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NewsShort-term GHG reduction measures will not deliver decarbonisation
Lars Robert Pedersen, deputy secretary general of BIMCO assesses MARPOL Annex VI amendments approved at the 75th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 75)
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Gas Fest virtual workshops identify incremental pathway for LNG-fuelled shipping
Gas Fest and the Society for Gas as Marine Fuel (SGMF) hosted a series of virtual workshops last week to explore how to strengthen the framework for clean fuels in shipping. The invitation-only workshops featured a number of senior representatives from shipowners, energy majors, bunker operators, port authorities, class societies ...
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Preparing for a transformed market: WinGD’s Dominik Schneiter
Dominik Schneiter, Vice President of Research and Development at WinGD discusses the challenges and opportunities of developing solutions for upcoming transformations in the shipping market.
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Not just batteries: models key to ropax efficiency savings
While battery hybrid installations offer the potential of double-digit fuel efficiency savings for newbuildings, the potential savings for retrofits was even greater in some cases, Giulio Tirelli, Director Business Development at Marine Power, Wärtsilä told The Motorship.
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Time to pull together: Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen calls for collaboration not fragmentation
CEO Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen of DNV GL - Maritime issues a call to arms for industry participants to come together, and mulls an extension of the EU’s Green Deal to cover shipping
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Christoph Rofka of ABB Turbocharging: step changes in turbocharging technology
Christoph Rofka, Senior Vice President – Head of Global Product Group Medium, Low Speed and Rail, ABB Turbocharging discusses previous step changes in turbocharging technology and the challenge of designing solutions to new fuels.
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Hydrogen hedge: Rolls-Royce Power Lab sees benefits of parallel approach
Rolls-Royce Power Systems, the designer of MTU engines and systems, plans to begin full-scale multi-cylinder tests on a spark-ignited low-pressure hydrogen engine design in 2021, Dr. Peter Riegger, Rolls-Royce Power Systems Vice President Power Lab tells The Motorship in an exclusive interview.
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DEBUT FOR HYDROGEN ENGINE SERIES
A Belgian pairing of influential shipping and engineering interests has given a fillip to the industry’s drive for viable low-carbon or carbon-free technologies by launching a hydrogen-fuelled medium-speed engine, writes David Tinsley.
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Driving force: Kongsberg’s An-Magritt Ryste interview
An-Magritt Ryste, Product Director, Next Generation Shipping at Kongsberg offers her perspective on autonomous vessel development, and the future of demand
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AMMONIA RELEASE STUDIES HIGHLIGHT IMPORTANCE OF HAZID ANALYSIS
The development of rules and regulations for the safe use of ammonia as ship fuel will take time and will need to be developed on the back of a solid program of research and development
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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 ...
