TITLE:
Study and Analysis of Obstacles and Challenges Facing Ship-Repair Industry in Iran
AUTHORS:
Reza Bozorgpour, Behrouz Omaraee, Mohsen Vaez Zadeh Asadi
KEYWORDS:
Maritime Transport, Ship Repair Dry Dock, Periodic Maintenance, Travel Repairs, The Persian Gulf, The Ship
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Marine Science,
Vol.7 No.4,
October
10,
2017
ABSTRACT:
Nowadays, shipping industry which is the backbone of economic development
has affiliated to ship maintenance and repair industry. This industry
provides technical maintenance services to ships in a way to enable them to
meet the requirements and regulations of the International Maritime Organization
and maintaining the vessels at high technical standard & continual
seaworthiness condition. Maintaining the minimum requirement of classification
societies on the ships is solely taken place with repairs. The research method
is an applied study in sake of aim and a descriptive study in sake of nature.
This research has been conducted to examine causes and factors contributed
to failures repairing in dry docks in the country; using the obtained results,
an approach has been presented to reduce obstacles existing in country
and reach to standard international levels. The problems include lack of suitable
strategy, lack of government support, governmental facet of the structure
of this sector, cumbersome laws, customs problems, lack of specialized workshops,
low levels of technology and lack of new technology etc. Thus, by taking
amendment to the cumbersome rules, taking advantage of industry and
modern technology experts, increasing productivity and competitiveness,
centralizing active domestic and foreign workshops at private sector, facilitating
timely supply of parts and accessories, using research and development
sector, increasing quality, reducing costs and repair time, selecting secure industrial-
trade partner and etc. can pave the way in this context.