Cummins Marine Case Studies

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

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

Cummins Vessel Reference #820 Container ship 75X13-meters, 128 TEU, 2,500 tons cargo. European shippers have long taken advantage of that continent’s rivers for shipping containers. More recently, Vietnamese shipping firms are following that trend. Power Two Cummins KTA19, 600 each. Development of a deep draft container port in the Vung Tau Port complex is making the shipment of containers

Cummins Vessel Reference #821 Ready to fish.   Bui Van Cong earned significant success as a commercial fisherman in Australia and later more success as a boat builder in Darwin. After ten years in Darwin, he returned to his native Vietnam where he has now spent over 20 years building boats. (www.tanviendong.net)     Bui Van Cong, Director with one of his c

Cummins Vessel Reference #794 A "Swiss Army Knife" of Work Boats   In April 2016 Zumaia Offshore, S.L., leading workboat owner and operator based in the Basque Country, took delivery of the Cummins-powered MPP workboat “Aitana B” from Neptune Shipyards in the Netherlands. At 27 by 12-meters with a three-meter draft it is one of the largest models of Neptune’s Eurocarrier® series

Cummins Vessel Reference #815 Profile of the new trawler.   Centrally located near the top of Denmark, the Jobi Yard has a skilled crew capable of carrying out work in wood, fiberglass, aluminum or steel. Whether for repair and maintenance or new construction, Jobi Yard has a reputation of quality and Danish reliability.   When fishing skipper Ejner Klitlund and his so

Cummins Vessel Reference #814 Tom Aliotti’s new Bristol Bay boat on sea trials.   Tom Aliotti's new Bristol Bay gillnetter Mariola did 36 knots on sea trials. Asked the secret of getting that speed, he replied, “I’m not going to tell you my secret, except that I have fished Bristol Bay for 33 years and I use that knowledge to build boats for fishermen.     An

Cummins Vessel Reference #807   In sea trials the Bravo II was showing her style.   Armstrong Marine has grown out of the solid history of Northwest aluminum boat construction. Having worked their built vessels on both sides of the Canada-US border, they have earned a strong reputation for quality at the Port Angeles location. As with much of the early aluminum boat buildin

Cummins Vessel Reference #785 The M/V Capt Calvin Hatfield owned by Higman Marine Services, Inc. peninsula dock in Houston, TX, January 21, 2016.   Delivered recently, the new pushboat M/V Capt. David Carriere is nearly identical to a series that Higman Barge Lines, Inc, of Houston, Texas has had built at Hope Services of Dulac Louisiana. The new 78 by 34-foot boat has a molded d

Cummins Vessel Reference #813     Rory Pitsch with the latest 32-footer from Strongback Marine.   For sheer numbers and intensity, it would be hard to imagine anything more driven than Alaska’s annual Bristol Bay sockeye fishery. Rory Pitsch, one of the owners of Strongback Metal Boats, has grown up with the boats being built at his father’s shops and, for several

Cummins Vessel Reference #811 Meeting her element at Sausalito.   Old photos show mid-nineteenth century sailing ships abandoned in the San Francisco Bay area by crews who caught gold fever. Some of these abandoned hulls lie under the modern day city of San Francisco. Over in Sausalito, just to the north of the famous Golden Gate Bridge, what may well be the spirit of one of thos

Cummins Hotips #809 On the hard but ready for the water. There was a time when the shipyards of Sarawak couldn’t keep up with the orders for OSVs, landing craft and tugs. Now, the shipyards are feeling the worldwide doldrums brought on by low oil prices. Hung Seng Shipbuilding, is Sibu, Sarawak has experienced a similar slowing in orders, but to keep their crews of expert welders, pipe fitters