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Bridging the gap: designing solutions to meet demand after 2030
While LNG remains the best near-term choice as a transition fuel, work to meet market demand after 2030 is accelerating, Volkmar Galke, WinGD’s Global Director of Sales, tells The Motorship.
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Julien Bec of GTT: collaboration holds key to meeting future challenges
Julien Bec, Vice President, LNG as Fuel division at French technology and engineering company Gaztransport & Technigaz (GTT), offers his perspective on the lessons that the introduction of LNG into the fuel mix offers for other alternative fuels, and discusses the challenges of anticipating customer demand.
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GROWTH IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS
Geir Bjørkeli, CEO at battery supplier Corvus, cites the strength of the company’s maritime heritage and technologies in an interview with The Motorship
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MAN ES 2-stroke R&D chief prepares for multi-fuel future
Brian Østergaard Sørensen, Vice President, Head of R&D 2-Stroke Business, at MAN Energy Solutions, looks back at technological developments and discusses the challenges of choosing between research priorities.
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Wärtsilä advances ammonia and hydrogen research
Kaj Portin, General Manager, Fuel & Operational Flexibility, Wärtsilä Marine, discussed progress in developing solutions to use hydrogen vectors, such as ammonia and hydrogen
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A techno-economic view on the zero carbon fuel landscape
Lloyd''s Register and UCL''s University Maritime Advisory Services (UMAS) have published a report looking at the economic viability, technology readiness and stakeholder engagement of different zero carbon fuels. While the fuels will be technologically possible in the next few years, confidence in the availability of such fuels and the supply ...
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Into the blue: WinGD hybridisation programme takes flight
Stefan Goranov, Program Manager - Hybridisation at engine designer WinGD discusses efficiency gains and the next steps in the engine designer’s hybridisation programme.
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The path to hydrogen with a zero-carbon footprint
Renewable hydrogen is crucial to shipping’s decarbonisation. But getting there will not be easy or cheap, writes Dr Dino Imhof, Head of Turbocharging Solutions, ABB Turbocharging.
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Vanishing food waste flouts maritime and national law
Inconsistent interpretation and enforcement of biosecurity rules by maritime and agricultural authorities is permitting food waste and its derivatives to be sent to the grey water system, argues Wei Chen, Future Program Development Manager, Wartsila UK Ltd, UK.
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Hybrid schemes find new technologies for old concepts
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 ...
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Thinking systematically about propulsion: Wärtsilä's Stefan Nysjö
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.
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Wärtsilä ammonia combustion research progresses
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.
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The Marine Fuels for the Motorships of the Future
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.
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Acting to meet long term objectives
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
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Formulating answers to the industry's lubrication needs
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.
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Wärtsilä Marine President Shares Long-Term Vision
Confronting shipping’s environmental challenges will demand new ways of operating as well as new fuels, according to Roger Holm.
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Navigating a world of changing fuels
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 ...
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Learning from experience
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
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Shifting sands in Europe
Writing before the full effects of the introduction of the Global Sulphur Cap are fully known, the pace of regulatory developments shows no sign of relenting. Class societies are already providing guidance ahead of the introduction of requirements under the EU Ship Recycling Regulation (SRR) for non-EU vessels to submit ...
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This is no time to hesitate
Rolf Stiefel, vice-president WinGD, tells The Motorship that meeting the IMO’s 2030 objectives requires urgent action.