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Director of

Naval Architecture, BMT ylvain Julien ? rst trained as a Mechanical Engineer and worked for several years in the special purpose machines sector, serving the aeronautic and automotive industry. In 2007, after completing a naval architecture degree, he joined BMT as

S a naval architect and was appointed director of naval architecture in 2020.

Julien has gained extensive experience in the naval architecture of various specialized vessels during his time at BMT, including workboats, motoryachts, high speed ferries and patrol boats, as well as a wide variety of hull forms such as monohulls, catamarans,

SWATHs, hydrofoils and hovercrafts. He understands the need to continually develop and keep up to date with a wide base of technical knowledge across disciplines to best answer for customer requirements. In his current role, Julien is responsible for the team that delivers vessel front end design across the various sectors served by

BMT Specialized Ship Design, and he looks after the business development and project delivery for the commercial sector.

Here, Julien discusses the digitalization, decarbonization and autonomous trends driving ferry design.

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