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Widening involves the (1) cutting of a containership into four big sections: Cuts are made across the width directly ahead of the superstructure, lengthwise along the midsection from the superstructure to the bow, and ahead of the bow itself. (2) The sections are pulled apart. (3) The resulting gap is closed with pre-produced sections. can be charged by the main engine during the crossing. With this, shore-power is re- dundant. Recently a pilot-installation on a large Scandlines ferry has been equipped with this technology and the ? rst results are in.

The four Scandline ferries, on the route

Puttgarden to RØdby, feature hybrid pro- pulsions. A total of 25 million EUR have been paid to remove one of the ? ve ex- isting diesel engines, replaced with 399

Siemens-Accumulators with a total pow- er of 2.7 MW hours. They will not be re- charged on-shore but at sea by the diesel engines. “By this the fuel consumption is reduced by around 15 to 20 percent,” said

Siemens Director Stefan Kraus. The die- sel engine exhaust gases are cleaned on top with scrubber by up to 90 percent.

However, several pre-conditions are lacking to ensure fully electrical propul- sion. The problem: the 142m long ferries have a port time of only 15 minutes. Fehm- arn does not feature, for the time being, a

The R5 SUPREME System can also be installed as strong and powerful power grid to recharge

R5 SUPREME a combined AIS and Navigation system, using one or the batteries during this short time.

multiple CDU’s. The CDU can act as both AIS MKD

NETWORKED AIS FOR SOLAS “The state of Schleswig-Holstein is and Navigation system at the same time.

open minded and can easily imagine to

AND ADVANCED APPLICATIONS construct the necessary power connec-

The SAAB R5 SUPREME It fully utilise our ? fth genera- tion,” said a speaker of the state.

AIS system is designed for tion transponder technology,

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SOLAS vessels and advan- building on the success of

NSB Group Innovation ced applications such as the R4 AIS system, which is

Secure Warship AIS. in operation in over 20.000

Wider is Better ships worldwide.

At the shipping company NSB Group, based in Buxtehude, Germany, the em- phasis is on the optimization of the “Overall-System-Ship.” This optimiza- www.marinelink.com 57

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