Cummins Vessel Reference #593 Since 1980, PT Dumas Tanjung Perak Shipyard in East Java has build dozens of vessels for various departments of the Indonesian Government. Their most recent delivery, the Hiu Macan Turul 401, was designed and built for the Department Kelautan Dan Perkanan. The vessel’s 42.5 length and seven-meter beam provides accommodation for up to 18 p
June 24, 2010
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
June 23, 2010
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
June 16, 2010
Cummins Vessel Reference #591 If you put one of the world’s leading designers of escort tugs together with a premier aluminum boat builder you will get an exceptional aluminum escort tug. This is a distinctly different vessel from the big Robert Allan Ltd. designed docking and escort tugs that fill the pages of marine publications worldwide. The BRAtt project evolved from the succ
May 12, 2010
Cummins Vessel Reference #586 Angico pushing on the Amazon. Cummins photo Transdorada Transportes LTDA, a towboat operator on Brazil’s Amazon River, has recently taken delivery of a number of Cummins-powered push boats. These include two 19.5-meter boats with twin Cummins KTA19-M3 engines each delivering 600 HP and a single 19.5-meter pushboat with a single KTA19-M3 engine. All three vessels
April 23, 2010
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,
April 21, 2010
Cummins Vessel Reference #585 After treatment of emissions on the M/S Anda. Engine manufacturers and their engineer teams have put a great deal of thought and money into reducing emissions in recent years. As limitations, particularly in the US and Europe became more stringent, the engineers tuned the engine design with everything from electronic injectors to redesigned combustion chambers.
March 17, 2010
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
March 17, 2010
Cummins Vessel Reference #583 The docking tug Haeyang No.7 entering the harbour at Dasan Port near Seosan City Korea. Haig-Brown photo courtesy of Cummins. While many ports are experimenting with a range of designs for their docking assist tugs, three ports on Korea’s rugged west coast choose to stay with a well-proven design. Near Seosan City the ports of Daesan, Taean and Boryeong are set o
February 17, 2010
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
February 10, 2010
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
February 08, 2010
Cummins Vessel Reference #580 Peruvian tug on seatrials in China. Cummins photo A 26.5-meter Z-drive tug has recently been delivered from the Jiangsu Wuxi Shipyard Co., Ltd. in China to a Peruvian owner Trabajos Maritimos S.A. The shipyard is located inland from Shanghai on Lake Thai near the town of Wuxi and the Jinghang Grand Canal. Trabajos Maritimos is a comprehensive marine organization of
January 13, 2010
Cummins Vessel Refererence #579 Sybil Graham Setting Compass. Joe Wiseman photo courtesy of C&G Looking back at the Cummins Hotips#84 from 1999 (www.haig-brown.com “Hotips”) one can see how this class of vessels has evolved over the past decade. The crew boats were already getting larger with vessels up to 183×35 feet being the largest built for the Gulf of Mexico at that time. The larger
January 06, 2010
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
January 05, 2010
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
December 30, 2009
Cummins Vessel Reference #577 The Backacter 1100 In the past dipper dredges have often been cobbled together with machinery designed to work in a terrestrial environment. When working in a marine environment their useful life is severely limited by the saltwater environs. Now the Netherlands’s Yard De Donge have designed and built a powerful machine perfectly suited to the marine environment.
December 16, 2009
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
November 25, 2009
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
November 18, 2009