Tag: Maritime Knowledge

Habits can change our lives either positively or negatively. Of course, it depends on us what influence we want habits to have on our lives.

During the 2023 GREEN4SEA Athens Forum, Mr. Peter Quaade, Manager, Head of Dual Fuel Technology group, MAN Energy Solutions, presented the benefits that a ME-LGIP engine offers, such as supporting the use of LPG for propulsion of large merchant marine vessels, giving also potential for global bunkering network as smaller LPG carriers can be used for STS bunker operations. These are designed to be dual fuelled with LPG as the low-flashpoint fuel, he explained.

During the 2023 GREEN4SEA Athens Forum, Mr. Nikos Xydas, Technical Director of the World LPG Association, highlighted that LPG as a marine fuel is a better choice among the other fuel options from a well-to-wake perspective.

During the 2023 GREEN4SEA Athens Forum, Dr. Konstantinos Galanis, Chairman, International Ship Recycling Association, pointed out that ship recycling is not a stand-alone industry. He noted that organizations should be empowered to foster collaborative thinking to further drive waste management by applying safe processes and utilizing innovation.

In the 21st century, with the domination of technology, human contact has reduced dramatically. As a result, the social distancing has increased in parallel with the need for hugs.

During the 2023 GREEN4SEA Athens Forum, Mr. Gavin Allwright, Secretary General, International Windship Association (IWSA), highlighted that wind propulsion has been extensively researched, tested, discussed, piloted and by some, dismissed throughout the last decade.

To reduce the risk of large nurdle spills experienced in recent years, the regulatory work is now focusing on packaging requirements for plastic pellets within the freight container, notification to the carrier so that containers containing plastic pellets can be identified quickly to aid recovery, and stowage requirements for containers containing plastic pellets, argues Mrs. Kim Jefferies, Special Adviser, Arendal. 

During the 2023 SAFETY4SEA Limassol Forum, Evros Damianou, Education Program Lead, KeelX Education, referred to the major challenges of e-learning and the new technologies which will framework the future of the eLearning market.

During the 2023 SAFETY4SEA Limassol Forum, Nicholas Rich, Group Technical Manager – Systems at Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), pointed out that complexity increases the need for training.

During the 2023 SAFETY4SEA Limassol Forum, Giampiero Soncini, Managing Director, Oceanly Srl, questioned whether the new breed of maritime software that is coming, is good for the industry and why this software is so special.