The underwater maintenance services provided by UCS enhances your vessel performance through routine cleaning and maintenance by removing marine fouling while the vessel is waterborne, thus restoring main engine performance maximising the economy of your vessel's operation. UCS also offers new eco-friendly cleaning solutions.
Instead of arranging last minute maintenance with unfamiliar companies, UCS provides reliable services with outstanding results. We have demonstrated savings in fuel consumption and the optimization of your vessel performance by maintaining smooth underwater hull and propeller surfaces using our fuel maintenance and management program. This program is available for entire fleets.
Hull Cleaning
Delays in cleaning can lead to a significant amount of hard fouling. This may not only the effect consumption, speed and power of your vessel, but will result in damage to the paint system.
UCS provides hull cleaning services for vessels with special paint and coating systems, including silicone coatings. This includes the new revolutionary UCS ECO Crawler Hull Cleaner which captures all debris in a filter waste system, the UCS DUTS (Direct Underwater Treatment System).
The hull cleaning services provided by UCS remove marine fouling from the entire underwater hull surface, including flat bottom and vertical sides, with the use of a hydraulic multi brush system or water jet. The cleaning can be performed in hours.
Propeller Polishing
A smooth and properly polished propeller reduces fuel consumption and offers significant savings.
UCS is able to provide a high standard diamond disc polishing for an ‘A’ polishing grade on the Rubert Gauge. UCS offers the new ECO Flexi Polishing Solution for ship propellers as well, where debris is captured in a filter system.
Propeller and Seal Cleaning
High propeller efficiency decreases vessel fuel consumption.
UCS provides a high standard cleaning solution by cleaning the propeller with flexible hydraulic brushes at high revolution to remove fouling. UCS also offers the ECO Propeller Cleaning Solution, which captures all debris in a filter system.
Water Intake Grids and Thruster Cleaning
Any cleaning where only specific sections of a vessel’s underwater appendage and propulsion systems are cleaned such as the rudder, bilge keels, water intake grids and thrusters.
