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The Motorship’s Propulsion & Future Fuels is the leading international conference on powering shipping’s emissions-cutting ambitions.
The 2025 Conference will take place from 25th - 27th November in Hamburg, Germany and will offer a meeting place to learn, discuss and knowledge-share the latest developments in efficient power and propulsion technology plus alternative low flashpoint and low carbon fuels.
Piracy Trap a passive non-lethal ship protection measure designed to fit most seagoing vessels.
Piracy Trap a passive non-lethal ship protection measure designed to fit most seagoing vessels.
P-Trap® is a passive non-lethal self protection method against piracy. It is simple and effective in design for defense against pirates. It creates a safety zone around the vessel with floating lines that trap propellers of pirate vessels.
Piracy is a serious problem in the Indian Ocean and off the Somali coast. The problem has been with us in that area for several years now, and it was a far back as 2005 when Lodewijk Westerbeek van Eerten of the Netherlands had an idea for combating it.
Dutch company Westmark informs us that its P-Trap anti-piracy product has been shortlisted in the safety category of the 2011 Lloyd’s List Awards.
The annual Seatrade awards, presented at a dinner at the Guildhall in London on the evening of 4 April, recognised actions to counter the piracy threat as well as the usual technological achievements.
