The overall cost of checking the tightness of hatch covers has greatly increased with the increase in the labor costs and increase in the price of the materials. The bigger the size of the ship, more expensive the checking process is. In addition to being expensive, all such procedures are quite time consuming and painstaking.  This is the reason that many of the ships are sailed without conducting any type of checks on them.

The involvement of the latest and high tech technology into this field has resulted in the innovation of ultrasonic testing tools and devices which has improved the overall efficiency of the testing process in terms of cost, time and energy. It has enabled the owner to save lots of money, time and efforts which are required in case of manual checking. Buying a good Hatch Cover Ultrasonic Tightness Testing device is just an investment of one time which proves highly beneficial in the long run. The shipping company is required to buy the device just for once and this will save millions of dollars every time the conduction of test takes place. You can conduct limitless numbers of ultrasonic tests with a good ultrasonic device. It will pay off your investment in just few tests.

Despite the availability of this superb and amazing device and technique, many of the ship owners are still not aware of use of this device for checking the leakages or cracks in their ships. The amount of money which they can save from testing during a year can be spent on buying a new ship and expanding their business. They are still involved in conducting the same old traditional methods of conducting leakage testing instead of checking tightness of hatch with ultrasound. The traditional testing process which they adopt is long, tedious and extremely expensive. It wastes lots of time and energy besides money. The repairs even take longer time than finding the holes and cracks. But still it cannot be claimed with surety that ship is completely leak or crack proof.

The delay, results in missing the deadlines for the delivery of the shipments to the required place. This delay cost a penalty from the clients as well as from the marine authorities which are required to be paid from the pocket of the ship owner. By making use of ultrasonic testing devices the ship owners and managers can easily overcome all such problems with far less cost, spending less time and energy. Due to the rapid and precise detection of the leaks and cracks, the shipping companies can gain a well reputed name and can establish their worth in the market. So it is highly recommended for all the ship owners and people who are running shipping business, to adopt this latest technique and device for checking leaks and cracks in their ship and to save them from tremendous loses in the future.