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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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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Cold Ironing Solutions
Ocean-going vessels are often viewed as major contributors to air pollution. Matson tasked Glosten to develop cold ironing solutions for eight of their vessels.
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Exxon Kizomba – Traversing Oceans
Spanning 10,000 miles over six months, the Glosten-developed tow plan for the Kizomba A brought the vessel from Korea to offshore Angola via the Cape of Good Hope.
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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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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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A New Research Vessel for Xiamen University
Xiamen University (XMU) is building an oceanographic research ship that is intended to be a floating laboratory on the sea. The vessel will be 78 meters in length with...
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