MN 100: Elliott Bay Design Group
The Company:
Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) is a Seattle-based, employee-owned enterprise with offices in New Orleans and Ketchikan that provides full-service naval architecture, marine engineering and production support to owners, operators and shipyards worldwide. The firm’s extensive project portfolio spans a number of vessel types including barges, tugs, offshore vessels, ferries, passenger vessels, and workboats, and encompasses unique projects from lofting art installations and high-end yacht hulls to one-off service vessel designs and structures. EBDG selectively applies state-of-the-art technologies to help our clients navigate these myriad challenges.
The Case:
EBDG is passionate about ship design. At any given time, one of its vessels is under construction or entering service; a testimony to the exemplary skill of its designers, among the best in the business. A collaborative approach and responsiveness to what its clients need is what sets them apart. Notably, EBDG recently helped long-time partner Moran Towing Corporation secure a U.S. Patent for “Articulated conduit systems and uses thereof for fuel gas transfer between a tug and barge.”
(As published in the August 2015 edition of Marine News - http://magazines.marinelink.com/Magazines/MaritimeNews)