A study committee appointed by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted an assessment of the effectiveness of the U.S. Coast Guard's oversight of recognized organizations and its impact on compliance and on the safety of vessels inspected by such organizations during meetings this week at the J. Erik Jonsson Center in Woods Hole, MA. [...]
The Member Authorities of the Tokyo and the Paris Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) on Port State Control will launch a joint Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Stability (in general). The purpose of the campaign on ship’s stability is to confirm that the ship’s crew is familiar with assessing the actual stability condition on completion [...]
Background In June, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) held its 76th Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) session. Arguably, the most important and time-consuming issue on the committee's agenda is the regulation of greenhouse Gases (GHG) from ships. Because the IMO is an agency of the United Nations (UN), IMO’s efforts on this subject have [...]
Hendrik Bruhns succeeds Spencer Schilling who will formally step down as President on July 1st, 2021. Spencer Schilling, who has worked for HEC for 38 years, 14 of them as President, is happy to pass the torch to the next generation. Spencer explained, “I have been privileged to work with a very talented [...]
Background: In July 2020, the IMO 4th GHG study was released, and the highlights and an executive summary were presented as a submission to IMO’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee for discussion at the upcoming MEPC 75 (virtual meeting scheduled on 16-20 November 2020). The study was conducted by an international group of experts from [...]
On November 1st, Herbert Engineering President, Spencer Schilling, participated in a panel session reviewing future fuel options for ships in 2030, at the SNAME Maritime Convention in Tacoma WA - Panel Session. Spencer reviewed out the ambitious IMO 2030 and 2050 goals for GHG emissions, and presented some of the positive and negative aspects [...]
LNG World News published an article about us entitled, “Herbert Engineering Corp. Designs LNG-fueled Jumbo Ethylene Carrier “. Click to see the whole article. Link does to work
This position requires a good working knowledge of all machinery and mechanical systems on commercial vessels. A full understanding of the demands of the marine and shipboard environment, international equipment and operating standards, and current industry practice is expected. The successful applicant will support vessel owners/operators with designs for new vessels, vessel construction [...]
The second vessel in the Matson Aloha Class, a sister vessel to Daniel K. Inouye, was recently christened as Kaimana Hila at Philly Shipyard Inc. This new ship will soon join its sister in the US West Coast to Hawaii trade. The Aloha Class ships are the largest containerships ever built in the USA [...]
Herbert Engineering Corp of Alameda, CA, has been selected by Agility Gas Technology of Park Ridge, NJ, to develop a ship design concept that will capitalize on Agility’s novel, less expensive yet safer technology to build large atmospheric-pressure cryogenic-liquid chemical transport ships. Specific designs are under development for very large-volume liquid ethylene, ethane, and [...]
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