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Maritime Industry is evolving at a very fast rate with new changes being made every day. In this article we have tried to enumerate the top 5 areas of shipping where maximum of these changes would be seen in future.
One of the most important factors to reduce the fuel consumption of ships and to increase their efficiency and speed is the “Drag”. In simple terms, drag is the resistance generated against the ship as it sails through water. Thus, lower the drag, greater the speed of the ship. Recently, researchers have come up with…
Oshima Shipbuilding Company and DNV have unveiled an open hatch bulk carrier concept design – Eco-Ship 2020. The energy efficient eco-friendly concept ship aims to lower fuel costs and improve the overall shipping operation, considerably.
Shell’s Preclude FLNG – a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas Facility is the world’s first FLNG development, and which when completes in 2017, will be one of the largest things to float on the oceans. People behind the project estimate 260,000 tons of steel to be used in constructing the facility; which would be four times…
SAVER 10000 of Seaspan-a nominee of nor shipping awards and an eco friendly container ship with energy reduction concept for safeguarding marine eco system
The Wind Turbine Shuttle is a SWATH (Small Water Plane Area Twin Hull) ship. The uniqueness of the ship is that it can transport and set up a pair of wind turbines simultaneously in the high seas. The Wind Turbine Shuttle (WTS) has been designed and built by the Dutch shipping corporation Huisman Equipment BV….
Huge cargo containers stacked one on top of other in ports or on ships occupy a lot of space. How great would it be if we can fold them and put it aside when they are not in use? Sounds unusual? Not anymore. Staxxon a United States based company is developing a technology that will…
The X Bow (Axe Bow) ship,by the Norwegian Ulstein Group with its revolutionary design of ship bulbous bow, has created quite a sensation when it was introduced.
The shipping industry is leaning toward the eco-trend with several green ships being made each year. One such idea that has stood out among these ideas is the one to produce the world’s first ever zero emission vessel- the E/S Orcelle. Conceptualized by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, the vessel is to rely on wind, sun and…