The day kicked off with presentations from Anette Ustrup Svendsen, Head of Corporate Communication, Scandlines. This presentation explored the history and evolution of Scandlines. Followed by a presentation from Jukka Kuuskoski, CSO, Norsepower. In his presentation Jukka explained the physics behind the rotor sail; then moved on the highlight the vessels it has been fitted onto and finished the presentations looking at the market outlook and environmental impacts.<\/p>\n
The delegates were then invited to the Bridge, and were given a full brief by the Captain of the journey and the positive impact the installation of the rotorsail have had for Scandlines. Delegates then went outside onto the helipad, for a close up view of the Norsepower Rotor sail producing wind assisted propulsion and a clear view of Rostock when M\/V Copenhagen docked into port as the first part of the journey.<\/p>\n
On return back to Gedser delegates were given a full guided tour of the engine room(s) and explored how the vessel is powered by MAK engines and port manoeuvred by Azipod thrusters.<\/p>\n
The day finished with a presentation from Gavin Allwright, Secretary, International Windship Association (IWSA). Gavin\u2019s presentation gave the delegates insights into WASP projects, of which both IWSA and Scandlines are members.<\/p>\n
Next years conference has been confirmed to take place from 15-17 November 2021, Le M\u00e9ridien, Hotel, Hamburg. For more information about next year\u2019s conference or access to the download, please contact the Events team on +44 1329 825335 or email conferences@propulsionconference.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On day three of the conference delegates were invited to Scandlines M\/V Copenhagen, a hybrid ferry fitted with a Norsepower 30m rotor sail.Norsepower\u2019s 30m rotor sail<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-pff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","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=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}