Marine Link Article on NSMV Published

Another article in Marine Link this month highlighting the state of the existing Maritime Academy training ships, but also reiterating the importance of the ships, not just to train new generations of cadets, but their important role in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. 3 out of the 6 ships were activated in the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Maria.

Herbert Engineering Corp. has designed the new replacement training ships and funding to go further with new training ships is in the 2018 federal budget if it gets passed. Support in Congress is critical and stories like this help build that support.

The story can be found here.

HEC & Herbert-ABS Opens Joint Office in Houston

Herbert Engineering and Herbert-ABS opened up a NEW office in Houston, Texas right in time for the 2017 SNAME convention.  In addition to our European and Asian hubs, HEC is now evenly distributed across the USA from our West Coast headquarters in Alameda, California to our East Coast office in Annapolis, Maryland.

Rene Powell joined the HEC team as a Senior Naval Architect in October, 2017. He has extensive ship design and project management experience in offshore vessels and stability analysis.  Jesse Senkel, who handled the logistics of setting up our Houston office, has been working with HEC for over a decade serving our clients including APL Maritime and LMS Shipmanagement, Inc. One exciting project that he headed this past year was design and engineering work for Evoqua to adapt the Evoqua Seacure BWTS to tankers with FRAMO deep well pumps. 

Chris Licato, a native Texan and recent graduate of Webb Institute, is taking H-ABS to the next level. They celebrated their first HEC/H-ABS holiday party with an intimate gathering at a downtown sushi restaurant. Kampai!

Contact details as follows:

2000 S. Dairy Ashford Rd., Suite 575
Houston, TX 77077, USA
Phone: +1 (832) 300-0155
Email:  info@herbert.com

 

50,000 dwt Product Tankers for APT - Kinder Morgan

Herbert Engineering (HEC) was able to assemble and manage a cost effective team consisting of four key inspectors plus supplemental inspectors as needed for American Petroleum Tanker-Kinder Morgan for the construction of four 50,000 ton dwt product tankers at Philly Shipyard, Inc. (PSI) from start of construction on 2015 through delivery of the fourth tanker in November 2017. 

The team worked closely with PSI to ensure quality construction, high quality coating application and testing of all systems were carried out to deliver high quality vessels to the owner. All four vessels were delivered on time, on budget and without any major deficiencies and have proved successful in service so far.  HEC through use of its own engineers and its network of engineering relationships was able to supplement the inspection team as needed to meet inspection needs for multiple ships under construction at the same time. 

HEC technical management also provided assistance to the inspection team and helped provide solutions to issues that arose during construction, to ensure the vessels fully met the owner’s requirements. This included issues relating to damage to the main engine of the last vessel after arrival at the shipyard that required it to be fully rebuilt at the factory,  

Overall, HEC was able to deliver the full suite of inspection services to APT-KM at less than budgeted cost and at a cost significantly below competing proposals.   

GCaptain also featured an article about the ships here.

““Thanks for your teams hard and dedicated work on the project. We could not have done without the team you assembled!”
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— David Farrell - APT Kinder Morgan

HEC presents Committee report on USCG Polar Icebreakers

USCGC Healy Breaks Ice

On Nov 17th, HEC's Eugene van Rynbach presented the findings of the report "Acquisition and Operation of Polar Icebreakers: Fulfilling the Nation’s Needs" to the American Society of Naval Engineers Arctic Day.

The report was produced by the Committee on Polar Icebreaker Cost Assessment of which Eugene is a member. The full report can be read here. 

NSMV Video Visualisation

(Annapolis, MD) To help visualise the purpose and design of the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV), MARAD commissioned a video showcasing the capabilities of the vessel, and putting into context the urgent need for both cadet training and disaster relief.

A highlights version of the video was produced that focused on the design aspects of the vessel:

The full length version may be found below:

Videos produced by D3DD Studio