Mauric

From MAURIC’s original activity, ship design, we developed a large range of services related to our core competences: Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

Our skilled and experienced team is at your side through every step of your project from first technical specifications up to sea trials and maintenance operations. We offer a full range of services from ship design, marine engineering studies, ship performance assessment, technical assistance, shipyard survey and project contracting for system integration onboard marine and naval platforms.

MAURIC is not only providing drawings, we design ships that sails all over the world. As a consequence, we are involved from the basic design stage up to the detailed engineering studies of the project.
The shipbuilding know-how of our company allows MAURIC’s highly qualified and experienced engineers, naval architects and draughtmen to provide services for the detailed design of vessels and floating objects.

After the basic design stage, MAURIC can focus on technical aspects, building process and detailed engineering studies. MAURIC team can follow the process of detailed structure engineering up to the delivery of assembly kits, ready for production and manage the installation of major equipment on board the vessel. MAURIC delivers execution plans and assembly booklets with nomenclatures to the shipyards in charge of the building of the vessel.
Our team can also provide project management and technical support to both shipyards and owners, in order to contribute to the success of the project. Depending on the requirement of the construction shipyard, we adapt our scope of supply for project efficiency, maintaining our control on the complete ship project to ensure vessel’s performances up to the sea trials.
MAURIC also provides marine engineering services to maritime industry and shipyards for ship modernization or modification’s projects, system integration or installation of equipment and special features into the vessel in the most optimized way.

We offer marine engineering services for specific projects of System Integration(specific types of propulsions & propellers, deck cranes or winches with particular specifications, communication systems, weapons systems…) on board existing or new vessels. Shipyards or equipment suppliers can entrust us for taking care of detailed engineering studies in perfect collaboration with their teams. This know-how and capacity of detailed engineering allows us to offer beyond ships, miscellaneous floating equipment such as floating pontoons or floating gates. Indeed, in addition to naval architecture competences, the design of such equipment requires high skills in marine engineering for detailed piping definition selection of equipment (hydraulics, electrical components, etc…) and structure design in order to guarantee the resistance of the equipment in various environmental and accidental conditions or even in case of earthquake.

Since its founding in 1945, MAURIC is at the forefront of innovation in Naval Architecture and Ship Technology.
MAURIC is involved in Research and Development since its creation by André Mauric, the well-known naval architect and sailor.
André Mauric was highly passionate by both sailing yachts and fast patrol boats and thanks to long time of drawing and experiencing of new solution, the naval architect founded new ship design concepts enabling better performances, speed and seakeeping. He always mixed creation and design with a scientific approach of the projects. That’s why he won many regattas and was awarded by the Architecture Academy. When the time of the retirement arrived in the 80’s he succeeded in leaving his creative and researcher DNA in the company, that is always at theforefront of innovation.
Since, we’re still involved in research programs, linked either to or .

During the past decades, numbers of Research & Development financed programs have been led by MAURIC’s team such as ARPEGE, SOS STABILITE, OPTIPECHE, the Zero-Emission Fishing Training Vessel,…,working on solutions to improve seakeeping, stability, safety at sea… related to naval, passenger, inland or fishing vessels. Our engineers and naval architects are always looking for new challenges to improve their skills and to create new concepts of performant vessels.
MAURIC team can be involved in designing new ship design concepts, evaluating new materials and technologies to create solutions ahead of the demand (LNG bunkering vessel, hybrid ships, new type of trawlers, SWATH or SWASH, etc…).

Our three main axes of development are:

• Hydrodynamics, with the development of innovative hull form concepts, hull form optimization, using experimental or numerical tools,
• Propulsion and energy systems for vessels, with works on gas fuelled vessels, hydrogen fuelled vessels, hybrid vessels, Zero-Emission vessels such as SHYPER for hydrogen fuelled fishing vessels or SHERPAZ collaborative development of LNG bunkering vessels,
• Smart and autonomous ships with the development of automatization on board professional and naval vessels, the integration of autonomous systems and unmaned vehicles on board, and the design of autonomous vessels and naval unmaned vehicles, in particular with Exail.

The aim of MAURIC is to continue research and development in Naval Architecture and Ship Technology for safer, greener, efficient and more economic vessels meeting future needs of shipowners.

MAURIC offers System Integration services to ship owners and equipment suppliers from ship survey expertise, detailed engineering studies up to complet project contracting.
As the vessel and its systems are nowadays more and more complex, integration of new equipment on board without impact on the vessel’s performances or its safety becomes one significant activity of MAURIC’s team.

Thanks to his strong know-how in shipbuilding and experienced team, MAURIC provides System Integration services, in order to study and conduct projects of integration of major equipment on board existing naval and professional vessels.

Upgrading a crane, adding a deck equipment or updating communications or weapon systems on board a vessel is not an easy project as it is necessary to check that the performance of the vessel will not be reduced (stability, seakeeping, speed, etc.) and to ensure to the owner that the new equipment will be fully operational at sea. As a consequence, our team studies not only how to modify the vessel for her new system but also guarantees that the modified vessel will still match with the owner’s requirement about its operability and reliability. We rely for this activity on our competences in naval architecture and marine engineering but also on network of partners for specific works.

A true value-added service for shipowners and equipment suppliers, by MAURIC.
The System Integration Services of MAURIC can allow us to provide to shipowners or equipment suppliers a team of experienced supervisors and project managers.

They have the skills and tools to make ship surveys (and even proceed to 3D scan of existing equipment or ship’s structure), evaluate the configurations and then manage the project from the design phase to the specifications of tasks, schedule management, tests and delivery of the work. Our scope of supply can vary from detailed engineering studies up to complete project contracting depending on our customers’ requirements.