In this video, you can see products useful for commercial vessels. Plegier company presents their products like Hydraulic Valve Remote Controlling Systems including thick measuring systems and monitoring systems. The company is the producer and supplier of complete remote control systems for Ballast, Bilge, Fuel oil, Cargo, Black / Gray water, Anti heeling and Tank Measuring Systems. They also have electro hydraulic systems including hydraulic units using only a cable instead of pipes or boxes reducing the cost for piping and installation works. This can be used for vessels like Cruise liners, Bulk Carriers, Containers and so on. The company also offer complete tank management system.

It is an internationally acting company specializing in mechanical engineering, electronics, plastics and laser optics. They have more than 500 employees at its four facilities in Germany as well as in China, Korea and the USA. Main focus of the company are remote controlled valve systems in shipbuilding, control and tele-control engineering for vessels and industry, hydraulic system solutions, casting of polyurethane elastomeres, molding injection and optical coatings for laser applications.

PLEIGER MASCHINENBAU GmbH & CO. KG
Im Hammertal 51, 58456 Witten,
Germany.

Tel : +49 (0) 2324 398 240
Fax : +49 (0) 2324 398 380
E-mail : gf@pleiger-maschinenbau.de

* Updates from SMM India 2009 *

In this video, Geeta Engineering Works Pvt Ltd points that they are looking forward to manufacture and indigenize the Australian Water Jets in India. That’s a glad news to Indian Maritime Industry. Geeta Engineering Works Pvt Ltd at present imports them. They have proposed to Indian Navy, their clients and other agencies as there is no indigenized water jet available in India till now.

N. N. Shipbuilders and Engineers Pte Ltd and Geeta Engineering Works Pvt Ltd provide all kinds of shipbuilding and shipping activities along with manufacturing of the vessels and other fabrication jobs. Their manufacturing products also include all kind of marine equipments such as stun gas, steering gas, all deck machineries like capstans, accommodation ladders etc. This Group of Companies have been serving the Indian Navy for last four decades and is still continuing with same programme. Pioneers in the indigenization of equipments acquired from foreign, the firm is continuing to indigenize and support it for past 35 years with all sparing services.

M/s. Geeta Engineering Works Pvt Lt6d. (GEW) & M/s. N.N Shipbuilders and Engineers Pte Ltd. (NNSE) are Mumbai based group engaged in business for the past 4 decades.

GEW is specialized in Design, Development, and Manufacture of Ship’s Equipment as mentioned below and supplied to Indian Navy Coast Guard, ONGC SCI etc:
i. Electro-Hydraulic Steering gears
ii. Propeller & Stern Gear (F.P & C.P.P.)
iii. Non-ferrous Centrifugal Castings including NAB castings & cenbtrifugal liners, etc.

All the NNSE products are manufactured to meet ISO standards and under supervision of international classification societies such as IRS, LRS, ABS, BV, as well as to meet the required standard of Indian Navy.

GEETA ENGINEERING WORKS PVT. LTD. (GEW) & N.N. SHIPBUILDERS AND ENGINEERS PVT. LTD.
216, Devashree Garden Commercial complex
R.W. Sawant Raod, Majiwada, Thane – 400601, Maharashtra, India

Tel: +91 22 21721122, 21721150
Fax: +91 22 21721446
Email: geeta.engg@rediffmail.com
Website: www.geetaengineering.in

MARS, worlds leading ERP solution for shipbuilding industry is basically developed by shipyards, for shipyards. MARS integrates with design system and fine art system to provide a fully integrated solution for shipbuilding. This dedicated ERP solution essentially focuses on the core business areas of a shipbuilding company.

In 1989 Logimatic worked along with STX Toko to develop the first MARS system, which was later implemented in 70 shipyards across the globe in various continents. With the inputs from shipyards, it was further enhanced to incorporate best practices across the maritime shipbuilding industry. Today MARS is running in shipyard having 2800 concurrent users and also in a shipyard having 20 concurrent users proving the scalability of the system.

Logimatic is an international IT company with more than 20 years of experience of sales implementation and support of in-house developed IT solutions. In addition to this, we focus on system integration and consulting services.

Logimatic has developed MARS system. MARS is a shipbuilding process management system that optimizes project control, materials management, resource planning designed specifically for the shipbuilding industry to significantly reduce cost and time to build, increasing profitability of shipyards.

Logimatic Software India Pvt. Ltd.
Q city, Block A, Level 5, Nanakaramguda,
Survey No. 109, 110 & 111/2
Ganchibowli, Hyderabad – 500032, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Tel : +91 40 44585555
Fax : +91 40 44585544
E-mail : Imcin@logimatic.com
Website : www.logimatic.com

Faster, safer, more cost efficient and more environment friendly – modern ships play a key role in world trade. Everyone who needs to stay upfront on international market needs the SMM – Shipbuilding, Machinery and Marine Technology, International Trade Fair, Hamburg.

The SMM is the biggest international trade fair for the maritime industry. Nearly all the established and emerging shipbuilding leaders, representing scores of countries gather this focal point of maritime business. The SMM turns Hamburg into the global market for ship building sector for 4 days. Ship owners from all over the world regularly use the SMM to attain a comprehensive overview of new technologies, systems, and development trends.

The Hanseatic city of Hamburg is ideally seated to host the top maritime trade fair such as the SMM. We look forward to welcoming you to the event in global ship building in the cosmopolitan city of Hamburg on September 7 – 10, 2010.

The session is chaired by Commodore M. Jitendaran, CMD, Cochin Shipyards Ltd.

The keynote presentations are delivered by Arindam Ganguli, Director, Shoft Shipyards Ltd., India, focusing on the Supply Chain Management in SME Shipyards – A Case Study Illustrating Effective Solutions and Matthew Cuerdon, Vice President – Business Development, AVEVA NET Solutions Asia Pacific Division, UK briefs on the aspects of Collaborative Opportunities Sharing a Digital Information Hub

The panel is headed by Ralf Soeren Marquardt (Dr), Director, German Shipbuilding and Ocean Industries Association, Germany and Junzo Takasu, Senior Staff Officer – Marine Propulsion Design Department, Kawasaki, Japan focuses on the Advantages of Utilizing CPP Propellers and Azimuth Thrusters for Propeller Systems as opposed to other Types of Propeller Systems which do not provide as much Efficiency, Speed or Maneuverability.

Commodore M Jitendran Chairman & Managing Director

Chairing the session will be Commodore M. Jitendaran, CMD, Cochin Shipyards Ltd., India. We brief you through the biography of his eventful and servicing life to the growth of the maritime activities in India.

Shri. M. Jitendran (Commodore: Retd) has been with Cochin Shipyard Ltd for the past seven years. He took over charge as C&MD, CSL in March, 2005. Prior to this, he was Director Operations) of CSL sine May 2002. A Post Graduate in Naval Architecture from IIT,Kharagpur and St.Petersburg, he is a fellow Member of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects, London. He joined this shipyard after premature retirement from Indian navy where he earlier served for 30 years.

During his tenure in Cochin Shipyard, the yard has secured many prestigious and large foreign orders for shipbuilding and high value orders in Ship repair. The net worth of the yard quadrupled remarkably and the yard has earned the reputation for timely delivery of high quality ships. More than 25 ships have been exported in the last 5 years. The product profile was widened including Aframax Tankers, Bulk Carriers, Platform Supply Vessels, Dredgers, Fire Floats, and Tugs. More than 300 ships including Oil rigs were repaired or upgraded both for Indian & foreign owners. The turnover of the yard has more than quadrupled in the last 4 years and has crossed the 1350 crores mark in 2008-2009. Separately, the construction of the prestigious Indigenous Aircraft Carrier has also commenced and is presently set to launch in 2010 / early 2011.

In 2007-08 and 2008-09, the shipyard set several records including launching 5 ships at a time on the same day. The yard also received Performance Excellence Awards from prestigious institutions. CSL was also conferred the Mini Ratna Category-I in July 2008.

He was born in July 1951 and is the son of an army officer. He speaks Hindi, Telugu, Tamil & Russian other than English.

Marine BizTV caught up for an exclusive interview with this stalwart of maritime India.

Watch the Commodore sharing his thoughts on the Cochin Shipyard, its success and shortcomings, and potentials of the Indian shipping industry.