Interviews – Page 4

  • Hurtigruten’s new expeditionary ships have four engines and two large battery packs (image: Hurtigruten)
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    Hybrid schemes find new technologies for old concepts

    2020-04-01T17:35:00Z

    Hybrid ships are not new. Just over a century before The Motor Ship was first published, the SS Savannah is credited as the being the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. It took 29 days, from 22 May until 20 June 1819 to travel from Savannah, Georgia, in the US ...

  • Stefan Nysjö Vice President, Marine Power Solutions at Wärtsilä. (Picture courtesy of Wärtsilä)
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    Thinking systematically about propulsion: Wärtsilä's Stefan Nysjö

    2020-04-01T17:28:00Z

    Stefan Nysjö, Vice President, Marine Power Solutions at Finnish technology company Wärtsilä, takes stock of previous market transitions over the past century and looks forward with anticipation at changes to come.

  • Wärtsilä’s testing of ammonia as a viable fuel for shipping forms part of its future fuels development programme.
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    Wärtsilä ammonia combustion research progresses

    2020-03-25T21:31:00Z

    Wärtsilä has successfully proven the concept of using ammonia as a fuel, and is moving to test the combustion of ammonia in spark-ignited gas and dual-fuel test engines. The company intends to begin field tests with ship owners as soon as 2022.

  • Panos Koutsourakis, Global Leader Technology, Bureau Veritas.
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    The Marine Fuels for the Motorships of the Future

    2020-03-17T14:11:00Z

    A technical pathway is supporting a new maturity in the debate over available GHG reduction options, writes Panos Koutsourakis, Global Technology Leader at Bureau Veritas.

  • Dorthe Jacobsen was emphatic that regulatory and/or financial incentives would be needed for the industry to meet the IMO's decarbonisation targets.
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    Acting to meet long term objectives

    2020-03-09T21:28:00Z

    Dorthe Jacobsen, the head of emissions reduction, fuel and lubricants at MAN Energy Solutions’ two-stroke business in Copenhagen offers her view of the path to meeting the IMO’s 2050 targets

  • Serge Dal Farra, Global Marketing Director at Total Lubmarine, identified the introduction of satellite navigation and progressive automatization in the engine room as transformational changes during his career.
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    Formulating answers to the industry's lubrication needs

    2020-03-04T10:39:00Z

    Serge Dal-Farra, Global Marketing Director at energy major Total Lubmarine, assesses the post-IMO 2020 regulation and provides insight to a radically changing market.

  • Luca Volta of ExxonMobil noted that it would take at least three months to get a clearer view of the post-IMO 2020 landscape.
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    Navigating a world of changing fuels

    2020-02-10T11:48:00Z

    The Motorship is celebrating its centenary in 2020, and is marking the occasion with a series of interviews with landmark companies that have grown and thrived during previous periods of rapid technological change. Luca Volta, of energy major ExxonMobil, takes stock of recent events, and assesses ExxonMobil’s ...

  • Martial Claudepierre discussed how the introduction of LNG as a fuel for the maritime sector had required the time-consuming development of expertise across the sector. (Credit: Bureau Veritas)
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    Learning from experience

    2020-02-05T15:47:00Z

    Martial Claudepierre, regional general manager of sustainable shipping at Bureau Veritas, tells The Motorship that LNG is likely to remain the solution for sustainable deep sea shipping after 2030

  • Rolf Stiefel, Vice President Sales, WinGD speaking at The Motorship Propulsion and Future Fuels conference in Hamburg last week.
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    This is no time to hesitate

    2019-11-28T10:56:00Z

    Rolf Stiefel, vice-president WinGD, tells The Motorship that meeting the IMO’s 2030 objectives requires urgent action.

  • Stefan Goranov, Program Manager – Hybridisation at engine designer WinGD.
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    The appliance of data science to hybridisation

    2019-09-11T23:40:00Z

    WinGD will upgrade the second test engine in Winterthur to allow the testing and validation of a hybrid system in a “semi-physical” set-up.

  • Captain Richard von Berlepsch shared his thoughts on the 'Sajir' LNG conversion project among other topics.
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    A view from the mountaintop

    2019-07-22T09:39:00Z

    Captain Richard von Berlepsch, Managing Director of Hapag-Lloyd’s Fleet Management arm offered his thoughts to the Motorship in a wide-ranging interview at the shipping company’s Hamburg headquarters.

  • Olav Hansen, Senior Principal Consultant in Lloyd’s Register Risk Management Consulting, is a leading authority on the use of hydrogen and is involved in a number of hydrogen development projects. (Credit: Lloyd's Register)
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    Taking the lead on hydrogen safety

    2019-06-11T05:03:00Z

    Lloyd’s Register is focusing on the safety of using hydrogen as a fuel

  • Kaj Portin noted existing Wärtsilä dual-fuel LNG engines could be retrofitted to run on 10-15% hydrogen "relatively quickly" (credit: Wärtsilä)
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    Wärtsilä hydrogen research bears fruit

    2019-03-18T15:00:00Z

    Kaj Portin, Wärtsilä’s General Manager of Research & Technology Programs, Engines Technology, discussed progress in developing hybrid solutions to use hydrogen in gas or combustion engines.

  • MAN Energy Solutions’ promotion manager for dual-fuelled engines, René Sejer Laursen.
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    MAN Energy Solutions to undertake ammonia study

    2019-03-12T16:52:00Z

    MAN Energy Solutions plans to embark on a risk assessment on the use of ammonia as a gaseous fuel for propulsion in conjunction with classification society DNV GL.

  • Fednav's Federal Bering is an example of Oshima-built bulker optimised for international trade via the St Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes system
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    A shipping company for all seasons: Fednav

    2019-02-21T11:11:00Z

    Fednav is Canada’s largest ocean-going dry bulk shipowning and chartering group. As a ship owner and operator of 75 years standing, Fednav has weathered many previous market and regulatory changes.