Opinion – Page 9

  • Willie Wagen: “It maybe that we’ll move away from just one strong indicator dictating everything"
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    Willie Wagen: Beyond the oil price

    2017-02-15T07:07:00Z

    There’s no going back says Willie Wagen, global vice president of sales and marketing and managing director Europe, Corvus Energy. “Regardless of a rise in oil price we won’t be seeing a simple ‘return to normal’.... we’ll be looking at a very different future.”

  • Claudia Ohlmeier: “if a vessel gets detained, that’s difficult enough – and then class comes along and says ‘you have even more work to do – and guess what, that’s going to be an extra bill’...”
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    Claudia Ohlmeier: Bridging troubled waters

    2017-02-15T07:03:00Z

    Claudia Ohlmeier’s current project, as she sees it, is to help stop ships being sucked into “a downward spiral” of detentions. Not that everyone appreciates it - at least at first. Stevie Knight writes.

  • FinFerries vessel Stella trialled a fusion of advanced sensor technologies as part of the Rolls-Royce led Advanced Autonomos Waterborne Applications project
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    A year to remember?

    2016-12-19T08:28:00Z

    The onward march of emissions regulations dominated headlines in 2016, but the year was also notable for some important technical advances and engine developments. The Motorship editor Gavin Lipsith picks the highlights from an eventful year.

  • Follow all the action from Hamburg on the Gas Fuelled Ships Live Blog
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    Live from Gas Fuelled Ships 2016

    2016-11-16T01:19:00Z

    The Motorship''s Gas Fuelled Ships conference kicks off today in Hamburg, Follow the action here, including speaker highlights, photos, social media commentary and reporting from technical visits..

  • Jeffrey, Lord Mountevans: “We must evolve again if we are to remain the world’s leading maritime centre; we cannot be complacent about our position in the global market or the decline of UK shipping interests”
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    No room for complacency

    2016-11-07T10:27:00Z

    “Britain’s maritime offering, especially when it comes to engineering and technology, is first class,” says Lord Jeffrey Mountevans. But in order to keep its place and relevance, Britain’s maritime industry must evolve, he tells Stevie Knight.

  • Karin Orsel: Starting a ship management company was “a gamble maybe not everyone would have gone for”
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    The decisive Karin Orsel

    2016-10-10T09:44:00Z

    “It’s like an addiction,” says Karin Orsel, CEO of MF Shipping Group. “You get a taste for this industry and you don’t want to leave.”

  • ‘Manchester Port’, the first British ship to be designed for unmanned engine room operation, befitting of the engineers’ professional status
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    Looking ahead in ferry operations

    2016-10-10T09:27:00Z

    No fewer than 56 pages of the November 1966 issue of The Motor Ship were devoted to a special survey of ferries operating in European waters.

  • Gunnar Johnsen:  “You have to see what fails and why it fails - so you have to push the limits and test it. You have to get people’s trust to be able to do that...”
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    Gunnar Johnsen: magnetic personality

    2016-09-12T05:42:00Z

    There’s an age-old technology that’s now stepping out of the wings to claim its share of the limelight: permanent magnet (PM) motors. But look behind Rolls-Royce Marine’s commercial development of PM units and one remarkably tenacious man stands out. By Stevie Knight.

  • Hallvard Slettevoll: “If it’s ahead of expectations... it’s very hard to get people to believe you”
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    Hallvard Slettevoll: Converting the unbelievers

    2016-07-29T00:18:00Z

    “If you are offering something really different – not just ‘more of the same’ – then it’s actually quite difficult to sell,” says Hallvard Slettevoll, founder of STADT, the small engineering company that has stolen electrical integration contracts away from big, established players like General Electric and ABB.

  • Jack Brown: founder of Cargospeed and creator of over 50 ro-ro patents
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    Jack Brown: Six decades of contagious ideas

    2016-07-05T09:33:00Z

    He maybe one of the grandfathers of ro-ro technology but Jack Brown admits design is still an itch he occasionally wishes he could “simply turn off”, adding: “If I get an idea I have to try to follow through, just to see if it’s practical.”

  • Ann Nerheim: “It gave me the opportunity to see a project through from the initial problem to getting some answers.”
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    Ann Rigmor Nerheim: All about the pressure

    2016-03-21T10:25:00Z

    Ann Rigmor Nerheim of Rolls-Royce was not, she admits, looking to get involved with the marine industry. But by 2013 the marine industry had begun to look for her.

  • ‘Tor Anglia’, Europe’s most powerful ferry
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    A new start for UK yards

    2016-03-21T10:24:00Z

    Reorganisation of shipbuilding in the UK was the main story in ‘The Motor Ship’, April 1966. The Geddes Report recommended a “fresh start for British shipbuilding”, to be achieved through regrouping the industry into four large groups, incentivised through a £37.6 million government package.

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    Container ships on the horizon

    2016-01-22T16:48:00Z

    Not every prediction from past volumes of The Motor Ship proves to be accurate: however, the lead article from the February 1966 issue was pretty much spot on.

  • Magnus Erikssen: "Venture capitalists are really unadventurous"
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    Magnus Erikssen: From subs to supercharged ferries

    2015-09-25T11:25:00Z

    Magnus Erikssen knows what it is to have a foot in two different worlds.

  • Geoff Dean: “if you keep repeating the design process you get good at solving problems”
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    Geoff Dean: A life in design

    2014-12-31T23:00:00Z

    “Nothing stays the same,” Geoff Dean of OSD IMT tells Stevie Knight: “Change is what drives the industry, so there’s no point in wishing it otherwise, you just have to stay ahead.”

  • The Rolls-Royce UT777 is one of the new Well Intervention Vessels that aim to bring down overall costs by adding extras like top-hole drilling: it was also built at KHI in Japan
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    2014 Support Sector Review: A changing game

    2014-12-31T23:00:00Z

    Will people remember 2014 as the year the game changed? If they are in the oil and gas support sector, then that’s quite likely... writes Stevie Knight

  • Emissions – united action needed
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    Shipping still undecided on emissions legislation

    2014-12-31T23:00:00Z

    By the time this issue appears in print, ships in ECAs will be mandated to cut sulphur emissions to 0.1% fuel content, or take equivalent appropriate measures, while the global 0.5% limit edges closer, and attention is turning to carbon emissions. Yet even with such a short time scale, there ...

  • LNG – have falling oil prices and the still-uncertain infrastructure questions caused the bubble to burst?
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    An industry driven by uncertainty

    2014-12-30T18:00:00Z

    2014 was a year in which our industry largely stood still, awaiting the uncertain outcome of new fuel regulations and the still-unresolved ballast water question, while oversupply of tonnage and economic woes bedevilled Far Eastern shipbuilding.

  • ‘Norman Atlantic’, as ‘Scintu’ in 2013 (Wikimedia, Eustace Bagge)
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    Italian ferry fire prompts safety concerns

    2014-12-30T14:15:00Z

    Safety of passenger ships in the Mediterranean is likely to once again come under the spotlight following a fire onboard Italian-flagged ferry ‘Norman Atlantic’ during the early hours of 28 December.

  • Sergei Ivanov: corruption was behind the dismissal of a number of high-ranking officials (www.kremlin.ru)
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    Russia fights corruption in national shipbuilding

    2014-12-30T14:14:00Z

    The Russian government is planning to tighten its fight against corruption in its national shipbuilding and marine equipment industries, writes Eugene Gerden.