Schat-Harding starts Shanghai service station

Lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has established a new after sales and service headquarters in Shanghai. The new service base will provide annual and five yearly SOLAS inspections and tests, refurbishment, repairs and genuine OEM spares for lifeboats, davits, hooks and winches on ships calling at Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwanese ports.

The Shanghai engineers are backed by a team of fully trained and authorised technicians at Schat-Harding?s Qingdao plant and the company is also expecting to open up smaller service offices in both North and South China, to improve speed of response in those areas. Schat-Harding is also establishing a training school for service engineers in Qingdao, to supplement its school in Norway and provide training for both its own engineers and those of its service partners.

To date the Shanghai team has serviced 60 vessels. This includes a riding crew sailing on the cruiseship Crystal Symphony from Hong Kong to Shanghai (via Taiwan & Japan) for the annual inspection of boats, davits and winches.