We, The TTSP-ians

By: Vance Madelo    The Tsuneishi Technical Services Philippines, Inc. (TTSP) detail designing activities of ship’s piping systems generally cover essential piping systems such as the ship’s fixed fire extinguishing systems and water/fire extinguishing systems for most type of ships. However, the bulk of its piping detail design activities are applied in merchant vessels, particularly, but not limited to piping systems of machinery, hull, deck, interior and accommodation sections of Tankers and Bulk carriers. The general piping design service of TTSP comprises the groups under which, are teams with specific design specializations under the broader scope of a ship’s general piping systems. These teams’ piping detail design specializations fall under the Machinery Piping group, Accommodation Piping group and finally, the Hull Piping group - all of which work in continuous collaboration with each other during the design process.

By: Vance Madelo Situated at the northwestern part of Cebu province and with a pool of engineering and drafting professionals in its employ, Tsuneishi Technical Services, Phils. is the chief ship designer in the Philippines. It has steadily been growing from a humble beginning of eight (8) initial employees in 1992 to over 400 design engineers, draftsman, office staffs, drivers and maintenance personnel combined as for this writing. What most people are wrong about is that they usually associate TTSP as a shipbuilding company. It is not. Though it is an affiliate or sister company of the Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Company (TSC) in Hiroshima, Japan, it only designs merchant ships to supplement the said mother company. It specializes in detail designs of bulk carriers, tankers and other ocean-going vessels. It is also involved in designing details of engineering, manufacturing, oil and biogas plants. Currently, it has plans of gradually expanding its workforce, capability, and office...