Opinion – Page 6

  • Volkmar Galke, WinGD’s Global Director of Sales. (Image: WinGD)
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    Bridging the gap: designing solutions to meet demand after 2030

    2020-07-27T11:58:00Z

    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.

  • Julien Bec, Vice President, LNG as Fuel division at GTT
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    Julien Bec of GTT: collaboration holds key to meeting future challenges

    2020-07-24T17:43:00Z

    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.

  • Geir Bjørkeli,  ceo at battery supplier Corvus
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    GROWTH IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS

    2020-06-23T17:33:00Z

    Geir Bjørkeli, CEO at battery supplier Corvus, cites the strength of the company’s maritime heritage and technologies in an interview with The Motorship

  • MAN Energy Solutions' plans to launch its ME-GA low-pressure engine platform by Q1 2022 remain on track. (Image courtesy of MAN ES)
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    MAN ES 2-stroke R&D chief prepares for multi-fuel future

    2020-06-15T18:17:00Z

    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.

  • Wärtsilä is testing ammonia as a viable fuel for shipping at its centre in Vaasa.
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    Wärtsilä advances ammonia and hydrogen research

    2020-05-13T15:28:00Z

    Kaj Portin, General Manager, Fuel & Operational Flexibility, Wärtsilä Marine, discussed progress in developing solutions to use hydrogen vectors, such as ammonia and hydrogen

  • The report identified fuel price is the main factor in adoption, but added that different zero-carbon fuel options will be more competitive over the decades before 2050.
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    A techno-economic view on the zero carbon fuel landscape

    2020-04-21T20:01:00Z

    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 ...

  • Stefan Goranov, Program Manager - Hybridisation at WinGD.
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    Into the blue: WinGD hybridisation programme takes flight

    2020-04-17T15:34:00Z

    Stefan Goranov, Program Manager - Hybridisation at engine designer WinGD discusses efficiency gains and the next steps in the engine designer’s hybridisation programme.

  • Dr Dino Imhof, Head of Turbocharging Solutions, ABB Turbocharging
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    The path to hydrogen with a zero-carbon footprint

    2020-04-15T17:24:00Z

    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.

  • In practice, on many ships, food waste and its derivatives are sent, in whole or in part, to the grey water system.
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    Vanishing food waste flouts maritime and national law

    2020-04-08T16:27:00Z

    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.

  • 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.

  • Roger Holm believes a combination of operational optimisation, improved connectivity and fuel choice will help to reduce shipping's environmental impact.
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    Wärtsilä Marine President Shares Long-Term Vision

    2020-02-18T10:40:00Z

    Confronting shipping’s environmental challenges will demand new ways of operating as well as new fuels, according to Roger Holm.

  • 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

  • The alternative fuels landscape is evolving rapidly: Norway's decision to fund the development of a hydrogen distribution network is just one significant development since mid-November.
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    Shifting sands in Europe

    2020-01-09T18:20:00Z

    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 ...

  • 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.