We help shipowners take preventive, proactive, and corrective measures to eliminate or minimize accidents/ incidents and a near miss. We are consistent and persistent in delivering our best services as per the current industry requirements to satisfy our clients.
Features of our Audits & Inspections
Alphard recognizes the importance of vessels to maintain both safety and efficient marine operations. Our qualified and experienced auditors provide an extensive range of Audit and Inspection services to global markets to meet our client’s specific requirements and international industry standards.
SeaPro is one of the pioneering companies in petroleum and marine services in the Middle East and Africa, which was established in 2004 in Alexandria, Egypt. As a result of the growing offshore market and increase in its activities since 2007, the company turned into an Egyptian Stock Company under “SeaPro Petroleum and Marine Services S.A.E.” By 2013, a new free-zone company “Sea Projects” was added to the earlier sister to form the “SeaPro Group.”
Featues of SeaPro
Sea-Pro Engineering, a sister concern of Alphard, is the Middle East representative for leading Lifting Technology company Smag/Peiner.
Sea-Pro Engineering possesses ISO 9001, 14001, & 18001 accreditation.
Peiner is the leading manufacturer of motor grabs and is world-renowned for durability and high productivity in its products, with over 30,000 grabs delivered and currently operating throughout the world.
Peiner develops and provides our clients with grabs that they can rely on for various applications.
Sea-Pro specially designs and manufactures grab/spreader for concrete blocks for marine construction.
Sea-Pro also offers after-sales support to our clients and has a state of the art workshop in Jebel Ali.
Based on recent developments in maritime communications, such as satellites and digital technology, Alphard is designed to ensure maximum availability of safety-related communication for passenger safety on passenger ships and cargo vessels of 300 GT and upwards engaged in international voyages.*
The goal of Alphard is to virtually guarantee that complying vessels will be able to communicate with an onshore station at any time, from any location, in case of distress, or to exchange safety-related information.
Features of our Radio Equipment & Survey Division
– We provide ‘service on request’ to meet equipment installations, equipment repairs, and emergency service needs.
– We undertake services on systems of Navigation, Communications & Safety Equipments
Core Activity included:
- Supply
- Installations
- Radio Surveys
- Interfacing
- Service of Navcom Equipment
- Turnkey Project Handling
- Retrofit Services
- Warranty after sales & support
UGT/NDT services were one of the first of Alphard Maritime services, who made an entryway into the Shipping industry. Alphard Maritime started its journey of serving clients with UTG / NDT in 2009. We provide class approved Ultrasonic Thickness Measurement (UTM) to clients at a global level. Our team consists of experts in UTG / NDT services, which are surveyed with all kinds of vessels, including but not limited to LNG, LPG, Oil / Chemical Tankers, Bulk Carriers, Passenger Ships, Rigs, and support vessels. We are ISO 9001:2015 & ISO 14001:2004 certified, with approval from various classification societies to undertake the Ultrasonic Thickness Measurement (UTM) of Hull Structures.
Our technical prowess:
The following global maritime shipping companies certify our technical prowess:
- American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
- Bureau Veritas (BV)
- Korean Register of Shipping (KR)
- Lloyd’s Register (LR)
- Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and Germanischer Lloyd (GL)
- Indian Register of Shipping (IRS)
- Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (NKK)
- Registro Italiano Navale (RINA)
- China classification society (CCS)
Alphard has been providing commercial diving services for more than a decade now, with services ranging from welding inspections to underwater construction.
We have been involved in the inspection -Looking at different parts of the subsidy structure by checking in different wells, in addition to underwater video photography of your vessel/marine platform.
Over the last several years, Alphard Maritime has invested a lot into the diving aspect of their business, building a completely new and efficient dive system which makes use of state of the art equipment and safety considerations. All our employees at Alphard have undergone intense training.
Being one of the diving contractors, we are well set in the field and produce some of the finest diving projects in the world.
Features of Alphard’s Offshore diving services
We have been successfully carrying our Diving & Underwater services for a year now. Our diving managers & supervisors are commercial divers with over 25 years of diving experience. Hence, they are able to add an extensive amount of value to our client’s needs. The following are our core strengths –
- We have our own dedicated Dive Boats which are fully equipped (Alphard 7, Alphard 16, Alphard 25, and Alphard 34)
- Equipped with our own Diving Spreads on board, which requires no loading time A panel of 3 diving men with surfaced supplied-air which is provided for the working diver.
- A panel of 3 diving men with surfaced supplied-air, which is provided for the working diver.
- 2 TV screens for a diving supervisor to monitor the diving activities carried out on each boat.
- 1 TV screen for client representatives in a cabin with air conditioning and comfortable seats to watch the diving work for any kind of inspection.
- We have our own HPU and a pair of powerful brush cards from Piccard.
- Special brushes for use on silicon paint
- 4 KMB band mask 18 to tackle hull cleaning – CCTV inspections & propeller polishing to Rupert “A” grade.
- HSE part 2 certified diving supervisor with over 1000 dives logged.
- HSE part 1 certified lead diver.
- Dedicated diving operational team to manage from on-shore.
- Class approved with ABS, LR, DNV-GL, NKK, BV and for In-Water Survey inspection (UWILD) We are in the process to get approval with IR, KR, and RINA.
- Always finding ways to improve our services with the client`s detailed feedback.Tug Inspections, maintenance & salvage in water removal of wire chain and line from the running gear.
- Class (UWIL Inspection) and vessel inspection, maintenance, salvage, pressure/patching, and shipping
- Hull cleaning of any kind of fouling condition (laid up).
- Loss Anchor search (Anchorage & OPL).
- Bow thruster cleaning and polishing.
- Side sonar scan and recovery.
- Cutting & welding services.
- Propeller polishing.
- Sea chest cleaning.
- Hydrographic surveys.
For your business purposes, Alphard Maritime services will deliver all the following:
- Ship Agency: Includes several services that are to be carried out before, during, and after the operation of the ship.
- Protecting Agency: We provide shipping agency services to the shipowners: charterers, time charterers in situations where the conflict of interests exists, or anticipated from the shipping agent.
- Husbandry Services: Hips husbandry or ship husbandry is all aspects of maintenance, cleaning, and general upkeep of the hull, rigging, and equipment of a ship.
- Port of Refuge: Port of refuge is a situation wherein a vessel has to be diverted to a port because of an emergency which has made it unsafe to sail further.
- Ship Supply: We deal in supplying required commodities for a shipping vessel and its crew.Bunker Fuels: Bunker fuel is the generic term given to any fuel poured into a ship’s bunkers to power its engines.
- Bunker Fuels: Bunker fuel is the generic term given to any fuel poured into a ship’s bunkers to power its engines.
- Ship Spares Logistics: We provide ship spares Logistics for freight forwarders involved in the transportation of marine parts, 24 hours a day.
- Ship-to-Ship Transfers: Ships like oil tankers and gas carriers carry a huge amount of cargo in bulk which not only have to be unloaded in just one port but at different ports. Even some carriers like VLCC and ULCC which are massive in size do not berth in port or jetty for discharge operation due to drought restrictions. In such condition ship to ship transfer is utilized.
- Weather Solutions: We understand the information requirements of shipping operations and we will consult with you to tailor a package of forecasts to your particular needs.
- Maritime Security Services: Maritime security is concerned with the prevention of intentional damage through sabotage, subversion, or terrorism.
- Ship Lay-Up: The term laid-up ships means ships, which are temporarily idle due to lack of cargo or which are temporarily phased out of commercial operations.
- Manning Services: Minimum safe manning is the level of manning that will ensure that a ship is sufficiently, effectively, and efficiently manned to provide: safety and security of the ship.
Logistics
- Contract Logistics: Contract logistics involves outsourcing of resource management operations to a third party company.
- Freight Services & Freight Forwarding: Freight forwarding is the coordination and shipment of goods from one place to another.
- International Moving: International movement of marine cargo.
- Land Transportation: We also help with land transportation of cargo.
- Project Logistics
- Upstream Oil & Gas Logistics
- Warehousing & Distribution
Marine
To focus on your core business, the easiest way is to leverage the logistics and distribution expertise of a reputed company and that is where Alphard Group comes in to help you out in the following ways;
- Mooring Master Services
- Offshore Support
- Towage & Barge Operations
You need a captain who knows how to navigate, along with chief engineers who know every detail of engines, plus experienced crews on board ships, and a management team on land that understands every detail.
At Antlia, the offshore fleet management shipping services & ship management unit of the Alphard Group, that’s what we do.
We come from a long history of shipping. Most of our key managers have served on ships as captains, chief officers, and masters. This in-depth knowledge has been the key to our success. Today’s ships are bigger than those of the past, and there’s much more cargo, and ship traffic is increasing rapidly. And unfortunately, the number of ports is not growing together with the fleet. The difficulties are growing by the day.
So if you don’t have well-trained people on your ship, you expose yourself to some imminent problems later.
Features of Antlia
Antlia Marine Management DMCC, headquartered in Dubai, is a sister concern of Alphard, established in 2014. We have a global presence and have managed the diversified type of vessels in the main and offshore fleet efficiently. Our team operates Tankers, Dry Cargo Vessels, Offshore Support Vessels, and Coastal Cargo Transporting Vessels trading worldwide.
- Antlia team comprises a management team with over 500 years of collective experience in myriad industries such as shipping, manufacturing, finance, logistics amongst others.
- Vessels managed by us are operated by experienced and professional seafarers with a rich culture of safety and efficiency. Our crew has experience in working in a multinational environment.
- The Alphard Maritime Fleet Management team, which includes technical, logistics, and human resources, support the fleet activities on a day to day basis.
- We seamlessly coordinate with vessel charterers and make on the spot decisions in support of customers to schedule vessel movements.
We are rapidly expanding and are now exploring various new business lines in offshore services across India & the Middle East.
The Group is in the process of taking over a fleet of twenty-seven offshore vessels comprising AHT, AHTS, Crew Boats, Accommodation Barges and Spud/Lift barges, and bulk carriers (Panamax and Handymax) for the carriage of rocks.
Ships these days cost millions of dollars to build and then occasionally, like everything else on the planet, they require maintenance too. This ship maintenance and repair happen in dry dock.
What’s Dry docking anyway?
Dry Docking Service is when a ship is taken out of the water completely to access those parts which are usually underwater. The dry dock is a structured area wherein construction, repairs, and maintenance of merchant vehicles are carried out.
SOLAS survey
At Altair, our unique construction arrangement allows water to be filled up in an area so that vessels can be maneuvered in and out of the area, comfortably.
As per Safety of Life at Sea, or SOLAS requirements, all merchant’s vessels require a complete survey of the hull in a dry dock, twice within a five year period, and an intermediate survey within 36 months.
Alphard Maritime Dry Docking Service includes maintenance of:
- Hull
- Propeller
- Rudder
- Other parts of the ship immersed in water
Features of Altair’s dry dock facilities
Altair Marine Services operates out of its own workshop in Dubai Maritime City and is a sister concern of Alphard Group. Dubai Marine City is a 249 hectares Maritime City, strategically located between Port Rashid and Dubai’s Dry-docks World.
- Altair is recognized and accredited with an ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, OHSAS 18001:2007, and approved by all the major Classification Societies.
- Our field of expertise is Dry Docking & Afloat Service, Conversion, Repair of Equipment, Components, and Fabrication across the Middle East.
- Altair team consists of a highly professional and versatile ship repair team with over 1000 years of collective experience in various types of vessels. DMCC Dry Dock- 1 Lifting Capacity : 6000 T Length : 130 m Width : 35 m Dry Berth : 31 DMCC Dry Dock – 2 Lifting Capacity: 3000 T Length : 90 m Width : 25 m Dry Berth : 11
Ship Chartering / Ship Hiring is simply the renting of a ship from a shipowner, which in this case is us. We are Athena, a unit of the Alphard Maritime group, specializing in Dry Cargo Shipping.
A charterer rents or hires from a shipowner by paying the freight.
Offshore construction is the installation of structures and facilities in a marine environment, usually for the production and transmission of electricity, oil, gas, and other resources. Construction and pre-commissioning is typically performed as much as possible inland to optimize the costs and risks of installing large offshore platforms.
Alphard Maritime not only provides marine assets and construction materials but also participates in Offshore Construction projects in the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent.
Offshore construction strategies
Different construction strategies we help implement:
- Full construction for offshore facility done onshore: The installation is towed to the site floating on its own buoyancy after it has been assembled in a land site. Bottom founded structures are lowered to the seabed by ballasting, whilst floating structures are held in position with substantial marine systems.
- Modular Construction: The size of offshore lifts can be reduced by making the construction modular, with each module being constructed onshore, and then lifted using a crane vessel into place onto the platform
- Specialist floating hotel vessels known as ‘flotels’ are used to accommodate the workers during the construction and hookup phases. This is a high-cost activity due to the limited space and access to materials.
