Pushboats for the Amazon
Cummins Vessel Reference #586
Transdorada Transportes LTDA, a towboat operator on Brazil’s Amazon River, has recently taken delivery of a number of Cummins-powered push boats. These include two 19.5-meter boats with twin Cummins KTA19-M3 engines each delivering 600 HP and a single 19.5-meter pushboat with a single KTA19-M3 engine. All three vessels were built at Estaleiro Rio Maguari.
The boats will operate on the Amazon River between Belem and Manaus with the 1200 HP twin engined boats pushing six to nine barges and the 600 HP single-screw vessel pushing four barges at a time. The round trip for both sets of vessels is about five days. The vessels carry the names Angico, Jatoba and Aroeira.
The DCML Norte the Cummins distributor for Amazon River area supplied the engines. Application engineers on this installation were Adriano Batista and Fabiano Pereira.
For further information, please contact:
Waldemar Marchetti
Marine Business Manager, South America and Mixico
Rua Jati
Guarulhos SP 07180-900
Brasi
Phone: (55-11) 2186 4778
E-mail: waldemar.m.sobrinho@cummins.com
Olmedo Farfan
Marine Application Engineer
Cummins Inc. – Marine Business
4500 Leeds Ave
Charleston, SC 29405
Office: 843 745 1581
Mobile: 843 298 4580
E-mail: olmedo.farfan@cummins.com
Alan Haig-Brown
Over 30 years as an author for global commercial marine and fishing publications backed with hands-on experience on commercial fishing boats and coastal freighters makes Alan Haig-Brown uniquely qualified to provide vessel reference articles for Cummins Marine. You can find him in shipyards around the world, and on his own website, www.haig-brown.com.
