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Forward thinking urban communities throughout the world are looking for mass transport solutions that are both economically and environmentally sustainable, for everyone. Today’s ferry services need to be faster, quieter, more efficient, while being less expensive to operate and better for the environment. Austal has developed the VOLTA series of electric-powered high-speed ferries to spark a change in thinking, challenge convention and exceed the expectations of communities, operators and passengers alike.

Austal’s VOLTA series is a complete, customisable electric-powered transport solution that has been designed from the hull up to offer a smarter, affordable alternative for ferry operators. Ultimately comprising multiple vessel designs, Austal’s VOLTA series combines state-of-the-art electric drive and lithium ion battery technology with lightweight, low-resistance, optimised hull forms to produce high-speed ferries like no other. On-shore, Austal’s VOLTA series are kept running at peak efficiency by the latest in charging infrastructure and in-service support.

Pursuing the ultimate in form and function, Austal’s VOLTA series offers a true sustainable solution for everyone: »  Our planet – Zero emissions*, reduced noise and low wave wash. »  Our community – Cleaner, more reliable, safer and quieter. »  Your company – Reduced energy consumption, maintenance costs and total cost of ownership. *subject to source of energy

As the world’s largest aluminium shipbuilder, Austal has earned a reputation built on innovative hull design, ‘smart’ maritime technology, modular manufacturing techniques and value-adding in-service support. From safe, modern and efficient shipyards located in Australia, USA, The Philippines and Vietnam, Austal offers a growing portfolio of proven monohull, catamaran and trimaran vessel designs - ideal for commercial passenger and vehicle-passenger ferry services - with specifications optimised to match your vessel’s operating profile and environment.

Austal has also developed value adding technologies such as MARINELINK and MOTION CONTROL that have transformed commercial ferry operations and helped set industry benchmarks for vessel and systems performance management, seakeeping and onboard experience for both passengers and crew. Not just a ship designer and builder, Austal is a true technology partner in your commercial maritime operations, with the capability to also provide ongoing service and support, wherever your fleet is in operation.

Going well beyond a traditional powerplant replacement, Austal’s VOLTA series introduces an all new, optimised hull form specifically designed for the electric drive and lithium ion battery technology that provides operators with a genuine advantage in a changing world and a competitive market environment. For detailed information on the Volta Advantage please download the Volta brochure.

The VOLTA Advantage is generated by a smarter hull design that offers superior seakeeping and passenger comfort, while delivering greater efficiency from less power - and zero emissions. The VOLTA Advantage also includes shore- based charging infrastructure and in-service support that minimises turnaround times and keeps your fleet moving.

CFD (computational fluid dynamics) is a cutting-edge flow simulation tool to accurately predict the powering requirements of a vessel. Austal achieves hull form optimisation using CFD, to maximise efficiency through the water and minimising environmental impact (such as wave wash). Increasing transport efficiency = reduced powering requirements = fewer batteries required = lower capex and operating costs.

The Passenger Express 46 V is an IACS-approved, electric passenger ferry, ideal for any inland waterway service operating within a high population, urban environment. Featuring a striking design with capacity for between 400 and 450 passengers, the catamaran boasts a natural, light filled interior enabled by large, panoramic side windows and generous skylights located along the entire length of the vessel.

Distinctive, double automatic sliding doors provide direct access to the passenger deck for quick loading and unloading of passengers; ensuring turnaround times ‘alongside’ never exceed your fast battery charging requirements.

An environmentally friendly, zero emission* electric high-speed ferry that delivers a superior passenger experience, greater efficiency and lower operating costs. ‍ *subject to source of energy

Introducing the Austal VOLTA Auto Express catamaran. An all-electric-powered fast ferry with the capability and affordability to add value to your fleet. Austal has optimised our proven vehicle passenger ferry designs for both weight and efficiency, to achieve the ideal solution for operators on the pathway to net zero emissions. Powerful new battery technologies continue to emerge that compliment Austal’s lightweight and efficient hull forms; allowing all-electric powerplants to be fitted that deliver fast-ferry performance and capability. With carrying capacity to suit your requirements, confidently transport multiple decks of large commercial vehicles, trucks and cars, at speed on electric power.

Drawing upon over 30 years experience in fast ferry designand construction, Austal can customise an all-electric, VOLTA solution with flexibility in layouts for large vehicle passenger ferries, in catamaran (or trimaran) hulls, up to 130 metres. ‍ Austal offers a complete turn-key solution to help operators navigate any regulatory environment and develop cost effective shore-based infrastructure that re-charges your ferries quickly, minimising turn around times and seamlessly integrating to your existing schedules. ‍

Partnering with the world’s leading electric charging infrastructure and storage providers, Austal can project manage bespoke installations to suit your new ferries and port infrastructure. Start your journey to net zero emissions with Austal’s VOLTA Auto Express range of all-electric fast ferries. Ready to join your fleet, now. ‍

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Efficient vehicle handling and quality interior outfits have set the Austal’s ‘Auto Express’ series of vehicle passenger ferries apart from the competition. As with Austal’s passenger ferries, vessel specifications and powering options are customised to suit operator requirements, with both catamaran and trimaran ferry designs available to carry passengers, cars, trucks and cargo at a range of speeds and in maximum comfort to suit the sea conditions. Hull forms are optimised to ensure maximum fuel efficiency by using advanced design and technology systems.

With dedicated commercial shipbuilding facilities in Balamban, Philippines supported by our global design, innovation and engineering resources, Austal delivers fast, cost effective vehicle passenger ferry solutions to operators, worldwide.

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Meet Austal’s ‘MANTA’ Catamaran Drone Mothership

New catamaran concept aims at including drone and loitering munition support for austal's trademark approach to naval shipbuilding..

Alex Luck 05 Dec 2023

One of the more intriguing concepts visitors could glimpse at Sydney’s Indopacific 2023, which ran from 4th to 6th November, was the “MANTA” drone mothership and multirole catamaran by Henderson, WA-based shipbuilder Austal . The acronym stands for “Multimission Autonomous Network Transporter (Armed)”. “MANTA” is based on Austal’s existing “Expeditionary Fast Transport” (EPF) in service with the US Navy and the “High Speed Vessel” (HSV) built for Oman.

Basic specifications are a length of 78 metres, a beam of 19.3 metres, a crew of 20 and accommodation for a further 30 personnel. The catamaran would be capable of a top speed of 30 knots and a range of up to 2,700 km at 12.5 knots. Propulsion features four 4,300 kW diesel engines driving four waterjets. Living up to a role focus, the “MANTA” drone mothership would offer space for a mission bay including moon pool supporting UUVs, a wide range of containerized and modular weapons options and CEAFAR 2-radar integration. “Manta” features a helicopter landing deck and aviation workshop supporting a Seahawk-type helicopter or helicopter-drones up to MQ-8C-size , but lacks a hangar.

The weapons suggested for “Manta” cover a broad spectrum aimed at antiship and land attack-roles, but also offering robust self defence capability against aerial threats. They include launchers for traditional and Harpy-type loitering munitions, Spike NLOS-type light strike missiles and smaller loitering drones in a variety of combinations. “Manta” can also integrate a RIM-116 RAM-launcher, MASS-type decoy systems and a 35 mm-autocannon on the foredeck.

Illustrating the very wide range of applications, “Manta” optionally also features “The Cube” containerized solutions (by Danish company SH Defence) for mine warfare, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR). A notable emphasis is on the multi-mission bay supporting the deployment of large UUVs via the side doors and smaller drones through a moon pool integrated in the bay.

In conclusion, “Manta” appears to leverage Austal’s proven capacity to develop and field innovative catamaran-type designs applied to current and anticipated threats and roles focusing on drone operation- and multi-mission capability. The design emphasizes an inherent advantage in multihull-type vessels maximizing deck and stowage space while retaining high mobility. Its derivation from existing design and integration of fielded and combat-proven weapon systems should in theory provide a relatively cost-effective design, although engineering challenges in terms of sensor integration and damage control are unknowns at this stage.

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Austal Launches High-speed Ferry for French Polynesia's Degage Group

May 3, 2023

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Shipbuilder Austal Vietnam announced Wednesday that it has launched a new high-speed catamaran built at the company’s shipyard in Vung Tau for the Degage Group of French Polynesia.

The 66-meter Apetahi Express is undergoing final fit-out, prior to sea trials which are due to commence in May. The vessel is scheduled for delivery in June 2023. The new ferry is anticipated to commence operations between Pape’ete (Tahiti) and Vaitape (Bora Bora) in French Polynesia in July 2023.

Austal Limited Chief Executive Officer Paddy Gregg said, “Austal’s latest catamaran design offers operators an impressive looking vessel that is both highly efficient and flexible, with multiple indoor and outdoor decks for passengers and a large cargo space accommodating up to 16 tonnes for high-speed inter-island transportation.”

The new Austal Passenger Express 66 catamaran features a length overall (LOA) of 66.4 meters, beam of 15.2 meters and draft of 1.8 meters. Over two passenger decks, the vessel can accommodate 574 passengers, with an additional 80 seats available on an external sun deck. Crew accommodation includes seven two-berth cabins and two single-berth cabins. The vessel has four passenger access ramps and can carry up to 16 tonnes of cargo loaded via two cranes.

Fitted with four diesel engines and four waterjets, as well as Austal’s renowned Motion Control System (including active interceptors and T-foils) and the latest MARINELINK-Connect program, the new ferry will have a contracted top speed of 35.8 knots and a range of up to 360 nautical miles (excluding a long-range tank, fitted).

Austal has previously designed and built five vessels for The Degage Group, comprising two 69-meter monohull cruise ships, a 56-meter vehicle passenger catamaran ferry, an 80-meter vehicle passenger catamaran ferry and a 49-meter vehicle passenger ferry.

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Austal Delivers Second High Speed Catamaran Ferry

Austal Limited ( Austal ) (ASX:ASB) is pleased to announce it has delivered a second high speed catamaran ferry to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).

Two High Speed Catamaran Ferries docked at Austal Philippines Shipyard

The  contract  for  two 45 metre catamaran  ferries  was  awarded  in  April  2014  and  valued  at approximately $30 million, with the vessel constructed at Austal’s Philippines shipyard.

Austal Chief Executive Officer Andrew Bellamy said the delivery of the second vessel further reinforces Austal’s position to compete in this growth market.

“As this delivery demonstrates, Austal has the right production cost base in the Philippines to compete for commercial vessel contracts and successfully leverage our intellectual property with a proven design,” Mr Bellamy said.

“The capacity and efficiency of our Philippines shipyard proves we are able to meet market demand for this type of vessel. We continue to pursue further opportunities in the Middle East and the energy sector.”

Austal is also building a 57.6m high speed catamaran crew boat for an undisclosed operator based in S.E Asia, for USD$20 million (approximately $26 million) at its Philippines shipyard.

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Austal is a global defence prime contractor and a designer and manufacturer of defence and commercial ships. For more than 25 years Austal has been a leader in the design, construction and maintenance of revolutionary ships for Governments, Navies and Ferry operators around the world. More than 250 vessels have been delivered in that time.

Defence vessels designed and built by Austal include multi-mission combatants, such as the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) for the United States Navy and military high speed vessels for transport and humanitarian relief, such as the Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) for the United States Navy and High Speed Support Vessel (HSSV) for the Royal Navy of Oman. Austal also designs, constructs, integrates and maintains an extensive range of patrol and auxiliary vessels for government agencies globally, including the Cape Class Patrol Boat Program for Australian Customs and Border Protection. Defence vessels are designed and constructed in Mobile, Alabama and in Henderson, Western Australia.

Austal has been at the forefront of the high speed ferry market since the early days of the industry. Our market leading designs of high performance aluminium vessels have long been at the heart of Austal's research and development. Today, commercial ship construction is centred on our shipyard in Balamban, Philippines.

Austal has expertise in integrating complex systems into its ships, including ride control, ship management, and communication, sensors and weapon systems.

Austal provides a wide range of support services, including through life support, integrated logistics support, vessel sustainment and systems support. These services are delivered through our global support network in the USA, Australia, Asia and the Middle East together with partner shipyards worldwide.

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First refuelling for Russia’s Akademik Lomonosov floating NPP

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The FNPP includes two KLT-40S reactor units. In such reactors, nuclear fuel is not replaced in the same way as in standard NPPs – partial replacement of fuel once every 12-18 months. Instead, once every few years the entire reactor core is replaced with and a full load of fresh fuel.

The KLT-40S reactor cores have a number of advantages compared with standard NPPs. For the first time, a cassette core was used, which made it possible to increase the fuel cycle to 3-3.5 years before refuelling, and also reduce by one and a half times the fuel component in the cost of the electricity produced. The operating experience of the FNPP provided the basis for the design of the new series of nuclear icebreaker reactors (series 22220). Currently, three such icebreakers have been launched.

The Akademik Lomonosov was connected to the power grid in December 2019, and put into commercial operation in May 2020.

Electricity generation from the FNPP at the end of 2023 amounted to 194 GWh. The population of Pevek is just over 4,000 people. However, the plant can potentially provide electricity to a city with a population of up to 100,000. The FNPP solved two problems. Firstly, it replaced the retiring capacities of the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant, which has been operating since 1974, as well as the Chaunskaya Thermal Power Plant, which is more than 70 years old. It also supplies power to the main mining enterprises located in western Chukotka. In September, a 490 km 110 kilovolt power transmission line was put into operation connecting Pevek and Bilibino.

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For the first time Rosatom Fuel Division supplied fresh nuclear fuel to the world’s only floating nuclear cogeneration plant in the Arctic

The fuel was supplied to the northernmost town of Russia along the Northern Sea Route.

The first in the history of the power plant refueling, that is, the replacement of spent nuclear fuel with fresh one, is planned to begin before 2024. The manufacturer of nuclear fuel for all Russian nuclear icebreakers, as well as the Akademik Lomonosov FNPP, is Machinery Manufacturing Plant, Joint-Stock Company (MSZ JSC), a company of Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL that is based in Elektrostal, Moscow Region.

The FNPP includes two KLT-40S reactors of the icebreaking type. Unlike convenient ground-based large reactors (that require partial replacement of fuel rods once every 12-18 months), in the case of these reactors, the refueling takes place once every few years and includes unloading of the entire reactor core and loading of fresh fuel into the reactor.

The cores of KLT-40 reactors of the Akademik Lomonosov floating power unit have a number of advantages compared to the reference ones: a cassette core was used for the first time in the history of the unit, which made it possible to increase the fuel energy resource to 3-3.5 years between refuelings, and also reduce the fuel component of the electricity cost by one and a half times. The FNPP operating experience formed the basis for the designs of reactors for nuclear icebreakers of the newest series 22220. Three such icebreakers have been launched by now.

For the first time the power units of the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant were connected to the grid in December 2019, and put into commercial operation in May 2020. The supply of nuclear fuel from Elektrostal to Pevek and its loading into the second reactor is planned for 2024. The total power of the Akademik Lomonosov FNPP, supplied to the coastal grid of Pevek without thermal energy consumption on shore, is about 76 MW, being about 44 MW in the maximum thermal power supply mode. The FNPP generated 194 million kWh according to the results of 2023. The population of Pevek is just a little more than 4 thousand, while the FNPP has a potential for supplying electricity to a city with a population of up to 100 thousand people. After the FNPP commissioning two goals were achieved. These include first of all the replacement of the retiring capacities of the Bilibino NPP, which has been operating since 1974, as well as the Chaunskaya TPP, which has already been operating for more than 70 years. Secondly, energy is supplied to the main mining companies in western Chukotka in the Chaun-Bilibino energy hub a large ore and metal cluster, including gold mining companies and projects related to the development of the Baimsk ore zone. In September 2023, a 110 kilovolt power transmission line with a length of 490 kilometers was put into operation, connecting the towns of Pevek and Bilibino. The line increased the reliability of energy supply from the FNPP to both Bilibino consumers and mining companies, the largest of which is the Baimsky GOK. The comprehensive development of the Russian Arctic is a national strategic priority. To increase the NSR traffic is of paramount importance for accomplishment of the tasks set in the field of cargo shipping. This logistics corridor is being developed due regular freight voyages, construction of new nuclear-powered icebreakers and modernization of the relevant infrastructure. Rosatom companies are actively involved in this work. Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL (Rosatom Fuel Division) includes companies fabricating nuclear fuel, converting and enriching uranium, manufacturing gas centrifuges, conducting researches and producing designs. As the only nuclear fuel supplier to Russian NPPs, TVEL supplies fuel for a total of 75 power reactors in 15 countries, for research reactors in nine countries, as well as for propulsion reactors of the Russian nuclear fleet. Every sixth power reactor in the world runs on TVEL fuel. Rosatom Fuel Division is the world’s largest producer of enriched uranium and the leader on the global stable isotope market. The Fuel Division is actively developing new businesses in chemistry, metallurgy, energy storage technologies, 3D printing, digital products, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. TVEL also includes Rosatom integrators for additive technologies and electricity storage systems. Rosenergoatom, Joint-Stock Company is part of Rosatom Electric Power Division and one of the largest companies in the industry acting as an operator of nuclear power plants. It includes, as its branches, 11 operating NPPs, including the FNPP, the Scientific and Technical Center for Emergency Operations at NPPs, Design and Engineering as well as Technological companies. In total, 37 power units with a total installed capacity of over 29.5 GW are in operation at 11 nuclear power plants in Russia. Machinery Manufacturing Plant, Joint-Stock Company (MSZ JSC, Elektrostal) is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of fuel for nuclear power plants. The company produces fuel assemblies for VVER-440, VVER-1000, RBMK-1000, BN-600,800, VK-50, EGP-6; powders and fuel pellets intended for supply to foreign customers. It also produces nuclear fuel for research reactors. The plant belongs to the TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom.

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