Cummins Marine Case Studies
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
Cummins Vessel Reference #645 The Italian marine operator Bambini, based at the Port of Ravenna, operates an extensive fleet of vessels in support of the offshore industry. These range from tugs, to supply boats and crew boats. The latter, mostly in the 30 to 35-meter range, have been imported from US builders. Recently they launched their first Fast Supply Vessel, the 51.75 by 9.
October 19, 2011
Cummins Vessel Reference #644 The Navemar XIV alongside at Salvador. Fernando Santos Mata Virgen carries two business cards. Both cards show him as Director, in one case of the Corema Shipyard in Salvador Brazil, the other for Navemar Towing. Explaining that he has recently sold his fleet of tugs, the 70-year old director is conferring with naval architect Marcos de Parahyba Campos on the bui
October 18, 2011
Cummins Vessel Reference #646 Capt. Jack Davies with the Z-drives on his new tug. Captain Jack Davies is the consummate boatman. Of himself he says, “I love running boats, and being involved in the marine industry.” Davies wears a number of “hats” in the marine industry, and often he is aboard one of the tugs with which he has some ownership involvement. He can be found twisting wrenches in
October 05, 2011
Cummins Vessel Reference #636 Arguably the world’s greatest river system, the Amazon is navigable to large ships from the sea to Manaus. This is a distance of nearly 1000 miles, a similar distance to that from the Gulf of Mexico to Saint Louis on the Mississippi, but on that great American River deep-sea navigation ends at Baton Rouge, only about 250 miles up river. Due to ocean c
September 28, 2011
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
September 20, 2011