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indicator, “but strongly endorses the Ship Efficiency Management Plan as a vehicle to gauge performance”. BIMCO believes that measures to manage the
emission of greenhouse gases from shipping should be regulated through the IMO. Of the proposals for Market Based Instruments
submitted to the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 59) meeting, BIMCO said it believed that the Danish proposal for an IMO Interna- tional Compensation Fund was the instrument that best met the nine IMO principles.
Design Wärtsilä combines
design Wärtsilä is to combine all its ship design units into a single entity, to be known as Wärtsilä Ship Design. Te units involved in this re-organisation include the recently acquired naval architect companies Vik-Sandvik of Norway, Conan Wu & Associates (CWA) of Singapore, and SCHIFFKO of Germany, as well as the company’s conceptual ship design unit in Finland. Te new set up will generate a variety of new designs,
from simple, low-cost, standard vessels to more high-end tonnage. Wärtsilä said it expected to increase its share of the ship design market, with the main focus being on a full design scope approach. “Tere will be close collaboration between our Ship
Design unit, other parts of the Ship Power organisation, and other Wärtsilä businesses,” said Arne Birkeland, vice president, ship design, Wärtsilä Ship Power. “Our long term ambition is to create standard proven designs with predefined solutions, and to provide operational services
with performance guarantees and fixed prices. Tis may also include extended services, such as yard selection and supervision support in the construction phase. “We will gradually launch a series of designs developed
as a result of the knowledge sharing between the different units, and these will be branded as Wärtsilä Ship Designs. It is our goal to establish Wärtsilä as an independent ship design brand, which will become the customer’s first choice”. One of the first designs to be fully accredited as a
Wärtsilä Ship Design is the W Tug 80. Tis is an escort tug of 35m, capable of carrying out ship assist duties at offshore terminals, as well as high-speed escorting, push-pull operations, and coastal towing.
Design Sandwich combo
Fintry Marine Design AG and Kockums AB, part of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, have reached an agreement to cooperate in the marketing, design and construction of fast ferry, work and pilot boats built in carbon fibre reinforced sandwich structure. Swiss company Fintry has focused on supplying carbon
fibre materials to the catamaran sector. For the past five years the company has been involved in designing special workboats to transport supplies and service personnel to, from and within offshore wind parks in the waters of Northern Europe. Te low displacement of the vessels, due to the composite material, reduces the risk of damage to the turbines when docking. Kockums has hitherto focused on naval technology
- above and below the surface. Its experience in carbon fibre reinforced sandwich includes the Visby Class Naval Corvette, which is the world’s largest surface vessel built in
One of the first designs to be fully accredited as a Wärtsilä Ship Design is the W Tug 80.
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