{"id":3659,"date":"2013-10-22T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2013\/10\/22\/tackling-industry-challenges\/"},"modified":"2013-10-22T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:23:00","slug":"tackling-industry-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/general-news\/tackling-industry-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling industry challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 250 delegates attended the conference to discuss the major factors affecting ferry operations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Through presentations and panel discussions, the event looked at the diversity of political, technical, operational and commercial issues including safety and alternative fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Holthus, founding CEO of the World Ocean Council, said: \u201cWe are trying to help industries look beyond their sector of the ocean and overlap with others to think about their interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOcean industries will benefit from collaboration with other sectors to create synergies and economies of scale in addressing issues. This is a leadership opportunity for responsible companies based on compelling business value,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers at the event discussed the safety aspects of ship design, stating that \u201cgoals-based\u201d rather than \u201crules-based\u201d damage stability regulations are better for addressing the life-cycle risk at design stage.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates also discussed LNG as a fuel to meet emissions and efficiency challenges stating that while LNG is now easily available throughout Europe, there are concerns about the lack of bunkering infrastructure and technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shipping industry is being urged to take a pro-active approach to industry challenges following Interferry\u2019s 38th annual conference earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}