Tag: Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce announced that the first two pre-production units of the new mobile MTU gas engine have successfully completed their performance tests and were accepted by the shipping company Rederij Doeksen at the beginning of December.

Ground-breaking agreements bringing together new app-based vessel management from two of the biggest names in maritime technology and Inmarsat confirm that shipping’s much-hyped information superhighway is headed in the direction of Fleet Xpress.

Rolls-Royce has opened the first Intelligent Asset Management experience space in Ålesund, Norway, aiming to demonstrate how ship intelligence systems can harness the “power of data” to optimise fleet operations, reduce operating costs and improve maintenance procedures.

Rolls-Royce and the European Space Agency signed an agreement to pursue space activities for autonomous, remote controlled shipping, aiming to promote innovation in European digital logistics. The collaboration aims to develop new solutions for communication between vessel systems and shore based systems in addition to ship-to-ship communication.

A new Research and Development program,  involving four major maritime players, Rolls-Royce, Color Line, Norled and the Norwegian Coastal Administration, eyes construction of environmentally friendly ferries benefiting from new technologies. 

The company's intention with the opening of the facility at the Norwegian Maritime Competence Center based in Ålesund, Norway, is to intensify work with third party innovators and digital disrupters, to exploit high-speed broadband via Fleet Xpress through its Certified Applications Provider programme.

Rolls-Royce has revealed a yacht concept designed to exploit hybrid propulsion based on LNG fuel and battery power in the marine leisure market.

Rolls-Royce announced the launch of  a ‘cloud-based’ fuel consumption and carbon dioxide monitoring module designed to help shipowners meet the European Union’s Monitoring, Reporting and Verification regulation.

Corvus Energy announced that it has been selected by Rolls-Royce as the supplier of a lithium ion based energy storage system for the Norwegian Coastal Administration’s new multipurpose vessel OV Ryvingen.

The deal allows Rolls-Royce to use Google’s Cloud Machine Learning Engine to further train the company’s artificial intelligence based object classification system for detecting, identifying and tracking the objects a vessel can encounter at sea.