Cummins Vessel Reference #786 Still in the river, the new boat looks anxious to get out to sea to show her stuff. There is something about Italian products, from consumer goods to industrial objects, that carries a stylistic flair. This is well represented in the cruise ships of the Fincantieri Shipyard, such as the 2015-delivered Britannia. More recently this flair for design
May 17, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference #775 The Alya McCall on sea trials and ready to cross the Atlantic and The Alya McCall is likely the biggest, the most powerful and the fastest single-hulled, combination supply and crew boat to be launched to date. Some of the impressive numbers: 206 by 33 feet, 100 passengers, five 2680 HP Cummins engines, five Hamilton jets, 38 knot speeds. Mike Aufdermauer, Marine S
April 05, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference #780 When the Port of Toronto’s 45-year-old single screw tug, William Rest, got some hull damage while breaking ice, the incident lent new impetus to plans for a new boat. Like the original, the new boat would do a variety of tasks from tending to dredging, and icebreaking as well as assisting the Toronto Police and Toronto Fire Service marine units. Ports Toronto
March 23, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference #793 The Lady Loren at work. (LA Carriers photo) Russell Plaisance, president of Louisiana Carriers, built the pusher-tug Lady Loren at Dickie Adam’s Lockport Fabrication in 2008. At the launch, he explained that the boat was the result of five years of planning and a lifetime of experience in the maritime world of the Gulf of Mexico. With owner Russell P. Plaisance
March 22, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference #799 Rigid hulled inflatable boats (RIBs) have come a long way since their initial development in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s. Long noted for their stability and safety in turbulent seas, they have found applications in rescue work and military settings. Willard Marine, Inc. of Anaheim, California has a long history of conventional hulls and RI
March 10, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference #782 The Dianna Lynn fresh from the Rodriguez yard and ready for work with Mid-River Terminal, LLC of Osceola, Arkansas. Over the years Rodriguez triple-screw shallow-draft towboats have won a following in the shallow waters of the Mississippi River estuary. Many of these boats are the distinctive aft-cabin Lugger-type of vessel. Recently Mid-River Terminal of Osceola,
March 08, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference #778b Seaspan Venture, built 2001 Jinlng Shipyard China but finished at Vancouver Shipyards in North Vancouver. “We don’t usually remove the heads at mid-life on the Cummins engines,” Randy Beckler, Engineering Superintendent for Seaspan Towing explained in reference to the 2003 launched Seaspan Venture’s third like-for-like repower. Seaspan Venture, towing a chip
February 17, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference#800 John Niemann machinist/welder with the recently installed Cummins QSL9 engines. “If it works well, then why change it?” might have been the idea of the owner of a new Yukon River salmon tender building at WCT Marine’s shipyard at Tongue Point on the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon. Owner R. Bodey had Tullio Celano draw up a set of plans from a v
February 01, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference #791 The Grifon-8 ready for work. Russia’s Pella Shipyard advertises a range of five ASD tugs. Their model 90600 has proven popular with satisfied customers returning for sister ships. Currently the yards has one of these handy-sized 25.4 by 8.8-meter tugs under construction for the Grifon Company. The profile and GA of a Pella docking tug. With a long list of design
January 13, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference 784 In mid-April of 2016, the Indian Navy’s grab hopper dredger, Dredger-1 was preparing to depart its birth shipyard following a comprehensive one-year warrantee review. Tebma Shipyards Ltd., Senior Vice President M. Balasubramaniam explained that the 44.15 by 12.2-meter vessel was designed to meet precise deepening requirements around docks and port inst
January 13, 2016
Cummins Hotips #777 At village of Hòa Lôe, district of Huyên Hâu Lôc, Province of Than Hôa ready for launch. In keeping with their reputation as a nation that can overcome all obstacles, Vietnam is rebuilding its aging fishing fleet. With a government program of soft loans, designated Decree 67/ND-CP, fishermen are building boats along 28 coastal provinces from the north to the
January 05, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference #783 R/V Meen Shandhani The Sumber Samudra Sdn. Bhd. of Perak, Malaysia recently delivered a 37.8-meter fisheries research and survey vessel. Built for the Bangladesh Department of Fisheries, the R/V Meen Shandhani completed official sea trials in June 2015. Additional trials for the fishing gear were carried out in late 2015. With all trials complete, the vessel crews
January 04, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference #801 Vanquish: 14,95 X 4.5-meter. There was a time when high-quality inboard-powered launches served to take people out to anchored yachts. Then a range of luxury sport boats was built for day cruises. Now, the art and design of day boats has been upped by a factor of ten. Vanquish: power 2 X Cummins QSC8.3 600 MHP each &nb
January 01, 2016
Cummins Vessel Reference #774 A pair of Rolls Royce drives on the new Argentine tug Brutus. Built to an Argentine design in an Argentine yard, a new 28.8 by 10-meter azimuthing stern drive tug will soon be at work handling ships in her home country. To be named Brutus, the vessel was designed by Ing. Emilio Noël and built by the Astillero
November 18, 2015
Cummins Vessel Reference #762 The Cummins Swissco Garnet powered by a pair of Cummins KTA50-M2 mains producing a total of 3200 HP. From the four-story office tower, housing 100 technical engineers and administration staff, to the 65,000-square-meter yard with extensive fabrication and machine shops and a huge dry dock, the Xin Yue Feng Shipyard has been buil
October 08, 2015
Cummins Vessel Reference #773 A new era on the Parana River. From instant Internet access to efficient logistics, the ability to draw on the best global concepts and products to build a vessel has never been greater. The revolutionary new pusher tug launched in Paraguay this past September demonstrates this. The Astillero Tsuneishi Paraguay SA, a subsidiary of the Japanese Tsun
October 07, 2015
Cummins Vessel Reference #774 Rex Dobson breaking the traditional bottle over his name sake. Joe Gregory, owner of New Generation Shipbuilding of Houma, Louisiana, reports that his firm’s latest delivery will join the La Porte Texas-based Martin Marine fleet of 29 inland push boats and 54 inland marine tank barges. Martin also operates four offshore tug/barge units. &n
August 12, 2015
Cummins Vessel Reference #772 The Cagivou making way. In recent decades there have been great advances in design of crewboats and offshore supply vessels to meet the needs of the petroleum industry. Recently a number of nations have turned to these designs as inspiration for naval craft. Now the Government Shipping Services of the Fiji Islands have turned to a designer and a bu
July 23, 2015