How to impress the vetting inspector - the GL HullManager

Ensuring structural integrity of your vessels becomes a key concern for tanker operators as these vessels face a lot of structural stress during their lifetime. Not only that steel repair costs and hassles with the repair yard are rising as a result, more and more charterers or the vetting inspectors on their behalf want to see how tanker operators manage the risk of structural failures which would lead to major injuries, cargo loss and pollution.
Two condition monitoring methods for structures are commonplace today. Regular and scheduled visual inspections of all tanks and cargo holds typically carried out by the crew and thickness measurements by a specialised provider. To get the results together and actions derived from that is cumbersome, time-consuming and needs a lot of communication between crew and superintendents. 
  
The common practice to record the hull condition is through paper inspection forms. Crew does their best to outline in a paper form the current condition of hull. What if you could present to your vetting inspector a complete vessel status according to different criteria such as corrosion, coating, and cracks with a mouse click? What if you could hand him over a report where all locations of findings and photos are marked on a 3D model of your vessel? 
  
Germanischer Lloyd offers an advanced hull integrity software package, the GL HullManager, to impress your vetting inspector and to facilitate the monitoring. 
Your benefits are cost and time saving: 

• Identical hull status information onboard and onshore, including a methodology to perform cost-effective inspections
• Early warning when hull condition deteriorates. This avoids costly repairs and enables crew to carry out maintenance, instead of staging, repairs and off-hire times
• Up-to-date and consistent information including a complete history of hull condition ready to use for any kind of survey, such as vetting inspections for the charterer or documentation for investors, bankers and potential buyers
• Detailed knowledge of where and when inspections and repairs have to be performed, thus avoiding surprises while in dry dock
• Fast overview of fleet status / comparison of ships of same series to avoid repeating problems with sister vessels
• Standardised reporting and assessment for internal and external use
• Works with an interactive 3D model of your vessels structure to exactly locate findings and needed actions afterwards.
• Integrates fully with a solution we provide to thickness measurement companies to get your inspection results combined with thickness measurements on the 3D model