Working on motor ships equipped with MAN B&W Diesel propulsion units, the chief engineer of Novorossiysk Shipping Company Alexander Shamin has paid attention to problems arising during their exploitation. As it has appeared, the basic cause is non-hermetic high-pressure fuel pumps.

In 1977 fuel pumps were hermetically sealed on the motor ship the General Merkviladze. All problems of the diesel were solved. This is the year when the company Express Diesel Ship Service Limited was actually born, even though there was a long way to go before it was formally established - when the former Soviet republics headed for the market reforms.

As all useful inventions go, highly hermetic valves were not accepted at once. But practical workers became very quickly convinced, that the tightening of fuel pumps according to a method of Alexander Shamin, bring tangible results in fuel and resources economy.

Until 1985, modernization was carried out by pressurization of regular valves of engines; the own construction of a suction valve was developed later.

A group of senior marine engineers and experts of leading ship repair facilities of western pool have founded the Company Express Diesel Ship Service Ltd. in the form of a closed joint-stock company in 1992. June 20 is the birthday of the Company.

Now our company continues to successfully modernize and tune the fuel equipment of the propulsion units made by the MAN B&W Diesel Company and its licensees.