Maritime design and consultancy
With a rich heritage of excellence, we’re world leaders in providing ship design and technical consultancy across the maritime sector, including defence, offshore energy, commercial shipping and yachts.
With a rich heritage of excellence, we’re world leaders in providing ship design and technical consultancy across the maritime sector, including defence, offshore energy, commercial shipping and yachts.
Key contact
Head of Business Development
Southampton, UK
+44 (0)23 8022 6655 ship-design@bmtglobal.comOur global network of talented experts allows us to offer a diverse range of complimentary, internationally available services, from award-winning ship design to over 50-years of design experience and operational consultancy advice in coastal infrastructure projects, including ship simulation and training and surveys, audits and technical inspections. We further provide investment support for new coastal infrastructure and specialised related services such as environmental modelling to support dredging operations.
Our global network is underpinned by in-country knowledge and sovereign capability so that we retain control over the skills, technology, intellectual property, financial resources and infrastructure that underpin those capabilities within region.
It’s thanks to our world-renowned design and engineering capabilities that we’re continually trusted by vessel owners, port operators, shipbuilders, and suppliers alike.
Our commitment to innovation underpins our pedigree as market-leading independent experts, delivering to you tailored and efficient solutions that consistently exceed expectations.
We are a global ship design business with over 300 vessels in service across the world.
We have extensive experience in the design of steel, aluminium and advanced composite vessels and a proven design pedigree for structures that are lightweight, robust, easy to construct and maintain, and fatigue-resistant, thanks to our close attention to detail.
We provide cargo, nautical, and technical services and cover various marine and non-marine specialisms.
We offer a broad range of surveys, audits and certifications to promote safety and operational efficiency.
By providing investment and planning support throughout the initial stages of infrastructure development, we help you build future growth on solid foundations.
We provide vital consultant engineering services, including complete project management from conception to completion for marine, port, and coastal projects.
Our risk-free, accurate and reliable simulations of ship handling, convenience and mooring help port design, port access operations assessment, navigation risk analysis and crew training.
View our database of ships designs
When progress in technologies provides only a marginal gain in reducing operating costs and environmental footprint, should the traditional ferry paradigm be challenged once more?
Artificial intelligence has for decades been rumoured to revolutionise ship design and change the ways we work forever. However, apart from improving Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools, the creation of general ship arrangements is relatively the same as in the 1980s.
The requirement to reduce maritime emissions in the next decade has brought this reality ever closer; it is not something to drop into the pending tray. If we do not make plans now, we stand little chance of even scratching the surface of the targets.
One of the most significant challenges of warship procurement is the need to keep pace with technological developments and changing strategic contexts.
Submarines are designed for a service life of more than 25 years. Therefore, they need to be designed to meet the needs of tomorrow as well as today, which means a flexible operational capability and increased importance on areas such as sustainability and climate resilience in design.
Independent design capability is at the heart of Australia’s sovereign defence industrial base, the locally based industry which enables the Australian Defence Force to defend Australia and its national interests and advance Australia's security and prosperity.
Over the past twelve months, our vessel designs have received multiple awards across a variety of markets.
BMT’s latest passenger ferry, designed for Kitsap Transit in the United States, has successfully completed sea trials and is ready to start operation in the next few weeks. The ENETAI out-performed design requirements during vessel trials, delivering to Kitsap Transit; a lighter, faster, and smoother riding vessel.
Industry insights about ferry designs at the forefront of innovation: TV interview with Sylvain Julien, Director of Naval Architecture , BMT and Greg Trauthwein of Maritime Reporter TV
Designing a vessel for a pioneering offshore wind project in Japan requires BMT to work to new rules
The contract consists of capability and cost trade studies in critical areas, investigation of options to maximize affordability and producibility, and development of a concept design.
Our marine surveyors and consultants have cemented a global standing as one of the world's top ‘maritime tech’ consultancies.
State-of-the-art designs for the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company’s new passenger and cargo vessels designed by BMT are revealed for the first time.
In cutting-edge trials BMT conducts its first-ever remote, simulator-based ship navigation training programme – the latest REMBRANDT digital configuration is a full mission DNV approved ship simulator solution that’s targeted at multiple training stakeholders, including those onboard and ashore, and benefits from de-risked and highly immersive learning environments.
This latest contract for a key government customer further builds on BMT’s existing partnership with MST.
BMT will deliver its first REMBRANDT® DNV Class A, B and C Full Mission Bridge Simulator at a Maritime Academy in Sabah, following a successful roll out of the technology to numerous academies across the Indonesian market.
