Cummins Marine Case Studies
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
Cummins Vessel Reference #571 Penguin’s recently delivered Hull #162. Photo courtesy of Penguin. The design and building of a modern aluminum crew boat involves a lot of people and careful planning. At Penguin Marine in Singapore the 17 vessels of their 36-meter crewboat demonstrate their success in working closely with key members of the supplier team. In coordination with Penguin’s expecta
November 12, 2009
Cummins Vessel Reference #570 Esvagat Capri at ASL Marine, Singapore If there is a slowing in the marine industries no one told the people at ASL Marine in Singapore. Among other projects the shipyard is building a series of Roto Tugs, a series of large PSVs and a 60-meter dive support vessel. In November ASL was nearing completion of another in their series of di
November 11, 2009
Cummins Vessel Reference #568 The Hanseatic, Photo courtesy of Cummins Holland B.V. The Hanseatic League was a highly successful trading alliance among northern European cities from the 13th to the 17th centuries. Some German cities continue to maintain an association under that name. Now the name Hanseatic is proudly emblazoned on the bow of a powerful inland-river boat built in the Netherla
October 22, 2009
Cummins Vessel Reference #569 Kitty Fox II, Photo courtesy of South China Shipyard This past September the South China Shipyard located at Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, China delivered another in their successful series of 4400 HP, 42 by 11-meter anchor handling tugs. The Kitty Fox II is classed BV 1 +HULL +Mach Special Service Multi-purpose AHT unrestricted navigation; the vessel is one o
October 15, 2009
Cummins Vessel Reference #567 Thai-built tin dredges working in Indonesian waters. Photo by Khun Wanchai. According to some reports, the world’s first mining operation in the world to use vessels for dredging ore from the sea bottom was developed in 1907 by Australian Edward Miles. He dredged the sea bottom around Thailand’s modern tourist island of Phuket to recover tin, which had been mined
October 15, 2009
Cummins Vessel Reference #566 Colibri 1, photo courtesy of Strategic Marine In the midst of a significant down turn in the worldwide demand for new crewboats, Strategic Marine is delivering vessels from their Singapore shipyard as well as their new Mexican yard. Recently delivered from the Singapore shipyard the 31 by 7.5–meter crew boat Colibri I. Built for Indonesia’s Baruna Raya Logistics
September 17, 2009
Cummins Vessel Reference #565 Arne Christiansen, photo courtesy of Steiner Shipyard The final, for now, delivery in a series of four 120×34-foot 3200-HP Z-drive towboats was completed at Steiner Shipyard in Alabama. The innovative vessels were built for Southern Towing of Memphis Tennessee. As with the other three vessels the Arne Christiansen is powered by a pair of Tier 2 compliant Cummins
September 17, 2009
Cummins Vessel Reference #564 Seabed Worker, Photo courtesy of Seabed AS/Cummins Norway AS Mariners have become accustom to seeing ever more complex and sophisticated vessels launched in support of the petroleum exploration industry. A new level was set this year when the Norwegian yard Fjellstrand AS launched the multi-purpose offshore vessel Seabed Worker for Seabed AS of Be
September 17, 2009