Tag: ship technology

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.

Lloyd’s Register has approved Shaft Power Limitation (ShaPoLi) system that will be fitted onboard a 319,000 dwt very large crude carrier Aragona, operated by Neda Maritime Agency.

Korean Register (KR) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with DSME, agreeing to work together on increased digitalization technology.  KR and DSME will form a joint council and cooperate on smart and autonomous ship technologies and digitalization research.

The team at Columbia’s Performance Optimisation Control Room (POCR), headed up by Captain Pankaj Sharma, has developed a totally SMART and fully digitised jack-up barge under its management as part of a digital twinning process designed to massively optimise vessel performance.

The 2022 SMART4SEA Forum took place virtually from 23 to 24 of February 2022, focusing on key smart shipping issues and latest updates of industry’s digital transformation and technological trends.

As shipping is exploring its potentials to meet ongoing environmental requirements, batteries are seen as an attractive opportunity.

During the past decade, a large body of research has accumulated with respect to autonomous ship concepts, and, more recently, several full-scale trials have been undertaken. Research on this topic has reached a level of maturity where their technical feasibility has been proven with available technologies on, for example, autonomous navigation.

In 2020, there was an approximate average of one fire every two weeks onboard ships, while fire/explosion remained the third most common cause of ship total losses (11%) over the past decade.

Wärtsilä and Solvang ASA have agreed on a full-scale pilot retrofit installation of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) system.

Mr. Nicolas Mitsotakis, Managing Director M2INTELLIGENCE, Executive Director EPIDAURUS SA suggests useful tools and solutions to move forward with failures regarding communication between ship and shore.