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Shipping Services
Shipping is one of BMT's largest market sectors, involving almost every one of BMT's subsidiary companies. Supported by our worldwide network of offices and an in-depth understanding of the shipping industry, we offer a comprehensive range of services covering all aspects of the shipping life cycle.
BMT has been supporting the maritime industry for many years in respect to the provision of technical solutions embodying the design, modification, conversion and in-service support of commercial ships and off-shore vessels. We offer design support from initial concept, through detailed design to production. The provision of expertise has gravitated towards the more complex vessel types and system configurations, which has resulted in the development of an international reputation for tackling the most intricate of vessel conversion and upgrade projects. BMT has created a brand new range of bespoke ship designs “Nautilus ships”. Nautilus Ships are the latest range of modern commercial standard ship designs that deliver high efficiency in hull form, cargo capacity and engine operating performance, with low emissions and ballast water management. The range is highly innovative and complies with all current international ship safety, environment and structural requirements.
BMT offers an extensive range of in-service / operational support to the shipping industry, such as training (e.g. vessel manoeuvring, environmental awareness), reliability assessment and optimisation of maintenance schedules, and problem solving (e.g. structural cracking, vibration). We have comprehensive trials and instrumentation capabilities, including, for example, inclining experiments, propulsion / seakeeping trials, structural integrity monitoring and materials testing.
BMT provides specialist consultancy such as transport economics, formal safety and risk assessment, expert witness and incident investigations and has an extensive and varied range of clients in the shipping sector, including ship owners, operators, builders, and regulatory authorities.
BMT also offers a range of ship performance monitoring products, including hull stress monitoring, propulsive efficiency monitoring, hull roughness analysers and container stack load monitoring. Other products in support of ship operations include onboard tools for manoeuvring simulation (training and rehearsals), cargo arrangement and voyage planning. All of our products are supported by in-depth understanding of the technical and operational issues.