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Editorial ’ll never forget the “Hinge Ship,” a vessel concept If someone would have told me 20 years ago that ships would

Joseph Fonseca - India

Claudio Paschoa - Brazil that was designed to transform from a traditional be designed to generate and ? oat on their own ? eld of bubbles,

Peter Pospiech - Germany deep draft hull to a ? at bottom inland waterways hull I would have thought it crazy. But with new an ever-tightening

Production courtesy of an innovative “hinge” found on the bottom emission regulation and the resultant detailed analysis of

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Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] of the vessel. I do forget the exact edition on which designing hulls to cut through the water more ef? ciently, this

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News, but I will never forget the cavalcade of comments from Another idea many dub ‘crazy’ is the notion of Unmanned

Information Technology near and far essentially questioning my mental stability for Ships. While I think it safe to say it will be a long time in

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Emin Tule giving the concept such prominent play. Lo and behold, the coming, as most everything seems to be in maritime, trust masses were indeed correct and there are not massive ? eets when I say that autonomy on the waterways will do nothing

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