Ships & Shipbuilding Projects
Strategic Fleet Modeling for Marine Atlantic
Fleetway developed a business simulation model for each of the Marine Atlantic fleet assets and then combined these models into a fully functional fleet model. The model was used to investigate a wide array of fleet renewal options (refit, charter, buy) to assist Marine Atlantic’s executive to develop their 5 year corporate plan. Fleetway prepared a time domain discrete event simulation of Marine Atlantic’s terminals, passenger and vehicle services, fleet services, and maintenance to further analyze the fleet renewal plan developed in the Strategic Model. In addition to developing and running the model, Fleetway also developed several 'notional' ship designs based upon the model recommendations.
Preliminary Design of a Ferry Vessel
Fleetway was selected as the Naval Architectural Consultant to take the lead role in developing the preliminary design and associated specifications for a ferry to replace the MV Captain Earl W. Winsor. Fleetway will produce a preliminary design and specification package (design drawings, design specifications, calculations and other technical documentation) that will subsequently be provided to shipyards interested in constructing the vessel. Fleetway is responsible for assisting with the selection of the Classification Society, submitting the preliminary design package to the chosen Class and incorporating their comments in the vessel design/specification package. Fleetway will also liaise with Transport Canada Marine Safety to ensure that the vessel design meets or exceeds all Canadian standards.
Vessel Condition Assessment and Life Extension Technical Evaluation
Fleetway was contracted by Marine Atlantic Inc. (MAI) to conduct vessel condition assessments and life extension evaluations on MV Caribou, MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood to determine compliance with applicable codes and regulations, compliance with known regulations which could be enacted within ten (10) years, current system demands, and current system capabilities.
Fleetway also worked with numerous equipment vendors in order to establish a rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost for the recommended equipment replacement or enhancements. The intent of this ROM data was to permit the calculation of the proposed refit cost and to conduct a cost benefit analysis of selected systems.
Charter Vessel Studies, Survey and Technical Support
Marine Atlantic leased the ferry Superfast IX in order to ensure service availability in a growing market. Fleetway was contracted to conduct specific vessel studies and a vessel pre-delivery survey of the MV Atlantic Vision (ex Superfast IX) including a Cargo Handling Study (cars, transporters, passengers), a Mooring Study, the preparation of the Refit Specifications and to provide ongoing technical support to Marine Atlantic with respect to the introduction of a new charter vessel into their existing ferry vessel fleet. As a final task, Fleetway conducted a complete analysis of the available technical and operational data review, a needs analysis, and then prepared a final report for Marine Atlantic that indexed the available information and identified information that was lacking and needed to support the vessel.
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