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Insights tronic controls. • Digitization – The modern vessel is an increasingly com- • Electri? cation – The pressure is on around the globe plex system-of-systems. The propulsion controls, naviga- to clean up the carbon footprint of the marine industry. tion, alarms, hotel services, etc. are increasingly intelligent,

It has been surprising to us just how quickly this trend connected systems. As the primary vessel controls, our sys- has gone from being something of interest, to a strong tem has the potential to be a central hub for information buying driver with operators willing to pay a premium about the vessel. We are currently developing on a vessel for the right technologies. Last year we launched our own monitoring, data logging and IoT system to complement electro-hybrid drive system called EHX. Essentially an in- our products that will allow operators to interrogate their tegration of batteries, electric motors, Diesel engines and journeys and activities in absolute detail from the ship or the system can also be used on an all-electric vessel. We the shore. It even captures data on the movements of ves- were driven to do this after being involved with multiple sels around them through AIS. This will ultimately sup- projects where the detailed integration seemed to be left port productivity optimization, preventative maintenance, to the last minute. We wanted to grasp hold of the whole issue response and accident investigation.

thing and deliver a fully integrated hybrid propulsion sys-

Looking ahead, what are your top priorities for tem that operated in a fully automatic mode, switching the remainder of this year?

between power sources and optimizing the use of electri- cal energy. This product is now available to the market BR: It is looking like a busy year. Sales wise, we have seen and the ? rst installation we did was on our own vessel. We activity increase and we are now approaching pre-COVID bought and converted a 15-meter foiling catamaran called levels. We also have a number of high-pro? le projects in

Aria which is now capable of running 9 knots on electrical the electric and hybrid drive space that will go to order. drive only, diesel only (or charging the batteries) up to 37 We have two new jet model releases (The HTX42 is im- knots, and can boost performance with both together up minent and the HJX27 at the end of 2021) and a ‘lite’ ver- to 42 knots. We deployed Aria up at the Americas Cup sion of our control system called AVXexpress. Finally, we earlier this year as a showcase for what could be achieved will continue our development work with Sea Machines with this technology. Feedback has been superb, in par- on the pilot-assist system and a few other innovations. We ticular how quiet it is when loitering or slow-speed cruis- are excited by the way all these releases will improve the ing on electric-only. operational effectiveness of our customers.

HamiltonJet recently launched the

HTX42 waterjet

HamiltonJet 14 | MN July 2021