"Antipiros-Una" services equipment on board "Kotor"

The service team of the company "Antipiros-Una" from Tivat will travel these days to the merchant ship "Kotor" of the company "Crnogorska plovidba" in order to carry out a regular inspection and service of the rescue equipment, during the ship's voyage from the port in Algeria to Constanta in Romania.

It is the first time that the Kotor shipowner hires a domestic company that has all the certificates for that activity for the services of servicing rescue equipment on one of its vessels.

"The trust shown to us by "Crnogorska plovidba" means a lot to us because it proves that our domestic maritime industry is slowly networking and that we can provide each other with quality services and represent reliable partners," said the first man of "Antipiros-Una" Miško on that occasion. Lucic.

That company, by the way, has mostly concentrated on life rafts that are not subject to SOLAS rules and that are used on smaller ships in coastal navigation.

Since it started operating in March last year in Tivat, this company on our market has enabled all owners of fishing and excursion boats, as well as yachts, to carry out servicing of ship's rescue equipment in Montenegro, instead of sending it to abroad.

There is so much work that the number of employed repairmen has been doubled, and good cooperation has been established with the Maritime Safety Administration of Montenegro, which controls and certifies the technical correctness of vessels under the Montenegrin flag, including their rescue equipment.

In the workshop in Tivat, eight automatic self-inflating life rafts are currently being serviced from various ships, primarily from yachts that have their home port in Porto Montenegro.

According to Lučić, the job of inspecting and servicing this equipment is extremely delicate because human lives depend on its correctness and every raft, in case of need, must be opened instantly with just one pull of the rope that activates it.

"Therefore, everything that our four authorized and licensed repairmen do, is done according to the strict procedures of the equipment manufacturers for whose articles we are authorized, primarily the Italian "Arimar". By law, rafts must be periodically opened, inspected and serviced. On that occasion, all the supplies contained in the raft are inspected and, if necessary, renewed - water, food, medicines, first aid kits, raft repair kits and signaling equipment," explained Lučić, adding that this has already been done in Tivat for a year, instead of the rafts are sent to Split or Rijeka for service, as was the case for years.

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