Cummins Case Studies

Cummins Vessel Reference #672 The Patriot: design by Crescere, built by Giddings for Mike Pettis.   “Don’t make me out to be anything special,” cautioned Mike Pettis over the phone, “I’m just a working man.”   The challenges of winter waters off the west coast of Oregon, not to mention the care required to stay in the fishing business, are well known. So it will be ha

Cummins Vessel Reference #670 The US and global offshore industry are in the habit of watching what SEACOR Marine is building as this will invariably predict future goals for the industry. Just as all the company’s crewboats carry the McCall name, they also carry the imprints of Joe McCall’s constant search for excellence and innovation. Son of the McCall Boat founder, Joe McCall is today the P

Cummins Vessel Reference #664 36-meter patrol boat based on Marsun crew boat   At a time when the nations of the world are struggling to provide marine security in an era of fiscal responsibility, Thailand’s Marsun Company Ltd. has come up with an industrial strength response. The shipyard’s 36-meter crew boat design is a well-proven vessel that typically spends 30 days at sea a

Cummins Vessel Reference #666 Incat-Crowther's Fast Supply Vessel in profile.   We have grown accustom to big projects in the offshore oil industry, but Brazilian vessel owners keep raising the bar. The most recent “biggest” announcement tells of the order of 12 Fast Supply Vessels (FSV) for work with Petrobras, Brazil’s semi-public multinational energy corporation with headquar

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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

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: ship

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cummins Vessel Reference #645 Ready for work.   The marine works and dredging company LMD recently took delivery of a general cargo and heavy lift vessel from the prolific and versatile Italian shipyard Vittoria di Adria. At 60 meters in length with a 16-meter beam and a weight of 2300 gross tons the Alfredo is a hefty vessel designed for maximum productivity. As a bulk cargo ve