ICE will again be exhibiting as part of the UK Pavilion at the Marintec trade show. The exhibition will take place from December 5 to 8 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. This year, ICE will draw attention to…
Constanta Shipyard (SNC) – a leading Romanian shipyard – has awarded ICE an important contract for design services for a 41,000 dwt Product/Chemical Tanker of IMO Type 2. Scope of work includes development of an AVEVA Marine 3-D model for…
ICEPRONAV Engineering SRL, as part of ICE Group, has recently completed the Achilles JQS (Joint Qualification System) renewal assessment. The qualification is now renewed until September 2018. Since 2008, ICE has been registered by Achilles, an industry-supported prequalification system serving…
Recently, ICE participated at the ZASTR 2017, an international conference held in Constanta, Romania. At the Conference, Dr Lucian Anghel, Senior Engineer (pictured here, right), presented a paper describing the challenges facing naval architects and structural engineers in meeting the…
MV Werften, a Group consisting of several well-established German shipyards, has awarded ICE an 18-month long contract for detail design of a series of luxury expedition cruise vessels. Named the “Endeavor” class, these vessels will be built at MV Werften’s…
DeltaLifter Technologies AS (“DLT”) of Norway has entrusted ICE with business development, project management and further design of patented vessels for cost-effective removal of the substructures of redundant offshore steel oil & gas production platform substructures (so-called jackets). The DeltaLifter…
As a long-standing member of the important marine industry in the Isle of Man, ICE takes an active part in IOMSA, the trade association that represents Isle of Man-based companies such as shipowners, the Isle of Man Ship Registry, maritime…
ICE has accepted an invitation from MARIN (Maritime Research Institute) in the Netherlands to be a partner in a European funded project Space@Sea funded by EU’s Horizon 2020 research programme. The 3-year project is scheduled to start in November 2017….
Mihai Samoila, Principal Engineer – Machinery & Piping recently participated in the WinGD X-DF Engine Demonstration organised by Winterthur Gas & Diesel at the Wärtsilä testing facility in Trieste, Italy. The event consisted of a presentation of the X-DF Technology…
ICEPRONAV Engineering recently hosted its traditional summer programme for students from the Faculty of Naval Architecture at the Dunarea de Jos University in Galati, Romania. The 17 participants had the opportunity to learn practical aspects of their future profession by…
ICE’s main engineering office in Galati is located a 3-hour drive from the nearest international airport in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. Safe and efficient transportation to and from the airport is an important part of our image so we…
With the ramp-up of new contracts over the next two months, ICE has decided not to have its traditional three-week summer close-down this year. Sorin Brazdis, Director of Operations at Icepronav Engineering commented: “The last months most of our employees…
Florin Flor, Principal Engineer – Machinery & Piping at Icepronav Engineering recently attended the Alfa Laval “PureBallast” training course in Sweden. This reflects ICE’s commitment to have full understanding of BWT equipment, tools and operations offered by the leading BWT…
Derek Doig (pictured below), Managing Director of ICE’s UK subsidiary has decided to retire after 11 years with ICE. Prior to joining ICE, Derek worked for BAE Systems, primarily on the Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier programme. He became part of…
ICE recently participated at the NAPA User Meeting 2017 held in Helsinki, Finland. The NAPA software is one of the many software packages in ICE’s inventory and is a key tool in efficiently developing early concept designs. The participation was…
ICE will again be exhibiting at Nor-Shipping, the leading maritime event of the year, in Lillestrom (Oslo), Norway 30 May- 2 June 2017. As Europe’s largest independent ship designer, we will showcase our designs for the commercial shipping, defence and…
The main 3-D ship design software used by ICE is AVEVA Marine – with 250 licenses ICE is a leading user of that software and was earlier a long-time Tribon user. However, ICE is occasionally asked by clients to use…
ICE has prepared an updated general brochure, which shows the new logo that was introduced last year and also highlights the Group’s 50-year history. Commenting on the new brochure, Coen Landa, ICE’s Business Development Director said: “We needed a new…
ICE has successfully performed many ship conversion designs, including for commercial vessels, warships, offshore oil & gas platforms and FPSOs. Its reference list also includes retrofit design for installation of ballast water treatment (BWT) and scrubber systems on different types…
ICE is pleased that Eero Makinen, formerly Senior Vice President of STX Finland, has entered into a part-time consultancy agreement with ICE. Eero has 45 years of experience in the international shipbuilding industry, with focus on passenger ferries, cruise vessels…
The Government of Romania has recently approved a €10M budget for propulsion system modernization (etc.) of the Perseus – its biggest icebreaker. Her permanent station is on the Danube river, a couple of hundred metres from ICE’s office where she…
Last month a quality assurance team from SBM Offshore in the Netherlands, one of the world’s leading offshore engineering and FPSO operating companies, conducted an ISO 9001:2015 audit to qualify ICE for future engineering contracts. ICE has in the past…
EMSHIP is an advanced Master’s program leading to a combined degree in Offshore Structures and Marine Engineering & Ship Design. It involves universities from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Romania. Each year, as part of being an EMSHIP Strategic…
ICEPRONAV Engineering hosted last month the quarterly meeting of the Romanian Shipbuilders Association (ANCONAV). Icepronav is one of the founding members of this organisation, which represents the Romanian shipbuilding industry as well as producers of ship’s equipment and accessories. Sorin…
2016 was a bad year for the shipbuilding industry. Many shipyards lost money and few new ships were ordered. World-wide, the compensated gross tonnage (CGT) was only about half of what was ordered at the depth of the 2008 financial…
To meet new challenges and widen ICE’s scope of services, the following organisation changes are in effect in Icepronav Engineering SRL in Galati, Romania: Sorin Brazdis is appointed Director of Operations, with responsibility for all projects and other technical activities….
ICE has a long tradition in cooperating with the Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture Faculties of the “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Romania, from where many of the Group’s Romanian employees received their academic degrees. In its role as…