Ship & Ocean outsourcing capabilities in commercial ship and floating facilities design and engineering are evidenced by the diversity of the projects that have been completed by our partners. In addition, to developing new building and conversion design for all standard ship types, Ship & Ocean has been involved in supervising of the design of many highly complex ships, including roll-on / roll-off vessels, chemical tankers, gas carriers, salvage vessels, self-discharging bulk carriers and dredges.

As a recent example of work of this nature, ship & Ocean has been supervising the design of double hull tankers by our partners to be compliant with OPA90 and / or IMO requirements. Floating facilities designed by our partners and international clients have included offshore bulk cargo transfer units, power stations, offshore crude oil storage and processing vessels and detention facilities.

A challenging project addressing both ship and floating facility design considerations was recently entrusted to Ship & Ocean. This assignment required the definition of a system to load large ore carriers at sea, outside the draft restriction imposed by the Orinoco River Bar. The successful system approach developed by our partner employed a floating ore transfer station permanently moored outside outside of the bar, supplied by a shallow draft self-discharging shuttle ship operating from the loading port upstream of the bar.