Replacement of Air Circuit Breakers on Hellenic Navy vessels
Overview
Several Hellenic Navy vessels, built prior to the year 2000, were experiencing issues with their electrical panels.
Specifically, the generator air circuit breakers (ACBs) manufactured by SIEMENS, with which the vessels were originally equipped, are now out of production and no longer supported with spare parts.
The situation was being managed through frequent improvised and unreliable repairs.
The Hellenic Navy launched a series of tenders for their replacement, but these efforts yielded no results.
Approach
C&A STAVROS KASSIDIARIS S.A., certified by the Hellenic Ministry of National Defence and NATO for Defence Industry Projects, provided a solution to the impasse by undertaking the supply, installation, wiring, and full commissioning of new air circuit breakers of equivalent capacity to the original ones. The new breakers were manufactured by HYUNDAI ELECTRIC, which the company exclusively represents in Greece.
The work was completed within the scheduled timeframe and without affecting the operational readiness of the vessels.
Similar replacement projects, involving the substitution of outdated circuit breakers with breakers from HYUNDAI ELECTRIC, have also been carried out for other brands of electrical equipment whose products are no longer supported or have excessively long delivery times. In addition to the Hellenic Navy, such installations have also been successfully implemented on vessels in the deep-sea shipping sector.
The C&A Group holds the largest inventory of HYUNDAI ELECTRIC air circuit breakers in Europe and offers full technical support 24/7.
