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MARINE DESIGN BASJAN FABER, CEO, C-JOB will insist that ‘the team’ is the corner- “Perhaps most importantly, it inspires stone of success, in Faber’s case the our team and inspires the atmosphere for statement is genuine. new hires; they see that you are invest- “We are not managed from the top ing in the company and the future.” down,” is how Faber easily describes his While the opening of the Houston of- company, explaining that the DNA and ? ce was a strategic point for the com- culture of C-Job is one that inspires free- pany in an opening of the Americas in thinking and entrepreneurship, much general, the physical opening was the like he learned from is parents. “We give culmination of working in the market a lot of responsibility to our team to talk for years, getting to know the client to the industry, develop their skills and base, the projects and the opportunities.

to help develop new solutions.” “We have been building our business

To that end, in the never-ending quest and contacts in the U.S. for three years,” for technical talent, C-Job is not looking said Faber. “One of the focus markets we merely to hire employees, it is constantly have here (in the Netherlands) is dredg- on the search for innovative individuals ing, so that’s where we started. But the that are ready, able and enabled to de- opportunities in the U.S., and through- velop and create solutions on their own, out the Americas, go far beyond dredg- seeking and delivering business oppor- ing. There is offshore wind, the cruise tunities to the company. and ferry industries, and super yachts.

The C-Job DNA ? ows The Houston of? ce is simply a spin-

C-Job Naval beyond the company walls off of all the business that we already

Architects Offshore and throughout industry, as have in the U.S. It’s logical to make that

Wind Installation

Faber is an ardent supporter step.” While expansion in the U.S. was a

Vessel ‘Orion’ Render of collaboration to foster logical one, Faber assures us “it will not strength and growth. “You be the last!”

Photos: C-Job can achieve more by col- While the need for emission reduction laboration. If you’re throw- solutions gains steam throughout the ing up fences to protect maritime world, Faber and C-Job were yourself, I don’t think it gives you the pioneers. “When we started the business best future,” said Faber. “We believe in in 2007, there were no projects for LNG open source so outsiders can help to op- (as a fuel), for example. Things have timize the solutions. But there must be quickly changed with pressure to lower some caution, too, as this is idealistic. emissions. Since 2011/12, LNG became

We need to have a return on investment, a hot topic, and nowadays in every proj- and we can’t have people simply taking ect, LNG is considered or applied.” (See our ideas and making them their own.” sidebar on the Texelstroom ferry project

The key in Faber’s reckoning is trust, on page 38).

as he seeks insight from anywhere he Though LNG is growing in popular- can ? nd it, including potential competi- ity, C-Job sees it as a transition fuel, tors. An example of this is a Memoran- and is investing research dollars in the dum of Understanding signed in No- future tech and fuels that will power vember 2018 with Glosten. “In Glosten maritime’s future. “Our R&D efforts are we found a partner with mutual trust and focused on how we will do things in 10 chemistry and an atmosphere of collabo- years, 20 years from now. For example ration,” said Faber. “The main focus of we’ve just ? nished a study on the appli- our collaboration is to prepare for the cation of ammonia as a future fuel,” said offshore wind energy business in the Faber. He, like most, agree that there is

U.S.” no single ‘silver bullet’ to answer the de- carbonization challenge, rather a mix of technologies including fuel, battery tech

The Path Ahead

The maritime industry is in the midst and innovations in sail and renewable process and approach of how a design is the client, not C-Job, that owns the of transcendent transformation, as a energies. “We’ve done a study on the comes together (more ef? ciently); ships intellectual property of the ? nal design. host of increasingly stringent emission implication of Rotor Sails (wind pow- and boats that were purpose designed “We don’t have a library of common regulations coupled with the accelerat- er), which is an easy-to-use solution, but and built in tandem with the customer. solutions and vessels, we work closely ing advance of technology in general, it’s very route speci? c, it’s not for every “From the beginning we were thinking with our clients to co-create our de- digitalization in particular, is literally vessel. In the Baltic and certain Atlantic about how we can do things different- signs,” said Faber. While he admits that changing the look and performance of routes it is very applicable. The use of ly,” said Faber. “The maritime industry “this is completely different than what is ships and boats at sea. Faber said that C- the Rotor Sails goes hand in hand with is rather traditional with many family traditional,” he said the business model

Job is increasingly engaged in Research better route planning to optimize.” owned and long-existing businesses, and demands mutual trust among all par- and Development projects, with an eye Optimizing the route is what Basjan we simply said ‘we think we can do bet- ties, and is popular with C-Job clients on where the industry will be moving Faber and his growing team do best, ter and bring it to the next level.’” and prospects. “The most important at- in the next 10 to 20 years. He said the navigating the ups and downs, ins and tributes of C-Job (to our clients) is that investment is valuable on a number of outs of the ever-changing maritime

The C-Job DNA we are an independent of? ce, we’re a levels, least of not which is developing landscape. But today the young, con? -

One of the biggest differentiators in knowledgeable, innovative and we have future technology to raise not only his dent CEO has his hand on the throttle the C-Job model is the fact that, when a passionate team.” business, but the industry as a whole. and it’s ‘Full Steam Ahead.’ a project is developed and delivered, it While nearly every corporate leader www.marinelink.com 37

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