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We touched on this brie? y, but from your experience, can you give insight on additional training needed for the sea- farers to operate these hybrid systems?

It starts with the talent you have avail- able. When we do one of these con- versions, the crew are an integral part of it. They work very closely with the commissioning engineers when they’re out on trials, but we also run additional training modules, too. We’re stepping up that effort, as it’s been very dif? cult during COVID to move people around.

That’s easing up now, but we’re also looking at [adding] virtual training [to the mix with hands-on training].

Also important is that interchange of knowledge and experience between the various vessels that operate hybrid.

Thankfully the issues we’ve had have been mild. We’ve changed out the bat- tery module, but probably the biggest is- sue with changing out battery modules is getting them to the vessel: we can’t ? y them. Normally we keep some spares and we keep them charged to about 30% load so they can just slot in. The physical change out of a module is very easy. But training, especially from safety aspect of operating batteries, is important, and we believe that with the battery management system and energy management systems we have in place, the likelihood of a fault causing a problem is very slight.

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