In May, it was ICE’s turn to arrange a General Assembly meeting for Space@Sea, a 3-year EU-supported research project involving several European companies, universities and other institutions. The long-anticipated arrangement was supposed to include a dinner hosted by ICE onboard…
ICE exhibited this year again at the Marintec trade show in China with a stand in the UK pavilion. With 2exhibiting companies from 30 countries, and nearly 72,000 professional visitors from 100 countries, the 20th edition of Marintec reaffirmed its…
As usual, ICE employees will take two weeks off for Christmas, namely weeks no 52 of 2019 and week 1 of 2020, i.e. from December 23 until January 6. Some critical work will be performed during those two weeks and…
Following a design review performed by a team of experts in the Global Engineering division of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) in Houston, Texas, ABS has formally issued an Approval In Principle (AIP) for the conceptual design of the…
Recently, a Space@Sea General Assembly meeting was held in Trondheim, Norway, hosted by Val FoU AS. Cristinel Chiriac, Department Manager Concepts Development, Alexandru Cobzaru, Senior Engineer and Dragos Totolici, Principal Engineer represented ICE at the event and gave updates on:…
Recently, ICE participated at the GNA 2019, an international Naval Architecture Conference held in Galati, Romania. At the conference, Vasile Rata, Engineer, Machinery & Piping (pictured here, left), presented a paper describing aspects of using 3-D laser scanning technology in…
ICE will again be exhibiting as part of the UK Pavilion at the Marintec trade show. The exhibition will take place from December 3 to 6 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. This year, ICE will draw attention to…
Based on extensive gas ship design experience, ICE has recently developed a flexible LNG bunkering vessel suitable for supplying a wide range of LNG fuelled ships. Cargo capacity is of 8,000 cubic meter distributed over two IMO type C bi-lobe…
ICE has for a long-time been a preeminent user of Tribon, PDMS and AVEVA Marine software; it currently holds about 250 AVEVA Marine licenses. To stay in the forefront of technological development ICE has embarked on a process of gradually…
The recent Monaco Yacht Show proved a busy one for the ICE team, who exhibited as part of the Isle of Man Maritime, a trading association of which ICE is a member. With 600 exhibitors and 30,000 visitors, this year’s…
ICE experienced engineers have recently performed a 3D laser scanning and survey on-board of a very large crude oil tanker (VLCC) – pictured. The scanned areas included: the entire engine room, the funnel and external area adjacent to the funnel….
Last month, ICE’s Business Development Director, Coen Landa, visited Nigeria for meetings in Abuja and discussions with Kohi Engineering on possible areas of cooperation. The visit was a follow-up to several meetings between Kohi and ICE in London and Romania,…
We are sad to note the death of Dr Birger Natvig, who after a long illness passed away peacefully on September 3rd, surrounded by his nearest family. At ICE, we will remember Dr Natvig as the mild-mannered and soft-spoken principal…
Recently, Finland’s largest shipyard Meyer Turku Oy conducted an audit to qualify ICE as a subcontractor of design and engineering services. ICE successfully passed the audit and is now ready to add Meyer Turku to its list of clients building…
ICE will be exhibiting at the upcoming Monaco Yacht Show (MYS), 25-28 September. Celebrating its 29th edition, the event will welcome almost 600 exhibitors representing leading companies in yacht design, boat building, superyacht “toys”, technology, brokerage and charter. Coen Landa,…
ICE has recently released the G-1600-SM/W proprietary hull design for a 1.6Mbbl Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The new design is based on ICE’s track record of more than 40 FPSO/FSO projects (new construction, conversions and various studies)….
Summer is the perfect time to host a BBQ event in the sunshine. ☀️ With that in mind, #ICE’s management used its traditional semi-annual briefing session for all its Romanian 🇷🇴 employees to arrange a BBQ party to say thanks…
We remind our clients and other business associates of ICE Group’s vacation from July 22 until August 11, with our Split, Croatia office being off August 5 – 18. Critical projects with sensitive schedules will as always be staffed during…
DNV-GL Business Assurance has recently performed an ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) recertification audit on ICE. We are proud that our company successfully passed the audit, thereby achieving recertification of the Company’s QMS for the next three years, subject…
After contributing to Romania’s energy supply for 40 years, Gloria is getting ready for retirement. Petrom, a subsidiary of Austrian group OMV, selected GSP Offshore to handle the decommissioning work. It includes reinstating the platform jacking system, positioning the platform…
ICE exhibited this year again at the Nor-Shipping trade show in Norway with a stand in the UK pavilion. With exhibitors from 47 countries and visitors from over 85 nations, a record number of delegates attended the exhibition and associated…
ICE will again be exhibiting at Nor-Shipping, the leading maritime event of the year, in Lillestrom (Oslo), Norway 04 – 07 June 2019. As Europe’s largest independent ship designer, we will showcase our designs for the commercial shipping, defence and…
ICE has won a contract with Piraeus-based marine consultancy group Alpha Marine Consulting for scrubber retrofit design services for a series of merchant vessels. The exhaust gas cleaning systems will be supplied by a leading global provider ICE’s scope of…
Recently, Space@Sea general assembly meeting was held in Graz, Austria, being hosted by Technische Universität Graz. Cristinel Chiriac, Department Manager Concepts Development, Alexandru Cobzaru, Senior Engineer and Florin Flor, Principal Engineer represented ICE at the event and gave updates on:…
HRH Prince Edward The Earl of Wessex on May 17th officially opened a new office of ICE during a visit to Split, Croatia. His Royal Highness, who was in Split to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Croatia’s NATO membership, also…
Having actively supported Constanta Shipyard (SNC) in the design of the yard’s latest series of product/chemical tankers, a team from ICE was invited to the naming ceremony of the “Histria Atlas” in Constanta, Romania on 11th of April. The first…
ICE is pleased to congratulate the Isle of Man Ship Registry with being named ‘Best Shipping Registry 2019’ by World Commerce Review. The awards recognise professional conduct and excellence. During the selection process the panel took into account product innovation,…
Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Toronto – one of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Halifax-class frigates – was recently in the Black Sea as part of Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) conducting a variety of maritime situational awareness patrols and…
ICE is happy to announce the opening of a ship design office in Split, Croatia. Steinar Draegebo, ICE Chairman & CEO, says that the idea for a permanent ICE presence in Croatia originally came from the owner of the local…
ICE offers design and engineering services for clients in the commercial shipbuilding, naval and offshore energy market segments. Our reference portfolio includes a diverse and demanding range of projects across the markets served. The main 3-D ship design software used…
Seajacks’ Zaratan is transferred from Europe to be used in construction of Taiwan’s new commercial offshore windfarm, Formosa I (phase 2). The self-propelled, dynamically positioned jack-up vessel was built by Lamprell in 2012 at their Hamriyah facility in the United…
As part of a new ferry service planned by an undisclosed client, ICE has recently developed a design for an all-electric ferry that can carry 200 passengers and 45 cars. The shallow-draft double-ended mono-hull ferry will be propelled by four…
ICE has won new contracts for scrubber retrofit design services for a series of container vessels for a leading European shipowner. ICE’s scope of work includes basic design, detail design and development of production information. The hybrid exhaust gas cleaning…
The ‘Methane Coral’ has recently been converted to serve as a bunkering vessel for LNG. ICE played a major role in the original design of this vessel, which was launched in 2009. Designed as a versatile gas carrier, the ‘Methane…
Thanks to its substantial track record on design of passenger vessels – including participating in design of some of the world’s largest cruise ships – ICE has successfully overcome the general downturn that still persists in the world’s shipbuilding and…
We are pleased to recognise that Mr Fred. Olsen – an industry pioneer – has reached his 90th birthday. With roots going back to 1848 and a rich history in shipowning and more recently offshore drilling, the Fred. Olsen group’s…
Late last year, ICEPRONAV Engineering SRL had the pleasure of being visited at its Galati, Romania office by Dr Jongjoo Kim and Mr Choi Youngwoong from SK Shipping. Since its start in 1982 as a company transporting crude oil, SK…
We are sad to note the recent passing of Dr. Ing Gelu Kahu, just a few weeks before his 89th birthday. Dr. Kahu was the first Director of the state-owned research and design institute for shipbuilding ‘Institutul de Cercetare Stiintifica…