{"id":4606,"date":"2026-09-02T10:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2026-09-02T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:51:57","slug":"silverstream-aims-to-have-us-forever-blowing-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/general-news\/silverstream-aims-to-have-us-forever-blowing-bubbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverstream aims to have us forever blowing bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Air lubrication systems have earned their place among Energy Efficiency Technologies (EETs) across the global maritime industry, Silverstream Technologies\u2019 Kathleen Elward will highlight at December\u2019s Propulsion &amp; Future Fuels Conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As VP Commercial Operations at Silverstream Technologies, Elward works with shipowners, operators and shipyards to accelerate maritime decarbonisation through the adoption of air lubrication technology that improves fuel efficiency and reduces emissions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silverstream has now installed its market-leading air lubrication system in more than 160 vessels across a diverse range of segments, including cruise ships, container vessels, LNG carriers, Ro-Ro\/ RoPax vessels and PCTCs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elward will bring over two decades of commercial and engineering experience across industrial technology businesses to the opening day of the conference, where she will contribute to the session <em>Power in Sync: Optimising Propulsion from Hull to Drivetrain Through Electrification and Energy Integration<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The session will explore how an integrated approach to propulsion and energy management can improve vessels\u2019 performance, increase flexibility and reduce their fuel consumption and emissions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VP Kathleen Elward to sing the praises of air lubrication technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[82,81],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-decarbonisation","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4608,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/4608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}