Interviews

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

ALTERNATIVE FUELS & LUBRICANTS

The future fuels to be used by the maritime industry is hotly debated as waves of regulation look to enforce decarbonisation in the sector. In the 2-stroke market, the largest players have…

18th September 2024

WinGD’s “focus on ammonia” in future fuel race

18th September 2024

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

As the maritime industry faces increasing pressure to decarbonise, companies like ABB are positioning themselves at the forefront of this transformation. Juha Koskela (pictured), president of ABB’s global marine and ports business,…

11th September 2024

EXCLUSIVE: ABB’s holistic approach to sustainability and digitalisation

11th September 2024

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Maritime software is a growing sector and one which some of the largest marine companies in the world are looking to get involved in. This year alone, ABB and its former division…

10th September 2024

Q&A: Wind & Sea with StormGeo

10th September 2024

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

We speak to Garry Noonan (pictured), director of innovation at NYSE-listed, Ireland-headquartered Ardmore Shipping about the company’s efforts in sustainability.

22nd August 2024

Q&A: Ardmore Shipping and sustainability

22nd August 2024

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

The Motorship spoke to Ari M. Turunen, Head of R&D and Technology, Marine Propulsion, at ABB Marine & Ports, about the future of Azipod® propulsors

9th November 2023

Azipod propulsion to play a greater role in next generation vessel designs

9th November 2023

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

MONITORING, CONTROL & DIGITALISATION

Bernd Eberwein, Head of Digital Services 4-Stroke at MAN Energy Solutions in Augsburg discusses plans to extend trials for planned maintenance services on components within its portfolio in 2024

9th November 2023

MAN 4-stroke eyes digital expansion

9th November 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Bjarne Foldager, Senior Vice President & Head of Two-stroke Business at MAN Energy Solutions discusses surging demand for its methanol-fuelled ME-LGIM engine.

27th September 2023

PODCAST: MAN ES’ Foldager expects demand for ME-LGIM engine to soar

27th September 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Thomas S. Hansen, Head of Promotion and Customer Support at MAN Energy Solutions, 2-Stroke has provided an update on the new ammonia engine’s development schedule

4th September 2023

Joined Up Thinking: MAN’s New NH3 Engine Is On Track

4th September 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Dr Alexandra Ebbinghaus, GM Decarbonisation at Shell Marine, highlighted the challenges and opportunities that the industry is confronting in an interview with The Motorship

31st August 2023

MEPC80 Has Set The Direction Of Travel For The Industry: Ebbinghaus

31st August 2023

TURBOCHARGER

TURBOCHARGER

Dirk Bergmann, Chief Technical Officer of Accelleron shared his thoughts with The Motorship in an exclusive interview at the CIMAC conference in Busan.

24th August 2023

PODCAST: Bergmann: decarbonisation requires regulatory as well as technical solutions

24th August 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Paul Sells, CEO of ABS Wavesight, discusses the role that digitalisation tools can play in helping shipowners manage emissions reporting, specifically those offered by the new ABS affiliate and software-as-a-service company’s portfolio…

2nd June 2023

Integrating emissions reporting into digital work streams

2nd June 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

One of the enduring paradoxes of Nor-Shipping is how it manages to offer visitors access to the latest developments in a wide range of maritime sectors, while maintaining its welcoming collegiate atmosphere.

2nd May 2023

Positioning Nor-Shipping at the heart of the maritime economy

2nd May 2023

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INTERVIEWS

Christoph Rofka, Accelleron’s president Medium & Low Speed products and VP Communications at CIMAC, discusses changes that are affecting the wider maritime propulsion market, and Accelleron’s response in an exclusive interview with…

30th March 2023

Accelleron’s Christoph Rofka sees upcoming changes in the turbocharging market

30th March 2023

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

ELECTRIFICATION AND BATTERY HYBRIDS

An ABB study based on three years of operational ship data mounts the compelling case for integrating battery power onboard modern icebreakers, Samuli Hänninen, who specializes in icebreaking vessels at ABB Marine & Ports, tells The Motorship.

30th March 2023

Battery power to breakthrough in ice

30th March 2023

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INTERVIEWS

Tamara de Gruyter of Wärtsilä discusses the challenges of balancing footprint, solvent and energy requirements when marinising carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology for onboard CCS systems, and calls for regulators to…

28th March 2023

PODCAST: Shrinking mature CCS systems without increasing parasitic energy requirements

28th March 2023

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

FuelSave, the Germany-based technology developer behind the FuelSave+ combustion optimisation product, is in the process of patenting a new development for exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) solutions, breaking new grounds in emission reduction…

21st March 2023

Nanotech Key To EGR and CO2 Reduction Advances

21st March 2023

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INTERVIEWS

Regulators need to make appropriate choices to avoid penalising first movers like Stena Bulk, Erik Hånell, president and CEO of Stena Bulk tells The Motorship

21st March 2023

Carbon capture opens the door to negative CO2 emissions: Hånell

21st March 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Rune Garen uses his business development role at Kongsberg to pose some difficult questions

16th March 2023

KMs Garen sees the power of positive thinking

16th March 2023

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INTERVIEWS

GTT, the LNG containment specialist, is expanding its strategic focus to include digitalisation solutions as well as hydrogen solutions, Anouar Kiassi, GTT’s vice president of Digital & Information explains to The Motorship…

23rd February 2023

Digitalisation solutions and hydrogen broaden GTT’s focus areas

23rd February 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Thomas Hansen, head of two-stroke promotion and customer support at MAN Energy Solutions reveals MAN ES plans to soft-launch the Ammonia engine (AEngine) development programme in an exclusive interview with The Motorship.

23rd February 2023

MAN ES AEngine tests scheduled for H1 2023

23rd February 2023