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‘ The biggest challenge is to stay ahead of innovations to allow safe and effi cient operations to continue’
Although shipping is one of the safest modes of transport, unfortunately accidents do happen. As an independent institute, MARIN works together with governments, classification societies and shipping companies to make maritime operations safer, smarter, cleaner and more economical. We support them in developing policy, new design rules and regulations.
the world. Sometimes there are incidents such as the loss of containers from the MSC Zoe or the sinking of M/V Baltic Ace. MARIN assists in analysing these incidents and providing proposals for improving the safety of navigation.
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s an example, the shipping routes in the Dutch part of the North Sea are among the busiest in
Accident investigation Hugo Ammerlaan, Manager of Maritime Operations and coordinating the Authorities and Regulators market, explains that in some cases the investigation consists of a series of model tests to be able to model the hydrodynamic characteristics in our simulation models. MARIN did this in the case of the Korean ferry Sewol. This project included a detailed model of the vessel and its interior, which made it possible to
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simulate the flooding of the vessel at model scale and to study a number of flooding scenarios.
Another core activity of the Authorities & Regulators Department is to assist governments with spatial planning. Given the push to achieve a carbon neutral society, the governments of the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Denmark and the United Kingdom, are planning a
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