The maintenance of tanks and cargo holds of tankers,
bulk carriers and container ships is still a difficult and
labour-intensive task. Up to 4.000 square metres of walls,
ceilings and floors in each tank or hold have to be cleaned,
decoated and recoated manually. Therefore expensive
scaffoldings or cherry pickers have to be built or brought in
the tanks or holds, which leads to a bunch of disadvantages:

	the setup and dismantle procedures take a large amount of valuable lay days and workforce
	the scaffolding material is expensive and has to be cleaned in an extensive way
	bad working conditions due to insufficient lighting, exhaust gases etc.
	limited working areas due to the structure of scaffolding

To deal with the above mentioned disadvantages HTC-Systems
has developed the Internal Tank Platform ITP-4