Ship's Equipment Centre Bremen (SEC) is considered to be today's worldwide leading manufacturer of container lashing equipment.

The basis of this leading position is the perfect combination of in house design and engineering facilities. This combined with unique know how of manufacturing and services has made Ship's Equipment Centre Bremen as a first class partner for yards and owners.

An enthusiastic team of high skilled experts is operating out of the main office located in Bremen, Germany. A city which provides an infrastructure where the cargo securing technology has quite a history.

As essential support towards an all around service is provided by the international network of agencies and logistics partners. Ship's Equipment Centre Bremen products are being distributed through world wide stocks kept at the main centres of international shipping activities. This network is essential to make sure that only exclusive Ship's Equipment Centre products are being supplied. Whether supplied out of New York, Long Beach, Singapore, Shanghai or Europe, each fitting is an original Ship's Equipment Centre item.

Having the vessels equipped by Ship's Equipment Centre Bremen means a full range of high quality gear according to International Maritime Organization (IMO) and latest classification rules.

Products

The range of products is to be separated into hardware and services.
The fittings (hardware) as such being separated into 2 groups, namely fixed and loose gear.

Fixed fittings:

- Deck and hatch cover foundations
- Lashing points
- In hold installations
- Tank top fittings

Loose fittings:

- Twistlocks, manual and automatic
- Midlocks and stackers
- Lashings
- Supports
- RoRo and timber equipment

This is just to mention a few. The company has over 1500 approved different designs in production.

Among a variety of makers and traders in this segment Ship's Equipment Centre Bremen is superior with regard to the engineering facilities which are world wide leading and unique in its kind. Whether it regards the integral calculation of entire lashing bridge designs for 7000 TEU giants by FEM-calculation methods or the design of such constructions using latest 3-dimensional CAD systems, Ship's Equipment Centre Bremen is being known as front runner in this business. Ship's Equipment Centre Bremen has set certain trends in order to fulfil system integration demands which became essential for large container ship projects.

The complex interaction of the main components such as hatch covers, lashing bridges, deck supports and cargo requires an integral approach which was not known this way before. This is the most significant example for Ship's Equipment Centre's technical expertise and its reputation as system integrator for such applications. When receiving an order for the delivery of fixed fittings we will always prepare offset drawings showing the arrangement of foundations, lashing plates etc. for all positions on board. In these drawings the foundations and lashing plates are measured in relation to each other but not in relation to the hull structure.