Marine elevators are specially designed elevators to withstand all ship-board conditions such as adverse weather, humidity, rolling, pitching, etc. SOLAS Convention chapter l, part B requires that all equipment fitted onboard ship should be in satisfactory conditions and fit for the service for which it is intended, which also include elevators.

Hence the elevators must not only be part of the ship PMS but maintained well including all the moving gears, automation controls equipment’s, interlock switches, Emergency stop switches, electromagnetic brakes, Gear box & oil, Electro motor, doors, Escape hatch, communication, overload protection device etc and must be serviced by competent technicians.