Parts & equipment
Vessel Core receives RFQs for urgent, rare and multi-maker requirements across vessel systems. Start with the reference you have and the commercial route can be clarified from there. A single enquiry frequently crosses several of the groups below — an overhaul list touches the engine, the turbocharger, the coolers and the seals in one message — and it is handled as one request rather than split at the counter.
Send RFQWe do not present a public warehouse catalogue or claim availability before the RFQ is reviewed. Instead, the supply route begins with the maker, model, part reference, technical evidence, quantity and required port or handover point. The reason is not caution for its own sake. On this equipment the model designation usually narrows a component to a family, and something else — a serial number, a build or arrangement number, a suffix, the builder named on the plate where the design house is a different company — narrows it to the machine in front of you. A catalogue that answers before that is answering a different question.
Main and auxiliary engine parts, turbocharger components, pumps, compressors, separators, filters, heat exchangers and sealing items. Requests here turn on the plate and the position: which engine, which cylinder or bank the component came off, and whether a word like exhaust valve or piston means one item or a complete assembly. Running gear, fuel injection and turbocharging each have their own identity rules, and the guides cover them one system at a time.
Pumps, valves, pipe-system components, filters, gaskets, seals, gauges and process instrumentation. What decides a line in this group is the duty rather than the model name: the same pump casing is built with different impeller materials, seal faces and clearances for sea water, fresh water, fuel or bilge service, and a valve is specified by line size, pressure rating and the medium it passes as much as by its maker.
Gas detection equipment, thermometers, transmitters, sensors, control components and evidence-led replacement requests. Certification is part of the item here rather than paperwork that follows it: a detector approved for a fixed installation is approved with the sensor it was type-tested with, and a request has to name the target gas and the measuring range alongside the instrument before a cell can be identified at all.
Marine electrical, automation and navigation-related equipment references where a correct technical identity can be established. Two components with the same rating are routinely not interchangeable on this side of the vessel — a contactor differs by coil voltage, a voltage regulator by sensing mode, a breaker by the trip unit and the settings the switchboard was coordinated to — so an electrical line is answered from the nameplate and the installation together.
Refrigeration, ventilation, BWTS and environmental-system requirements with maker and system context. These systems are usually assembled from several makers under one system name, so the component plate matters more than the package plate: the compressor, the controller, the valves and the treatment unit each carry their own identity, and a request written against the system rather than the component is the most common reason one of these lines needs a second round.
Deck, steering, mechanical and service-kit requirements supported by references, drawings or photos. Much of this equipment predates any electronic parts record on board, so a photographed drawing position, a page from the original manual or an old order line is often the strongest evidence available — and it is usually enough to begin.
Send what you have
The equipment groups above are covered system by system in the marine spare parts sourcing guides: what identifies a part on each one, and what a supplier needs before a line can be quoted.
