BRITISH MARINE ISSUES STATEMENT FOLLOWING CANCELLATION OF 2019 LONDON BOAT SHOW
British Marine, which organises and owns the London Boat Show, has announced that the 2019 Show, due to run at ExCeL London from 9-13 January 2019, will not take place.
This decision was made after independent research by exhibition experts, Zing Insights, showed there was insufficient support from a large proportion of the marine industry to the London Boat Show with its current format, duration and location.
In the last three weeks, Zing Insights has carried out personal interviews with over 67% of exhibitors. This revealed that whilst a number of marine companies supported the change to a five day Show, finding it preferable to a 10 day Show, a large number of key exhibitors were not prepared to commit to exhibiting to a five day Show at ExCeL in January 2019.
Visitor research also showed that consumer satisfaction of the 2018 Show was below acceptable industry standards. Visitor satisfaction was centred on the content of the Show and specifically on the number and diversity of sailing and power boats exhibited. The research results showed a year-on-year decline in audience satisfaction which would continue to fall if the Show proceeded in the same format and continued to fail to satisfy visitor expectations.
Read the statement in full at
http://bit.ly/2kARCri DNV GL PUBLISHES ITS REVIEW OF MARINE FUEL ALTERNATIVES
Class society DNV GL has published an up-to-date assessment of the most promising alternative marine fuels available today. The study is timely, as the 2020 fuel sulfur cap is fast approaching and the IMO has just decided to aim for a 50 percent cut in shipping’s carbon emissions.
The paper examines the prospects for the full range of alternatives – LNG, LPG, methanol, biofuel, hydrogen, fuel cells, wind and battery technologies – and it compares them to the use of conventional fuel, both with scrubbers and without. It is primarily aimed at helping shipowners understand their compliance options for the approaching sulfur cap, but it also includes a detailed breakdown of the carbon emissions profile of each fuel and propulsion technology.
Over the short term, the paper predicts that the vast majority of vessels in service today will either switch to low sulfur conventional fuels or install a scrubber system while continuing to use heavy fuel oil (HFO). DNV GL notes that because of the limited availability of scrubber installations, at most about 4,000 vessels will be using the technology in 2020. This raises the question of whether the high-sulfur fuel that scrubber-equipped vessels are designed to consume will remain available, given the small size of the market.
DNV GL’s compilation of the carbon profiles of fuel alternatives is particularly timely, as the industry is discussing its options in the wake of the MEPC’s agreement on a CO2 reduction target.
Image courtesy of DNV GL Full story:
https://bit.ly/2qRRVSm
10 | The Report • June 2018 • Issue 84
Marine News
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