed foreign and Indian shipping companies at all the Indian ports. It also undertakes various technologically complex ship repairs abroad depending upon the location of the particular ship and these are some of the factors that differentiate Harkamal from the other players in this landscape.
Extremely complex projects
“We have also carried out a few extremely complex works such as permanent insert repairs on Bilge Keel steel vertical cracks on a laden capsized vessel using hydro statically balanced cofferdam and refurbishment of dam¬aged Gearbox and Main Engine Shafts of loaded vessel”, says Capt. Pradeep Kant Gaur, Managing Director, Harkamal Maritime Industries.
“Other than these we also have separate business verticals of civil construction, mechanical, fabrication, and dredging work. Further, we also have marine consultancy and Project consultancy. Therefore, these separate business verticals give us a wider knowledge base and distinct advantage to carry out research and innovations over the traditional ship repair companies”, he adds.
End-to-end ship repairing services
Some of these works were successfully executed for the first time in India and have been known to the market and these have helped in proving the quality of the works carried out by Harkamal Maritime. Therefore, today the company is known for carrying out end-to-end extremely complex ship re¬pairs, which were earlier considered to be impossible to be carried out in India.
Large-scale marine workshop with state-of-the-art equipment
Harkamal’s full-scale Marine work¬shop at Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh is installed with all the required state-of-the-art equipment, including mobile cranes and all types of equipment for carrying out mechanical repairs and fabrication processes.
