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November 2005
Efficient Gen Sets for Efficient Dutch Yard
Cor du Ruyter with three Cummins powered gen sets on his shop floor.
On the shop floor at the Netherlands’ De Ruyter Dieseltechniek B.V. the engines of several manufacturers are arrayed in various states of completion as diesel-electric generator sets. But the products of the Cummins Engine Company dominate over half of the floor space. Company director Cor de Ruyter shows a set of generators that includes a Cummins KTA19 G4 driven 507 KV set destined for a newly building inland tank ship for British Petroleum. Currently building at the Breko Shipyard, the product carrier will utilize the big gen set for both bow thruster and cargo pump power.
Also on the floor are a number of Cummins 6CT-powered gen sets that have become the standard for both ship service and emergency generators on the rapidly expanding coastal shipping fleets. A number of these were destined for seven sea-going ships building in Rumania, still others were for delivery to the Shipyard Ferus Smit at Westerbroek in north Netherlands (www.ferus-smit.nl/index.html) At the shipyard, Project Manager B.A. “Bart” Volgers explains that they are delivering a ship every eleven weeks.
Three layers of the stern section in place at the Ferus Smit
Shipyard.
In an amazing demonstration of how a high labour cost country like the Netherlands can retain a position in ship building, the Ferus Smit yard has a hugely efficient build process. Working with two building sheds separated by a large assembly area, they build the stern section in layered components in one shed while the other shed is used to build a series of seven eleven-meter and a single 18-meter mid-sections. At the same time the bow section is being fabricated in three layers in the same shed. All steel is delivered to the yard precut and ready for fabrication.
Production manager Bart Volgers with one ship alongside and the
midsections for another behind him.
As the mid-sections are finished and painted they are moved out to the assembly area. In the first fabrication shed the layers of the stern section are fabricated upside down allowing all of the ceiling piping and duct work to be fabricated efficiently. This process includes the wheelhouse which is built in just seven days and then turned and placed on the stern section once it has been moved from the shed. Engines, both the MAK 8M25 and the Cummins auxiliaries, are installed as their section is put in place. Two of the Cummins generator sets are installed in the engine room for ship service power while a third goes higher in the super-structure as emergency generator set.
From start to finish each 110x14x8,1-meter 6,000 DWT general cargo ship is completed in only 5.5 months. By scheduling the build process, the firm is able to deliver five ships of this size from the yard per year. An additional three and a half vessels can be completed at their smaller yard in Leer Germany. Currently the two yards are committed to building a series of 15 vessels for independent owner-operators who are all associated with Wagenborg Shipping www.wagenborg.com
A ship being completed alongside and the stern section fabrication
shop behind the midsection on the quay.
For further information:
Maurice Seijkens
Sales Representative
Cummins Holland B.V.
P.O. Box 520 3300 AM Dordrecht
Galvanistraat 35 3316 GH Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0) 78 6181 200
Fax +31 (0) 78 6176 579
Moblie +31 (0) 6 2291 6520
E-mail: marice.seijkens@cummins.com
Cor de Ruyter
Director
De Ruyter Dieseltechniek B.V.
Parabool 101
3364 DH Sliedrecht
Phone: 0184 424295
Fax: 0184 425118
Mobile: 06 2245 4013
E-mail: ruyter.dieseltechniek@planet.nl
Ferus Smit Shipyards
Scheepswervenweg 7
Westerbroek
P.O. Box 147, 9600 AC Hoogezand
The Netherlands
Phone: (+31) 50 404 2555
Fax: (+31) 50 404 2500
E-mail: info@ferus-smit.nl
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