UAB Baltic Engineering Centre

The engineering company UAB Baltic Engineering Centre, in daily talk shortened to BEC, was established on 14 October 1999 by Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd. (former front shipyard of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group) and is located in Klaipeda, the biggest seaport city in Lithuania. On 9th of June 2010 the BEC had been sold by Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd. to BLRT Grupp AS.

The BEC Company stands for considerable practical engineering experience within the maritime line of business as its employees come from the former consultant company LIC Ship Engineering Centre in Klaipeda, now closed Design Construction Department in Shipbuilding Yard Baltija and graduated from Lithuanian and Russian Federation Universities. BEC consequently has a very good basics for offering professional and highly competitive engineering services with focus on high quality for reasonable price. The company’s background in international labor and business culture-of witch the best parts of each have been merged-also contribute to enable BEC to give its customers the best services.

 Services offered

The highly skilled and experienced Engineers and Naval Architects of BEC offer their consultant services among the following areas of design and engineering within the area of new building and conversion of ships:

Engineering

• Production drawings
• Hull Structure
• Steel Outfitting
• Accommodation and Interior

• Piping Isometrics and Arrangements
• Engine Room Arrangements and Outfitting
• Technical specification for quotation
• Material Ordering Data

Detailed arrangement drawings, plate/profile nesting and material ordering are prepared and provided by BEC. Through companies providing drawings and documentation of steel and outfitting, BEC offers detailed engineering packages established by recognized 3D/2D software such as Tribon M3 SP5, AutoCAD and Microstation.

Classification design

• Structural Design and Construction
• Piping System Diagrams
• Finite Element Analysis
• Purchasing of Outfitting items
• Outfitting Arrangements

• Weight Calculation and Control
• Machinery Arrangements
• Plan Approval
• Negotiations with Classification Societies

BEC has experience from ship design classified by leading Classification Societies such as DNV, LRS, RR, GL, BV and ABS. For structural analysis, such as Beam/girder and Fine mesh analysis BEC uses the latest versions of the recognized software tool, NISA.

Basic Design

• Technical Specifications
• Fire, Life and Safety plans
• Hydrodynamics Analyses
• Inclining Test and Reports

• Stability Assessments
• Cargo Securing Analysis
• Sea fastening
• Analysis of IMO, IACS, etc. requirements