Tag: ship technology

Digitalization has become a key priority in our agenda along with decarbonization and sustainability. Technologies such as AI, have brought enormous benefits to the industry and while the transition to a more tech-driven maritime future isn’t always easy, it is rapidly becoming a key differentiator for leading fleets today.

Increasing focus on decarbonisation and recent global events have led to more shipbuilding involving state of the art technologies, argue Reed Smith transportation lawyers Thor Maalouf and Sally-Ann Underhill.

To meet pressing environmental targets, ship operators need to start implementing green technologies now in order to experience the full benefits later, writes Aleksander Askeland, Chief Sales Officer of Yara Marine Technologies.

LR has awarded Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) with Design Approval for its ammonia (NH3) dual fuel 300,000 DWT very large crude carrier (VLCC).

De Nora Marine Technologies, LLC,  announced the launch of MARINER M64, a compact, dual-technology marine sewage treatment plant (STP) solution, combining the benefits of both electrolytic (EC) and biological treatment to enable vessels to achieve regulatory wastewater compliance with MEPC.227 (64).

During SMM 2022,  Stolt Tankers and Yara Marine Technologies signed an agreement to equip a further seven tankers with Yara Marine's FuelOpt propulsion optimization technology. This new order follows the installation and evaluation of Yara's technology on board the Stolt Breland in early 2022, with the aim to enhance fuel efficiency. 

Wärtsilä Voyage, part of the technology group Wärtsilä, unveiled its new demonstrator and innovation vessel, AHTI, at SMM in Hamburg, Germany.

Dom McKnight Hardy, Managing Director at MIS Marine, talks about the opportunities that big data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and the other emerging technologies bring to front, highlighting that collaboration is crucial to achieving success.

Cryostar and Hyundai Global Service will co-operate to provide a service to retrofit LNG carriers and FSRU vessels with systems and equipment to reduce CO2 emissions.

On June 7, during Posidonia, Lloyd’s Register (LR) and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop an autonomous ready ship design to support maritime digitalisation and the growing demand for operational benefits of increased autonomy.