Cummins Case Studies
We’re in it for the long haul. We build lasting partnerships that lead to smarter innovations for our customers. These customer stories demonstrate our commitment and success in providing customers like you with improved power solutions through world-class innovation in a number of industries.
Cummins Vessel Reference #832 After 60,000 hours of service, crab fisherman Robert Ross decided that his 19-liter Cummins 1150M had earned a rest. The 500 HP engine had been a perfect match for his 72 by 26-foot aluminum boat so he ordered up a new Cummins KTA19-M3 at 500 HP, continuous duty, from his local supplier Cummins Sales and Service in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in easte
Cummins Vessel Reference #830 The Island of Zanzibar and others in the group are located just off the coast of Tanzania and have, for thousands of years, been a destination for adventure, beauty and trade. The earliest Arab traders brought the skills of dhow building and, along with this, a great appreciation of quality boats. While dhows are still built in Zanzibar, the owners of Azam Mar
Cummins Vessel Reference #829 The Assateague along side at the builder, Conrad Industries in Orange, Texas. Her JAK 700 coupler is visible forward. Vane Brothers Company has undergone spectacular growth over the past three decades. The firm continues to expand its fleet with new construction. This February the marine transportation company took delivery of the first of three n
Cummins Vessel Reference #590 In April Bollinger Shipyard delivered the first of their 234-foot class of Cummins-powered Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) to their sister company, Bee Mar Inc. The shipyard started building this series of vessels in 2008 and delivered the first in the series to the newly formed Bee Mar LLC in June of 2009. A Bee Mar press release at the time sai
Cummins Vessel Reference #589 On many of Europe’s inland waterways, the limit to cargo capacity is not so much about horsepower but it is the limit imposed on the vessel by the size of the locks that it has to transit. With the largest vessels, along with their additional barges, designed to maximize available space in the locks it is necessary to get the unit into the lock and stopped up w
Cummins Vessel Reference #827 US Navy Work Boat Medium. The US Navy has some spectacular vessels from submarines to high speed RIBs. They also have dedicated ports and support facilities worldwide. A practical reality of all of this is that the Navy requires efficient and handy boats to support the warhorses. To meet this requirement John Myers of the naval architect firm Hocke
Anglo American mines everything from iron ore to copper, platinum and diamonds across three continents. The one thing they share is a total commitment to using Cummins engines in virtually all their equipment from haul trucks to electrical generators. In this video featuring their Brazilian site, Cummins and local distributor DCML match Anglo American’s commitment with unparalleled support, gen
Customer testimonial: Independence Contract Drilling decided to make a strategic shift, leveraging external expertise and economies of scale available from component manufacturers in the design and construction of their rigs. This included outsourcing both the drilling power module and skidded assemblies, with the decision based on a potential partner’s ability to work with ICD from design through
Cummins Vessel Reference #750 A skilled crane operator fits the engine between the sidewall of the dry dock and the hull. When a tightly scheduled repower, for the Kodiak-based trawler Sea Mac in early December, took a very bad turn Mike Fourtner used his 25 years of fishing experience and leadership to pull together a team at Cummins Northwest to solve the problem. For the past year, Mike Fo
Cummins Vessel Reference #826 The Daisy Mae ready for work. “The Daisy Mae is the closest you can get to Z-drive maneuverability, without the cost of Z-drive,” maintains her builder Joseph Rodriguez of Rodriguez Ship Building Inc. in Bayou LaBatre, Alabama. Rodriguez has designed and built a lot of tugs over the years and doesn’t make this claim lightly. Further more he backs it up with his
Cummins Vessel Reference #825 Early in 2017 a shipyard in Spain delivered two state-of-the-art water-jet catamaran crew boats. Each boat had 16,000 HP derived from four of the Cummins Engine company’s new QSK95 marine diesel. Following several years in development, the engine has proven itself in this high-speed application. The QSK95 is certified to IMO Tier 11 emission standards
Cummins Vessel Reference #823 A pair of the Colnago boats at speed. Croatian tourism has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years. The great bulk of this is along the Adriatic coast where, as it has for centuries, life revolves around the sea. Tourists rent sail boats, take coastal cruises or travel to the many island that sit in the crystal Adriatic waters along the length of
Cummins Vessel Reference #824 Driving south on the coastal highway from the ancient city of Split in Croatia in late October, one is amazed to come on a forest of masts. These are not your usual sailboat masts lined in orderly rows in a marina, they are masts of all shapes and they are supported by a range of what at first appear to be spectacularly well maintained mega-yachts. A few
Cummins Vessel Reference #822 Her green hull siting solidly in the shallows near shore the fishing vessel Tru?ng Sa slowly begins to right herself with the raising tide. As an off-shore fishing vessel, and as her name attests, she is built for deeper waters than this. Tru?ng Sa is the name of the group islands off the coast of Vietnam whose fishing grounds are claimed by foreign nations.
Cummins Vessel Reference #816 The Azimuthing Stern Drive (ASD) format has become the norm for a great many tugs working in vessel assist around the world’s ports. They now far outnumber the full tractor tugs with the azimuthing drives set forward under the house as do they the cycloidal drive tugs. Often, the ASD tugs are dedicated ship-handling units with a single hawser winch forward. However
When Rio Tinto looked to improve life-to-overhaul of the Cummins QSK60 engine powering its Komatsu WA1200-6 loaders, oil filtration efficiency emerged as the key. Rio Tinto has nine 220-tonne, 1892 hp WA1200-6 loaders operating in its vast iron ore operations in the Pilbara, Western Australia, where production reached 330 million tonnes from 16 mines in 2017. A world-first WA1200-6 is workin
Cummins Vessel Reference #819 This is HTV 1404 loaded with 1520 tons of coal on the Saigon River, power is a Cummins KTA19 600 HP @ 1800 RPM. The extensive network of rivers and channels that make up the waterways of the area around Ho Chi Minh City, gain an added complexity with the Saigon River that runs parallel to the Mekong Delta. Cummins’ Engineer and Technical Sales Bui Trong Die
Cummins Vessel Reference #817 SEACOR PANTHER: An impressive sight on any ocean. When there is a better idea in crew boat design, it is most likely to be Louisiana-based SEACOR that pioneers it. That has been the case with catamaran boats, with SEACOR taking delivery of their first dual-hulled fast-supply boat, the Seacor Cheetah in 2008 and again when they had the Seacor Lynx