Grinning and bearing it in a Dubai drydock

摘要

A CUTTER HEAD shaft bearing inspected after ten years and more than 100,000 hours of dredging silt, sand, rocks and stone has been found to have emerged completely unscathed at a Dubai drydock. Upgrade works underway on the Dubai based National Marine Dredging Company's (NMDC) heavy duty cutter suction dredger Al Mirfa included an inspection of the Thordon Composite bearing installed on the vessel a decade ago and found it to be in perfect working condition.