Glosten offers vessel design services from initial concept through detailed design suitable for production. Our vessel design portfolio includes passenger vessels, tugs, barges, research vessels, workboats, and special-purpose platforms. Design is just one aspect of vessel acquisition. We support clients through shipyard qualification and selection, bid review and contract negotiations, construction management, and test and trials. We approach ship design as a process of understanding and articulating the owner’s desires and requirements. Our job is to make sure that the design is workable and to fully describe the solution for efficient construction.
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Multi-Purpose Workboat: MP-80
Introducing the Glosten MP-80, the first in our new Multi-Purpose series. Designed to offer maximum versatility for a wide range of nearshore job functions in marine construction, dredging, and...
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Port of Portland Dredge Oregon Repower
The Port of Portland hired Glosten to develop a comprehensive design package for repowering Dredge Oregon. Glosten's repower efforts will reduce the dredge's diesel particulate emissions by nearly 90%.
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Long Core Installed on the R/V Knorr
Recovering long sediment gravity cores from the seabed was a hallmark of marine geology research in the 1970s but was abandoned by the U.S. oceanographic community by the mid-1980s....
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Beloved Research Vessel Approaches Mid-Life Overhaul
Glosten is supporting the mid-life overhaul of the 25-year old research vessel of the University of Washington, R/V Thomas G. Thompson.
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New Life for Dredge Tender Ivanoff
The Port of Portland's Ivanoff was lacking in propulsion and steerage both ahead and astern to meet the Port’s operational needs. In 2015, the Port of Portland commissioned Glosten...
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Delta Mariner Designed to Carry Rockets
As Owner's Design Agent, Glosten utilized a unique "Design Lead" process to help deliver the stern-loading Ro-Ro Delta Mariner ahead of schedule and on budget.
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