The vessel was operating offshore Vietnam, when the 30 ton aux. winch developed a problem. A Liebherr Specialist Engineer from ALATAS Singapore was flown in to assess the problem. As it turned out, the needle bearings between rope drum and supporting housing hat disintegrated, causing major damage on the running surfaces of the rope drum and the end housing.

The winch is a special, one-off Zollern winch, type ZHP 4.31, with a length of 4.4.meter and a weight of 6 ton. Arrangements where made to remove the rope winch in Vung Tau and ship it to ALATAS Singapore, which is a Zollern approved winch and gearbox repair station. Tailored repair drawings where made up and the rope drum was repaired via machining down the wasted needle bearing raceways and shrink-fitting a matching repair ring.

The repaired rope winch then was shipped back to the vessel and installed by ALATAS Engineers. Limit switch adjustments, function testing and a proof load test was carried out to verify the successful winch repair.