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PROFILE: ARDMORE SHIPPING "We don't have to tell you “It’s making a difference, and we can see them picking up whether a [new the mantle and coming up with ideas,” said Noonan, telling them “there's no point in telling me what you could have done yesterday, tell me what you can do tomorrow. You're trying technology] to get across to the seafarers that they're not there to support us, we're there to support them. At the end of the day, it's a shipping company. Without ships, without seafarers, none of works or not; us would have a job. If you have 900 people looking for a prob- lem, you'll see a lot more avenues for generating savings then you just have to you will if it was just 10-12 people in the of? ce.”

Whether it’s hardware or software, Noonan stresses that each technology in and of itself must pass muster regarding look at whether

Return on Investment to make it on the Ardmore ? eet. “Every project has to stand on its own two feet,” said Noonan. “One of the things you can be sure with Ardmore is, if it works on we've bought one vessel, it'll be on all of them. So we don't have to tell you whether a [technology] works or not; you just have to look at whether we've bought one of them or bought 22 of them." one of them or

Future Tech Fuel Savers

When looking at the myriad of new technologies available, 22 of them." from wind sails to air lubrication and everything in between,

Noonan is pragmatic, noting that for its vessel size, the ROI on some of the newer technologies can run seven to eight years, not particularly attractive given the Ardmore ? eet generally

Garry Noonan, works with the oil majors, meaning Ardmore's ships generally

Director, Innovation, have a 15-year life-cycle with the company.

“our ships have a life cycle of 15 years; so having a ? ve-

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