Working safely with an international team during corona
Ambitious “Green Corridor” enables commissioning of patrol vessel
proud of the result
Edwin Moed: “All partners have done their utmost to make the project a safe success. Despite the many precautions, a few employees tested positive just before the sea trial, but through additional testing, we were able to isolate them immediately and the situation remained manageable.”
And the vessel? It was successfully tested and is almost ready for delivery. All foreign employees have returned home safely. Edwin Moed and Thierry Platteel, at a distance but in unison: “A result we’re all very proud of!”
Green Corridor
The ability to be critical of each other is perhaps one of the most important preconditions for a close relationship. Thierry Platteel explains: “In close collaboration with Damen and the other partners, we have always critically reviewed and further refined all protocols of Edwin and his team. In the end, we all dared to do it and started work in mid-September, based on version 13 of the protocol.” The safe bubble was given the name ‘Green corridor’, to show that this working method was based on optimism. It was a great success.
hermetically sealed
From transport from the airport to a private floor in the hotel and from transport to the wharf to a closed container compound with its own toilet and washing areas: everything had to be hermetically sealed and recorded. The aim was to keep everyone working on the vessel completely cut off from uninvolved yard workers and the local community.
controlled bubble
Then Edwin Moed came up with an ambitious and comprehensive plan, in close collaboration with his Romanian colleagues. He says: “I realised that the only workable way would be to set up and maintain a completely safe, controlled bubble from the moment an employee sets foot in Romania until he gets back on the plane. We can’t control what happens on the plane, but we can control everything afterwards.”
FACTS &
FIGURES
workable solution
Moed consulted with his project partners about ways to deliver the vessel. One of those partners was Thierry Platteel, District Service Manager at Pon Power. He says: “As Pon Power, we have had a close relationship with Damen Shipyards for decades and we support each other through thick and thin. These patrol vessels also had a complete Cat power train with their Cat engines and Berg Propulsion CPP, so together with our Pon sister company Bolier and other subcontractors, we wanted to come up with a workable solution to put the vessel into operation.” But Romania was under a code orange and the partners were not very willing to allow their employees to travel to that country…
What do you do if just before commissioning a patrol vessel at a wharf in Romania, a pandemic locks up all of Europe? While the client would like to see his vessel delivered? That issue was the responsibility of Edwin Moed, project manager at Damen Shipyards. He and colleagues from Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania came up with an ambitious solution, he involved his Pon partners, among others, and made it happen. “We thought a ‘green’ corridor sounded very positive.”
GREEN corridor
not easily impressed
As a project manager at shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group, Moed is not easily impressed by an unexpected situation. But what happened in March 2020, also demanded the utmost of his ability to resolve. He says: “At our yard in Galati, Romania, we had built two patrol vessels for a government client. The first was completed in February, the second was to follow a little later. But then the corona crisis broke out and with that the commissioning of that vessel also entered a kind of lockdown.”
Thierry Platteel
District Service Manager, Pon Power
“As Pon Power, we support our partner Damen through thick and thin”
Edwin Moed
Projectmanager Damen Shipyards
“All partners have done their utmost to make the project a safe success”
Working safely with an international team during corona
Ambitious “Green Corridor” enables commissioning of patrol vessel
What do you do if just before commissioning a patrol vessel at a wharf in Romania, a pandemic locks up all of Europe? While the client would like to see his vessel delivered? That issue was the responsibility of Edwin Moed, project manager at Damen Shipyards. He and colleagues from Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania came up with an ambitious solution, he involved his Pon partners, among others, and made it happen. “We thought a ‘green’ corridor sounded very positive.”
“As Pon Power, we support our partner Damen through thick and thin”
District Service Manager, Pon Power
Thierry Platteel
not easily impressed
As a project manager at shipbuilder Damen Shipyards Group, Moed is not easily impressed by an unexpected situation. But what happened in March 2020, also demanded the utmost of his ability to resolve. He says: “At our yard in Galati, Romania, we had built two patrol vessels for a government client. The first was completed in February, the second was to follow a little later. But then the corona crisis broke out and with that the commissioning of that vessel also entered a kind of lockdown.”
workable solution
Moed consulted with his project partners about ways to deliver the vessel. One of those partners was Thierry Platteel, District Service Manager at Pon Power. He says: “As Pon Power, we have had a close relationship with Damen Shipyards for decades and we support each other through thick and thin. These patrol vessels also had a complete Cat power train with their Cat engines and Berg Propulsion CPP, so together with our Pon sister company Bolier and other subcontractors, we wanted to come up with a workable solution to put the vessel into operation.” But Romania was under a code orange and the partners were not very willing to allow their employees to travel to that country…
controlled bubble
Then Edwin Moed came up with an ambitious and comprehensive plan, in close collaboration with his Romanian colleagues. He says: “I realised that the only workable way would be to set up and maintain a completely safe, controlled bubble from the moment an employee sets foot in Romania until he gets back on the plane. We can’t control what happens on the plane, but we can control everything afterwards.”
hermetically sealed
From transport from the airport to a private floor in the hotel and from transport to the wharf to a closed container compound with its own toilet and washing areas: everything had to be hermetically sealed and recorded. The aim was to keep everyone working on the vessel completely cut off from uninvolved yard workers and the local community.
GREEN corridor
FACTS & FIGURES
SHIPYARD
Damen Shipyards Galati, Romania
PROJECT
Commissioning Offshore Patrol Vessel
MOTORISATION
4 x Cat C3516 with Cat Propulsion Controllable Pitch Propeller
CHALLENGE
Let an international team work safely in times of corona
proud of the result
Edwin Moed: “All partners have done their utmost to make the project a safe success. Despite the many precautions, a few employees tested positive just before the sea trial, but through additional testing, we were able to isolate them immediately and the situation remained manageable.”
And the vessel? It was successfully tested and is almost ready for delivery. All foreign employees have returned home safely. Edwin Moed and Thierry Platteel, at a distance but in unison: “A result we’re all very proud of!”
Green Corridor
The ability to be critical of each other is perhaps one of the most important preconditions for a close relationship. Thierry Platteel explains: “In close collaboration with Damen and the other partners, we have always critically reviewed and further refined all protocols of Edwin and his team. In the end, we all dared to do it and started work in mid-September, based on version 13 of the protocol.” The safe bubble was given the name ‘Green corridor’, to show that this working method was based on optimism. It was a great success.
“All partners have done their utmost to make the project a safe success”
Projectmanager Damen Shipyards
Edwin Moed
