Besides working on its projects,
25 Deltamarin was doing constant research
and development on stability and propulsion
and was participating in several EU funded
multinational R&D projects. This was an
efficient way to expand its own resources and
to get much better theoretical understanding
of problems and new developments through
cooperation with institutes and universities
participating in these projects. Especially
fruitful was the cooperation with Prof.
Dracos Vassalos and his team at Strathclyde
University in Glasgow. Deltamarin did much
cooperation with Prof. Vassalos who also
became a member of the company’s board.
The world was slowly becoming more
ecologically conscious, which was having an
impact on ship design.
“It’s surprising how many shipowners
lack modern IT tools to analyse those things,”
Björkman said in the interview. “We had the
fundamentals that we have since had the
chance to develop further.”
“The method that took us forward was
working on all areas of a project: we worked
on the initial concepts, did basic design and
detail design for shipyards of all parts of
the ship as well as workflow planning,” says
Kanerva. “When you understand how the
shipyard sees the process, you develop a good
understanding of the big picture. Utilising
that knowledge was very important for us
when making concepts. Many shipyards
lacked a concept department; instead, they
had different design departments working on
a project. It easily leads to sub-optimisation
Chemical parcel tanker
Stolt Shearwater
built for Stolt Parcel
Tankers at the INMA
SpA shipyard in Italy.
Deltamarin delivered
design and engineering
services for the project.
(PHOTO: PUBLIC DOMAIN)