15,000 TEU AMMONIA CONTAINERSHIP 000 TEU Containership the problematic area of adding carbon like you have with other alternative fu- “Safety has been at the els. When you start to add components center of the design, and into that, carbon is one of the most dif- it will continue to be so ? cult ones
REPAIR Photo courtesy Marine and Industrial Transmissions STERN TUBE DAMAGE DECLINING? It might be easy to blame EALs, but the ongoing causes of stern tube damage are varied, and possibly declining. By Wendy Laursen nvironmentally Acceptable lubricants (EALs) gained market traction with the introduction
MATTHEW HART, MANAGER & PLATFORM LEADER, MARINE & STATIONARY POWER SYSTEMS, WABTEC fuel blends up to 100% are in operation maintenance intervals to make sure that What’s the biggest challenge today, running on both biodiesel and re- our engines don’t have to be touched in your job? newable diesel blends.
MARKETS FPSO technology dominates the region’s FPS demand. duction and storage of low and zero emission energy carriers, In all, 18 countries in West and East Africa are expected such as methanol and ammonia. One exciting development to receive new FPSOs, FLNGs and FPUs between 2024 and leverages
THE PATH TO ZERO Methanol’s Superstorage Solution Technical inquiries to SRC Group ramped up after it received Approval in Principle (AIP) for a concept which ‘reinvented methanol fuel storage’ on board ships. Delivering the answers has seen technical talk converting into project discussions
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Feature Passenger Vessel Safety ? re risk and related technical issues. Canada: Transport Canada.” In the U.S., last February, the Coast Guard issued a Another top issue, just as in the U.S. – workforce re- Marine Safety Alert: “Saltwater intrusion causes damage cruitment, which he called a “key issue for
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FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND GAZELLE WIND POWER We’re already working on the pre-FEED, and now we’re go- clude 70 turbines of 15MW each, and has preselected Gazelle ing to be working on the engineering portion. Our main goal as one of the providers for the offshore wind platform. So, is to prove the concept
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Power Knot Kirsch, Area Manager for Advanced Wastewater Treatment vent its discharge. President Iain Milnes started working with at RWO, says that the CleanSewage Membrane Reactor (CS- Carnival Corporation 10 years ago on the management of its MBR) system’s submerged ultra? ltration membranes remove
example, Wärtsilä piloted a new ultra-low-emis- rine gasoil due to higher LNG costs, and Wasaline was able sions version of its Wärtsilä 31DF engine aboard the ship to to cut total CO2 emissions by 51.8% (calculations based on help prove the technology before bringing it to market. On a data from 2022 and
ROY CAMPE, CTO, CMB.TECH But as important as the growth required to service the equipment, it from electric to charging to the fnal within the company is key, so too is could stretch and break all of the back- audits. the growth externally in the form of end support needed to run a smooth “It’s very
MEET THE CTO emission target. “We decided it’s better to have 3 vessels with dual For the largest ships in the CMB fuel than to have one zero-emission vessel [with ? eet, the focus is on ammonia, as it is no market]. [A zero-emission vessel is] often a cheapest from a production point of white elephant
MEET THE CTO has grown to 90 people across several something that is scalable.” fuels, resulting in an overall reduction world regions, and this technical talent Next the CMB.TECH team targeted of 65% of traditional fuel consump- base is central to Campe completing the Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) used
ROY CAMPE, CTO, CMB.TECH “I was amazed that these ships have “They said, ‘Oh, Roy, it’s so dif? cult ran into, and crossed his ? rst hurdle: such big engines, that they consume to predict.’ To which I said ‘I’ve done attracting the technical talent that he so much fuel, but that it was so very
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and have quality products throughout. I know your business is driven by multiple mar- kets – defense, offshore energy and science –but let’s start on the defense business as it’s most A big part of that equation is technology, but an topical given the various geopolitical con? icts. equally big part
Ruhl. Successful applicants will also have access to technicians and techni- cal support working in collaboration with ap- plicants and developers to get their technology integrated so that it can be evaluated. It’s about helping companies and technolo- gists navigate the aforementioned long-run- ning challenge
lows us to undertake more science. More science means more I recognize I have given the characteristically “political” understanding of our ocean and this is a good thing. When we view here; the pro’s, the con’s and no de? nitive answer. Let step into the world of data visualization through AI then
into force in 1958, and only gave the IMO broad and, vague tion. But shipbuilders, oil companies, miners, chemical man- powers “to deal with” the regulation and practices “relating ufactures and others with huge ? nancial stakes in shipping, to technical matters of all kinds affecting shipping in inter-
53 m (4-tier) Width About 15 m Sail material Fiber Reinforced Plastic MOL W IND apanese maritime companies historically have said that Shofu Maru is the result of an eight-year Joint maintained strong leadership in both maritime Industry Project (JIP) with academia, including four years technologies