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Steps toward Operational Excellence in Shipbuilding: Elimina...
Like all heavy manufacturing industries today, the shipbuilding and repair industry is operating in an increasingly difficult business environment. In order for shipbuilding businesses to survive, it is important to understand and address the cha...
2020-10-30 08:49:12
ClassNK unfolds Digital Grand Design for sustainability
ClassNK recently unveiled its Digital Grand Design to express the pivotal role it expects digital technology to play not only in making the industry more efficient but also in meeting United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for a ...
2020-10-30 08:39:12
YSA Design lends full support to cruise sector revival
With a cruise sector comeback now on the horizon, shipowners are striving to ensure that their vessels are equipped for a new set of challenges. If the industry is to make a successful recovery, it will require radical rethinking across the board, ...
2020-10-20 10:43:15
Steps toward Operational Excellence in Shipbuilding: Identif...
While shipbuilding methods are well-established and crews are largely comfortable with current processes and tools, inefficiencies still exist in shipyards. The impact of these inefficiencies on business is far-reaching — affecting everything f...
2020-10-13 09:06:14
Starting small with Big Data
‘Big Data’ sits high up in the premier league of buzzwords that can confuse discussions in today’s shipping industry, but it remains true that the amount of data harvested from ships continues to rise rapidly.  Of the 380,000 or so ...
2020-10-13 08:59:07
Covid-19 and human cost for crew
The types of crew claims that can be anticipated as a result of Covid-19 are starting to crystallise writes Belinda Ward*, North P&I Club. While many countries now assess themselves as past the peak of daily Covid-19 death and new case cou...
2020-06-15 09:48:40
Electrifying the merchant fleet
The time for broad-brush references to alternative energy sources has passed. If shipping is to halve its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in line with the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) target for 2050, owners need precise guidance ...
2020-06-08 11:26:27
One Sea Chairman presents autonomous ship outlook
Capt Eero Lehtovaara, a master mariner and accomplished advocate of a ‘manned autonomous’ strategy, was recently appointed Chairman of One Sea, the digital and communications technology grouping which aims to develop an autonomous maritime ec...
2020-06-01 11:26:22
[Feature] Need for LNG-BV rises amid growth of LNG-fueled ve...
While the International Maritime Organization's (IMO's) global sulfur cap rule, which requires shipowners to burn 0.5% sulfur-compliant bunker fuel compared with 3.5% sulfur currently, takes effect from January 1 this year, the number of ships wh...
2020-03-25 09:05:36
[Feature] Korea to invade global offshore wind market
Ulsan envisions the world's biggest floating wind farm The Korean government has carried out the 'Renewable Energy 3020 Implementation Plan (RE3020)' from 2018. The ambitious roadmap aims to produce 20% of the country's energy from renewable s...
2019-09-04 10:04:46
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