5.0 Marine Highways/Short Sea Shipping

CCDoTT saw the potential of the use of coastal and inland waterway shipping in the mid 1990’s with economic feasibility studies and commercial multi-hull and high-speed ship designs. Reflected in this program is the emerging recognition of the huge potential to American shipbuilding in this expanding industry, and the dual use value of this class of ships to the military.

2009 Program Elements - Period of Performance September 2010 – March 2012

PE#: 5.03
TITLE: SSS/AMH Trailership Dual-use Concept Refinement and Technology Validation
OBJECTIVE: Build on the FY07 High Speed Trailership for 140 - 53’ trailers feasibility study to refine the concept for commercial SSS/AMH and military RRF Fleet Recapitalization uses; validate the CCDoTT Synthesis Design Model (SDM) tool through model testing at MARIN Model Basin; and design an affordable dual-use ship, estimate its construction and operating costs, and prepare a business plan to implement it for East Coast SSS/AMH service.
RECIPIENT: CSC Advanced Marine Center, Herbert Engineering Corp., MARIN, Mechmath, LLC, SPAR Associates
 
PE#: 5.06
TITLE: Inland Waterway (IWW) Containerships, Vessel Design and National Applications
OBJECTIVE: Explore and develop a concept design for a US IWW container vessel and a service system, and assess their financial viability and economic benefits. This will include defining the potential market(s), defining the ships and shipping services that can best serve this market, and assessing the system’s viability.
RECIPIENT: National Ports and Waterways Institute (NPWI), University of New Orleans
   
PE#: 5.07
TITLE: Multi-Purpose American Marine Highways Series Production Ship (Dual Use Vessel Development)
OBJECTIVE: Refine and expand the FY08 Multi-purpose American Marine Highways Series Production Ship project to incorporate the goals of the Navy N-42 Dual Use Vessel Development Plan in the design of a multi-purpose vessel suitable for AMH service. A second design will be developed that offers a chance to investigate an alternative solution with regard to what is the most suitable AMH vessel design. This project will be conducted together with the concurrent Maritime Highways System Evaluation Model (Dual Use Vessel Development) project for validation.
RECIPIENT: Herbert Engineering Corp (HEC)
 
PE#: 5.08
TITLE: Maritime Highways System Evaluation Model (Dual Use Vessel Development)
OBJECTIVE: Apply the origin-to-destination simulation and economic models developed under previous CCDoTT projects to verify and validate assumptions and projections for the CCDoTT Dual Use AMH concept. “Externalities,” or public benefits, will be incorporated into the models to include emissions, congestion, road maintenance, and other potential public benefits or costs not considered as part of commercial economic analysis.
RECIPIENT: CDI Marine Company, Band Lavis Division, Tedesco Consulting
 
PE#: 6.09.1.2
TITLE: CCDoTT Technology Transition Support Project
OBJECTIVE: Ensure that CCDoTT is sensing the evolving commercial and military needs, is pursuing projects that respond to these needs, and is adequately promulgating the results of projects so that maximum benefits can be reaped. Refine the process so that end users are fully integrated into the Technology Transition process from beginning to end.
RECIPIENT: Herbert Engineering Corp. (HEC)
   
PE#: 6.09.1.3
TITLE: CCDoTT Technology Transition – M-55 Route Ship Study
OBJECTIVE: Provide initial analysis of a candidate ship for potential AMH service on the MARAD designated M-55 Mississippi River corridor. Build on the cargo potential findings of the MARAD M-55 AMH study to design an appropriate vessel.
RECIPIENT: Chris McKesson, PE
 

2008 Program Elements - Period of Performance September 2009 – September 2011

PE#: 5.01
TITLE: Marine Highways System Evaluation Model
OBJECTIVE: Develop a generalized discrete event and voyage model and an economic model that will serve as decision support tools to conduct “what-if” analyses, evaluate infrastructure requirements, and assess the economics for markets of interest and alternative business models. This model will serve as a starting point for future studies and will be evaluated against select test markets.
RECIPIENT: CDI Marine Company, Band Lavis Division
 
PE#: 5.02
TITLE: Multi-purpose American Marine Highways Series Production Ship
OBJECTIVE: This project develops a flexible, utilitarian, easy to build AMH transport vessel. It also develops a cargo handling system for trailers, domestic intermodal and international freight containers that is both simple and inexpensive when compared to the current conventional cargo handling systems. Both efforts will lead to concept level designs that identify the major characteristics of the design and describe the major features, advantages and possible disadvantages of the concept.
RECIPIENT: Herbert Engineering Corp. (HEC)
   
PE#: 6.08.1.1
TITLE: CCDoTT Technology Transition Support Project
OBJECTIVE: Ensure that CCDoTT is sensing the evolving commercial and military needs, is pursuing projects that respond to these needs, and is adequately promulgating the results of projects so that maximum benefits can be reaped. Refine the process so that end users are fully integrated into the Technology Transition process from beginning to end.
RECIPIENT: Herbert Engineering Corp (HEC)
 

2007 Program Elements - Period of Performance June 2008 – December 2009

PE#: 1.33
TITLE: East Coast Marine Transportation System Development based on High Speed Trimaran for 140 53-Foot Trailers
OBJECTIVE: Conduct a concept evaluation of a CCDoTT designed HST-140-53’ commercial ship for East Coast Short Sea Shipping service, and a comprehensive cost analysis of the capital investment and operating costs with accompanying overall business economic analysis. Combine a specific proposed route and a specific ship design to support that route. The result is the concept design to support the specifics of the requirements, and a Short Sea Shipping economic study that can be the basis of a business plan.
SUBCONTRACTOR: CSC Advanced Marine Center (CSC)
   
PE#: 5.07.1.1
TITLE: CCDoTT Technology Transition Support Project
OBJECTIVE: Ensure that CCDoTT is sensing the evolving commercial and military needs, pursues projects that respond to these needs, and adequately promulgates the results of projects so that maximum benefits can be reaped. Refine the process so that end users are fully integrated into the Technology Transition process from beginning to end.
SUBCONTRACTOR Herbert Engineering Corp (HEC)
 

2006 Program Elements - Period of Performance February 2007 – January 2008

PE#: 1.30
TITLE: Operational Development of Short Sea Shipping to Serve the Pacific Coast
OBJECTIVE: Based on FY05 efforts, extend the feasibility analysis of domestic and feeder markets for a transportation and logistics system based on a generic short sea vessel. Perform a detailed review of ship and logistics options, deployments and port selection, and impact on gaining revenue to support the enterprise.
SUBCONTRACTOR: Manalytics International, Inc
 

2005 Program Elements - Period of Performance December 2005 – December 2009

PE#: 3.21
TITLE: Feasibility Assessment of Short Sea Shipping to Service the Pacific Coast
OBJECTIVE: Demonstrate the preliminary market, economic and technical feasibility of a commercial short sea service on the Pacific Coast. Assess the military applications of short sea service and vessels including their scope for contributing to military deployment requirements.
SUBCONTRACTOR: Manalytics International/TranSystems Corporation
   

2001 Program Elements - Period of Performance February 2001 – January 2004

PE#: 2.14.2
TITLE: Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Design Tool Development and Validation, Part 3 - Naval Architecture and Engineering of a Fast Passenger Ferry
OBJECTIVE: Demonstrate the commercial applicability of the optimized underwater body designed with the CFD tools developed by the previous parts of the overall program.
SUBCONTRACTOR: Pacific Marine and Supply, Ltd.
 
PE#: 3.17
TITLE: High-Speed Ferries and Coastwise Vessels Part II: Analyses of Coastal Freight Market and Impact on Coastal Highways
OBJECTIVE: Explore actual application of the domestic terminal layouts in real conditions of a sample of existing ports, including the development of modular designs of various types of terminals. Collect reliable and detailed truckload data and definition of the market for the costal freight shipping need for the overall assessment of the validity of the system. Evaluate the potential economic and environmental benefits generated by coastal shipping on the major coastal corridors such as highways I-95, I-5, and I-10.
SUBCONTRACTOR: University of New Orleans/National Ports and Waterways Institute
 

2000 Program Elements - Period of Performance July 2000 – December 2002

PE#: 3.14
TITLE: High Speed Ferries and Coastwise Vessels: Evaluation of Parameters and Markets for Application
OBJECTIVE: Provide comprehensive coastal shipping information of the potential system's parameters, economic and financial feasibility, and direction for implementation.
SUBCONTRACTOR: University of New Orleans/National Ports and Waterways Institute
   

1998 Program Elements - Period of Performance June 1998 – March 2002

PE#: 3.10/3.11
TITLE: High-Speed Ferries and Coastwise Vessels: Evaluation of Parameters and Markets for Application. Phase II – Definition of a Commercially Viable Coastal Shipping System
OBJECTIVE: Provide definition of a commercially viable coastal shipping system that could relieve congestion on land-based transport arteries and at the same time can be utilized for defense related mobilizations.
SUBCONTRACTOR: Louisiana State University/National Ports and Waterways Institute
   

1997 Program Elements - Period of Performance September 1997 – August 2001

PE#: 2.5
TITLE: High-Speed Ferries and Coastwise Vessels: Evaluation of Parameters and Markets for Application. Phase I - Scope of Work Definition
OBJECTIVE: Assemble Advisory Committee and conduct workshop to define the scope of the research to be conducted as Phase II that will allocate available study resources in the most effective way and produce practical results to the benefit of the maritime industry
SUBCONTRACTOR: Louisiana State University/National Ports and Waterways Institute