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case is different. The Exhaust Gas Re- circulation is really interesting (and in the two-stroke sector available exclu- sively on the MAN D&T engines). EGR reduces NOx to a compliant level – from a Tier II to a Tier III level – by re-cir- culating the exhaust gas without losing your fuel ef? ciency.

That said, it is fair to assume that environmental regulations will get even stricter, a challenge for all. From the MAN D&T perspective, what is the biggest challenge?

The grand theme for us is ‘de-carbon- ization.’ The demand for ship owners to reduce CO2 is only going to grow, and we have to have the technology to help them de-carbonize. We can do this through new technologies like EGR, but we can also do this through the introduc- tion of products that run ef? ciently on alternative fuels.

We also, as a company, made an in- vestment in Aspin Kemp, a leading

Bjarne Foldager, MAN Diesel & Turbo’s company in maritime battery technolo-

Vice President, Sales & Promotion gies. So the question now is how can we combine the use of batteries with big two-stroke engines to reduce the CO2 footprint? You probably will not see a battery replacing a two-stroke engine in the near future, due to its sheer size. But maybe there is a way to combine these technologies.

Another trend is obviously the move toward better using data to improve operations. What is MAN

D&T doing in this regard?

The two big drivers are de carboniza- tion and digitization. The use of data is opening new business models, as ship owners are requesting ways to reduce the

OPEX of the ship, the cost of overhaul, including the prediction of maintenance and parts. That involves extracting and using data to predict things. I think what we need as an industry is a platform, similar to an iPhon iOS if you will, that serves a secure platform to transmit data between ship, shore and service provid- ers, a platform to address cyber security concerns and to deliver applications and algorithms that can help ship owners reduce costs by using predictive main- tenance. But it all starts by tackling the cyber security issue.

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