Increased demand for rudder conversions

More and more ship owners turn to Becker Marine Systems for rudder conversions of vessels already in service, as the company announced. The easy installation of a new Becker Rudder System is said to improve manoeuvring performance and reduce fuel consumption.

As per Becker Marine Systems’ After Sales Team old rudders are turned into
“good-as-new” by exchanging all tear and wear parts and applying a complete makeover to all rudder parts. Such a job has just been done for the cruise ship "Mein Schiff 2". Recent conversions of old rudders include e.g. "Jaeger Arrow" of Gearbulk Norway. The cargo vessel was built in 2001 with a semi-spade Schilling® Mariner Rudder. Within three weeks the Becker After Sales Team cut out the tarnished semi-spade rudder and replaced it with a new full-spade Schilling® Monovec Rudder. The new rudder was fit to the existing steering gear. Also, at the 25 year old cruise vessel "Thomson Dream" the semi-spade rudders were exchanged to a new Becker TLFKSR Twisted Leading
Edge Flap Rudder System. The new rudders enable the captain to perform many harbour operations tug-free, as Becker Marine Systems states.