{"id":314164,"date":"2025-11-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/vard-electro-signs-agreement-to-provide-support-to-aker-qrill\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:00:42","slug":"vard-electro-signs-agreement-to-provide-support-to-aker-qrill","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/vard-electro-signs-agreement-to-provide-support-to-aker-qrill\/","title":{"rendered":"Vard Electro signs agreement to provide support to Aker QRILL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Vard Electro<\/strong>, a ship electrical and automation systems company, <strong>has signed a 3-year service contract<\/strong> with Aker QRILL Company, a krill fishing company, to ensure that its vessels, which operate in extreme conditions in the Antarctic, are always operational with minimum downtime. The contract covers full technical support for <strong>six vessels in its fleet<\/strong>, four krill fishing vessels and two cargo vessels. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/new-saputi-ii-vessel-sets-sail-to-dominate-arctic-waters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cargo vessels<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What type of contract is it?<\/h2>\n\n<p>Both companies signed a <strong>Service Level Agreement (SLA)<\/strong>, which defines in a very clear and measurable way the services that the supplier, in this case Vard Electro, must deliver to its customer, i.e. Aker. It is not just a sale of spare parts, it is a <strong>guarantee of performance<\/strong> and states things like: <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Response times for support.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spare parts availability.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintenance hours included.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Performance levels to be met.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What exactly does the agreement include?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>The agreement ensures that, <strong>no matter where they are in the world<\/strong>, they will have quick access to critical spare parts, preventing the vessel from spending weeks idle for lack of a part. Vard Electro will also carry out <strong>scheduled overhauls and maintenance every year<\/strong> to prevent <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/academia.inspenet.com\/blog\/inspeccion-de-calidad-y-fallas-criticas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prevent failures<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n<p>Vard technicians will provide remote support and <strong>training to the<\/strong> ships&#8217; <strong>crews<\/strong>, so that the sailors can make essential repairs themselves during their long missions, without having to return to port. The agreement also ensures that Aker&#8217;s flagship, <strong>the Antarctic Endurance<\/strong>, which operates year-round in the Southern Ocean in extreme conditions of cold, ice and isolation, receives specialized care and continuous technical monitoring. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why is this agreement important?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>This agreement is specifically designed to <strong>minimize unplanned downtime<\/strong> for Aker QRILL Company and allow them to plan their fishing campaigns with the confidence that their vessels will be operational.<\/p>\n\n<p>As Vard Electro&#8217;s vice president says, it&#8217;s not just a transaction, it&#8217;s a <strong>collaborative relationship<\/strong>. Vard becomes a technology partner of Aker, not just a vendor. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vard.com\/articles\/vard-electro-signs-service-level-agreement-with-aker-qrill-company\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.vard.com\/articles\/vard-electro-signs-service-level-agreement-with-aker-qrill-company\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vard Electro<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vard Electro will provide full technical support to six vessels to ensure their continued operation under extreme conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10019,"featured_media":313785,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13048],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-314164","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-maritime"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/314164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/314164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=314164"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=314164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}