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HYDRO
LANCE
CORPORATION HISTORY STATUS and
FUTURE: Copyright@2012-2005, Hydro Lance Corporation, All Rights Reserved. . |
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MISSION Demonstration, application / mission design, construction and commercial development shared with licensed or partner operations, for the production and operations of high force sea-state ultra-stable, high-speed, ecologically friendly, fuel efficient, low wake, shallow draft marine transport vessels of heavy or light displacement tonnage HISTORY (Underlined phrases are mostly hyperlinks to pictures, information or other pages.)
One such operating half ton, 27 foot long scale model, was taken to open waters and demonstrated. This was both impressive and video taped. Research and development work was then contracted for verification by outside engineers, technicians, and a national Naval Architecture and Engineering firm. Designs were virtually (computer) tested, through "7-seas computers" simulations as early as 1986 - for every conceivable stress variation, at every possible speed and heading. The results just got better, and more refined. This Hydro Lance Technology was named H.A.R.T.H. tm (High Aspect Ratio Twin Hull), and is often shortened to simply, HARTHtm. The HARTH Technologytm was completed in 2000, at a cost of 3.8 Million Dollars. Investment came from private party Angels and principals. Refinements and application design continues in preparation for market entry anticipated in 2010. The Company
originally formed to accomplish research, development and
demonstration for commercialization . Since 2000,
the Company has been engaged in ongoing design development ,
HARTH Architectural and Engineering management, market research
and project preparedness. This has been assigned to a
subsidiary; Hydro Lance Engineering, Inc. The parent
licensing
authority is the Hydro-Lance Corporation, and has the
responsibility for
capital infusion, joint venture partnerships and
licensing
to and with interested and capable parties. FUTURE Conversions of certain existing ships are now being considered (see site directory), as the first economic step, since significant construction cost savings may be realized. Contact our offices for further details. License or Joint Venture. The capability, mission targeted markets and other criteria of an interested partner, or other qualified entity for license, is very important to the Company - and this early client study period would result with an agreement, market application, design, A&E, construction, operations analyses, capitalization, resources and an agreed upon joint phased completion for project execution.
Should your organization have such a
joint venture
interest, then please do contact us and provide us with
such important additional information. This information then begins a dialog to form the bases for definition of the ship's design, appearance, architecture and engineering, as well as the client's relationship with Hydro Lance Corporation. Once the Joint Venture or Licensed Company has successfully completed the first mission-defined HARTH ship to operations and profit, additional like ships may be capitalized through public participation, profits, or private finance to meet known market demands. The process progresses by phased completion of A&E, construction and sea-trials, just the same as for any ship being considered. Construction or assembly may be contracted with a ship yard of mutual selection for completion. Vessel operations carries license specific and exclusive to the client's targeted market. Status: The
company anticipates a major commercial build program beginning during the
first quarter of 2011. The high freeway cruising speeds of Hydro-Lance HARTH ships, may suggest that two smaller vessels may be more wisely constructed, than one large ship. For example, the distance from Los Angeles to Honolulu, is approximately 2,300 nautical miles, but is only 30 hours or less of transport time in a Hydro-Lance ship. Consider, with added horsepower, that such transport time could be reduced even further, to say, 24 hours! This is possible as the hull-speed of the HARTH vessel is substantially higher than numbers herein discussed. That's quite different from the typical five (5) days required on today's cruise or cargo ships - one way. Instead of one large ship, perhaps two smaller vessels, would increase efficiency and market flexibility, since each ship could make three or more round trips per week (three-five total round trips). Would the ship be designed with sleeping facilities, or simply plush reclining seats? Passenger prices may necessarily, have to compete with the airlines (and could easily), rather than cruise ship prices. SEE MARKET FERRY STUDY SUMMARY What percentage of the ship would be designed for passengers, versus cargo or freight, casino gaming, mega power yachts, cable ships, trawlers, containers, medical, fuel & oil, CNC, Live Stock or other specialty and commerce requirements? This equates to revenue, economics and transport profit, and must first be studied before the specific ship application is designed. Would Los Angeles to Honolulu be the only destination, or is the ship to go on to Asia? One only 22 foot cargo container brings revenue of approximately $2,600 to $3,500 depending on the economy, from Japan to California , and is a high volume shipping market. However, the trip back to Japan, or Asia, from the U.S., is a low volume shipping market, and the prices or revenue realized for each container are different, if not significantly lower. Even then, the higher speeds and economies could favorably impact cargo volume, as compared to slower ships and air transport. All of these variables are sorted out during the initial project study phase.
COSTS The cost of the feasibility study is part of architectural and engineering costs, estimated with total costs. Actual total turn-key construction costs cannot be accurately known until the architecture and engineering phases are completed for any specific vessel design. Since the Hydro Lance has approximately 30% more area of skin and ribs, we project that the material and construction costs, beyond the first like ship, may have about the same percentage of certain cost differences, then having lower costs in mass modular-production, as compared with a conventional ship build. Depending on the design, features, luxury levels, the economy and selected constructing ship-yard, a capital cost of approximately $11,000 to $22,000 per displacement ton of ship constructed, is a "thumb nail" range estimate of the first mission specific HARTH blue-water class ship - from womb to operational status, depending on customer requirements and custom variables. The variables of the mission statement, the 'luxury factor' of interior design of each application and client, and other technical variables make a more accurate cost/price estimates impossible to make, until the Architectural and Engineering phase of each ship is completed. This is, of course, the same for any new conventional type ship to be constructed. Noteworthy is that a conversion, made from certain types of existing vessels, could save up to half of this cost (See Conversions), or more. In either case of capital costs, the three to five times increase of transport speed, up to seven times the fuel economies, ultra-stability and with shorter turn-around times, may translates to three to five times the cargo and passengers transported, with the revenues thus realized - in the same time period as one conventional ship would reach it's first port-of-call...and do so without passenger sea-sickness. The rules of ocean transport are now being changed forever. Sharing this benefit through participant Licenses , the new markets opened from this technology, is about to provide many opportunities for a new era of profits at every operational level.
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