On July 9, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) officially started the lifting work of the prefabricated balcony of H1509, the second domestically built large cruise ship.
H1509 has a total of 741 prefabricated balconies throughout the ship, involving 11 general sections, and the lifting work for the whole balcony sections is expected to last until January 2025. The lifting work involves 62 prefabricated balconies on decks 6-9 of the U2 general section.
Based on the experience of the first cruise ship, the SWS project team made more thorough planning and preparation for the balcony lifting work. All relevant departments joined hands with the installation general contracting company to optimize the lifting process and protection plan, and overcame the difficulty of delayed arrival of materials. At the same time, SWS carried out pre-assembly and lifting inspections on the first batch of assembled balconies, and carried out safety overhaul on a series of jigs required for lifting, so as to lay a solid foundation for smooth lifting.
SWS redefined the construction strategy of balcony package to achieve the goal of cost control and efficiency improvement through localization of installation projects, and to promote the construction of localized supply chain.
SWS emphasized that the project management team should continue to strengthen cooperation and communication with various departments to promote experience exchange and sharing; pay attention to the experience of the first cruise ship and turn it into new productivity, do a good job of project risk identification; improve quality and efficiency under the premise of ensuring safe operation; further implemented the company’s cost control requirements and continued to promote the localization of the cruise engineering supply chain.
All the work on balcony and glass related will be implemented gradually according to the production plan. Around the key production point, the company continues to deepen the process optimization, improve the work efficiency, with the overall cost control as the goal, to ensure the production and construction.
