Cummins Case Studies

Cummins Vessel Reference #602   Brazil is one of the bright spots for shipyards in the current global ecomomy. The Industria Naval do Ceará S. A.– INACE has been making a name for itself as a quality producer since the 1960s. The yard is located in Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil and is a leading builder of steel and aluminum yachts for both the domestic and US markets. The yard is a

Cummins Vessel Reference #600   Tugs have a way of moving around over the years. While the Indonesians bult copious numbers of tugs them selves the government run port operator PT. Pelabuhan Indonesia III is the owner of a fine big Dutch-built tug KT Anoman V. Built in the early 1990s the tug has undergone some modifications and now has three fire monitors in addition to extra bow f

Cummins Vessel Reference #598   Franklin Offshore International Pte Ltd, is a global offshore service provider with headquarter in Singapore and facilities in Azerbaijan, USA, South Korea, Indonesia, UK, Australia, Malaysia and Qatar.. Franklin works closely with: oil majors; rig owners and offshore contractors. The company has grown from its origins in South-East Asia and now has opera

Cummins Vessel Reference #597 AVRA Towage Adds to Fleet With the July delivery of the tug Northwind, the Rotterdam-based firm Avra Towage is now operating a fleet of six tugs with a seventh under construction. Three of the Company’s original five-boat fleet have Cummins main engines, so it was an easy choice to go with Cummins engines for the Northwind. However, where the others have 2400 HP

Cummins Vessel Reference #595   The Italian firm of An.DoFe. Shipping Management s.r.l. was founded in 2007 by Rino Barretta. With 25 years of experience in towage firms, he quickly acquired two ocean going tugs. One of these, the China new build anchor handler Independence was powered by a pair of Cummins QSK60 M engines giving the vessel 4400 HP and a bollard pull in excess of 68

Cummins Vessel Reference #594   A major concern in moving live fish from hatchery to farm or from the farm to a processor by boat has been the danger of transmission of disease or sea lice. The Norwegians have long taken leadership both in the development of farms and in acknowledging such concerns.   With two cargo wells having a total volume of 2750 cubic meters, the re

Cummins Vessel Reference #588 Photos courtesy of Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding: The pilot boat Calcasieu Pass Pilot at speed on calm waters.   In America, deep-V hulls are synonymous with the late C. Raymond Hunt who founded the firm with current president John Deknatel in the 1960s. The Deep-V hull has been a mainstay of the company ever since. According to the company web page,

Cummins Vessel Reference #584 A Cummins QSK60-D(M) powered 1,700 kW emergency generator ready for shipment from the STX facility in Korea. Photo courtesy of STX. Relative to the huge MAN B&W ship engines manufactured at the STX Engine Company factory on the southern coast of South Korea, their emergency generators are small in size. But in the event of a crisis on a deep-sea container, bu

Cummins Vessel Reference #582 The Stril Mariner on seatrials - Cummins photo. The world’s leading offshore shipping companies are increasingly turning to diesel electric propulsion systems as an efficient means of meeting the performance requirements for modern platform supply vessels. Builders in the US, China, Singapore and Norway have all delivered a variety of diesel electric vessels. In

Cummins Vessel Reference #581 The Helen Merrill southbound on her maiden voyage on the Ohio River at Metropolis Illinois a few miles below Paducah, Kentucky with the I-24 highway bridge. Jeff L. Yates photo   Waxler Transportation Co. has taken delivery of the final towboat in a series of five 99 by 35-foot, 3200 HP pushboats. The latest sister, the M/V Helen Merrill, made her m

Cummins Vessel Reference #578 The booster demonstrates its pumping power. Cummins photo People who spend any time around the world’s ports and river estuaries are familiar with the sight of a cutter suction dredge working to maintain adequate depths in the navigation channels. Typically these suction dredges will be attached to the shore by a long umbilical of piping that takes the dredgate t

Cummins Vessel Reference #576 Photo courtesy of B&J Martin, Inc “We are still working on three platforms that were damaged by Katrina in 2005,” says Jimmie Martin of Galliano Louisiana. Martin’s firm, B&J Martin Inc., operates crew and supply boats in the Gulf of Mexico, but their signature work is their site clearance operation. The US Mineral Management Services (MMS) mandated in 1

Cummins Vessel Reference #573 The Elja-V coming alongside on a serene waterway. Photo courtesy of Cummins Holland. Following in a long tradition, the shipyards of the Netherlands continue to produce immaculate inland river vessels. In recent years these have tended to be built on hulls shipped from the cost-effective shipyards of China to be finished to the highest standards in Dutch shipyard

Cummins Vessel Reference #572 The Mermaid Asiana at sea. (Courtesy ASL) The application of diesel electric technology gives a remarkable flexibility to vessels in the larger offshore market. In November Singapore’s ASL Shipyard completed work on the 90 by 22-meter diving support vessel Mermaid Asiana. Destined for service in Mermaid’s extensive Thai fleet, the DP2 classed vessel has redundanc

Cummins Vessel Reference #571 Penguin’s recently delivered Hull #162. Photo courtesy of Penguin. The design and building of a modern aluminum crew boat involves a lot of people and careful planning. At Penguin Marine in Singapore the 17 vessels of their 36-meter crewboat demonstrate their success in working closely with key members of the supplier team. In coordination with Penguin’s expecta

Cummins Vessel Reference #570 Esvagat Capri at ASL Marine, Singapore   If there is a slowing in the marine industries no one told the people at ASL Marine in Singapore. Among other projects the shipyard is building a series of Roto Tugs, a series of large PSVs and a 60-meter dive support vessel.   In November ASL was nearing completion of another in their series of di

Cummins Vessel Reference #568 The Hanseatic, Photo courtesy of Cummins Holland B.V. The Hanseatic League was a highly successful trading alliance among northern European cities from the 13th to the 17th centuries. Some German cities continue to maintain an association under that name. Now the name Hanseatic is proudly emblazoned on the bow of a powerful inland-river boat built in the Netherla

Cummins Vessel Reference #566 Colibri 1, photo courtesy of Strategic Marine In the midst of a significant down turn in the worldwide demand for new crewboats, Strategic Marine is delivering vessels from their Singapore shipyard as well as their new Mexican yard. Recently delivered from the Singapore shipyard the 31 by 7.5–meter crew boat Colibri I. Built for Indonesia’s Baruna Raya Logistics