Cummins Vessel Reference #667 The M/T Jewel Faith nearing completion. Earlier this year, Swordfish Marine of the Philippines, launched a new coastal tanker the M/T Jewel Faith. The new vessel is 69 meters in length with a 12.8-meter beam and a 2.8-meter draft. Looking forward over the main deck of the tanker. To assure reliable propulsion on a vessel carrying petroleum products the owner

July 10, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #665 One of two Cummins QSK38 M Tier 2 engines being lowered into Wilmington Tug's Lindsey. When Gladding-Hearn Shipyard built the Z-drive tug Lindsey in 1989 they put in a pair of 2-stroke Detroit 16V149TI diesels each rated for 1300 HP. They were good engines in their day but times have changed. US EPA regulations and the public expect much cleaner burning engines.

June 15, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #662 A rendering of the six new line handling vessels.   Located in Salvador, Brazil, the naval architect firm Parahyba Campos design firm won a contract to supply design and support for six 32 by 9.6-meter line handling boats. The design firm’s director, Marcos de Parahyva Campos, has extensive experience in both Brazil and Japan where he added to his e

May 16, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #660 The Siem-Carajas on sea trails. The second Guido Perla & Associates designed fast supply vessel has been delivered from Brazil’s Inace Shipyard. Named Siem Carajás, the 50-meter (164-foot) by 10-meter aluminum vessel features a large forward cargo shelter. There is also a large 28.5 by 7.8-meter open after deck. Liquid capacities include: ships fuel 22 m3, ca

May 10, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #661 The Aramara, with the skilled build-crew, ready for launch.   Founded in 1980, Servicios Navales e Industrales S.A. de C.V. (SENI) continues to grow in both repair work and new construction at the yard in Mazatlan, Mexico. As more nations look to have vessels trading between their own ports built in national yards, SENI is in a position to meet the

May 09, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #568 Peter and Ray Viguerie: building together. “I started in the shipyard 50 years ago with pick on the end of a broom stick cleaning up,” recalls Raymond Viguerie, before adding, “Later the old man taught me how to do fitting.” These days, Raymond is still at his Intracoastal Iron Works yard full time, but his son Peter is doing a lot of the day-to-day management.

March 14, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #659 The PSV Betty Pfankuch at the Conrad Deepwater yard in Amelia Louisiana.   The quality and functionality of a working vessel is only proven over time. When one of Aries Marine’s green-design diesel-electric platform supply vessel returned to the US from an nine-month charter in Mexico I was privileged to have a walk through with Chief Engineer Darre

March 14, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #657 The US Army Corps of Engineers new shallow draft dredge. (Conrad Industries Photo) Time and tide are rightly noted as inevitable and with them comes silting. The US Army Corps of Engineer will soon take delivery of a shallow draft dredge that, while stopping neither time nor tide, will do much to alleviate the silting. Building at Conrad Industry’s Morgan City s

March 13, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #655 Kerry Neuville with the RORCO crew boat at his New Iberia yard. (Haig-Brown photo)   Work has been slow in a lot of Louisiana shipyards in the past couple of years. With orders for big crew boats in short supply, Neuville Boat Works of New Iberia, has been meeting steady orders for their 47-foot crew boats. The yard has been building this design, wit

March 13, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #656 The George C leaving the Rodriguez yard in Alabama. (photo courtesy of Rodriguez Boat Builders) The marine press has been giving extensive coverage to the oil industry’s ongoing quest for off-shore resources. But the near shore wells along the Gulf of Mexico coast continue to make a significant contribution to US oil production. George Clement at the controls

March 06, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #652 IHC Beaver 7522 discharges via a 750 mm diameter pipeline and works to depths of 22 meters.This 66.3 by 14-meter dredge, the Imai Delima, was delivered to Inai Kiara Sdn Bhd in 2008.   To call IHC Merwede a global manufacturer of dredges would be an understatement. With decades of research and development behind them the Netherlands-based firm is a

January 12, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #654   The Argentine shipyard Astillero Naval Federico Contessi Y Cia SA has been busy with fishing boat orders. In March they launched another of their fine new trawlers. Amid much fan fare, fire works and confetti the B/P Nono Pascual slid down the ways. On hitting the water, her 600 HP Cummins KTA19 M3 was started and the boat made a celebratory lap of th

January 03, 2012

Cummins Vessel Reference #651 Capt. Li, originally from Guangdong Province, ready to sail from Shandong. On Christmas Day 2011, Capt. Li Jin Chao, and three other Chinese skippers will be well along in a 23-day voyage of over 5000 miles from Shandong Province in China to Fiji. Their four vessels were delivered from the Hunghai Shipbuilding Company Ltd. the name of which translates as Yellow S

December 13, 2011

Cummins Vessel Reference #650 Profile view of new China Fisheries vessel. courtesy of Rushan Shipyard   A recently launched patrol vessel, Zhong Guo Yu Zheng, for the Chinese Fisheries Department employs the proven technology of two engines turning into a gear with a single output to a single propeller. The Fisheries Administration Ship is 57.33-meters overall with a 8.2-meter b

December 07, 2011

Cummins Vessel Reference #649 Ready to go to work for Higman.   The Ford F-150 pick-up truck is said to be the best selling vehicle in America. It seems likely that Hope Services’ Cummins-powered push boat could well be the best selling vessel of its class in America. On November 12, 2011 the Dulac, Louisiana shipyard delivered Hull Number 144. Of these hulls, all but three have

November 15, 2011

Cummins Vessel Reference #648 Super Jet 19 at speed. With over 230 million people living on about 13 thousand islands, Indonesia requires a lot of ferries. Shipyards such as PT. Bintan Marina Shipyard are meeting this demand for fast, safe and modern ferries. The yards recently designed, built and delivered the fast ferry, MV Super Jet 19, to the associated PT. Pelayaran Nasional Bahtera Best

November 10, 2011

Cummins Vessel Reference #647 One of the first QSK95 engines with another in the test bed. “This is the most powerful high speed diesel in the world,” was the recurring statement at the unveiling of the new Cummins QSK95 engine in Seymour Indiana on the First of November. Development of the new engine has been a carefully guarded secret so that the assembled guest were duly impressed when the

November 08, 2011