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Vard has a strong track record when it comes to constructing LNG- powered ferries, and is now switching to hydrogen hybrid designs to produce a minimal environmental impact


DNV has also forecast that shipping has reached its peak in fossil fuel consumption, and there will now be a gentle downward trend as more green technologies come on stream.


Vard What they do: Vard is a major designer and builder of offshore and specialised vessels. Headquartered in Ålesund, the company has delivered more than 300 ships, trawlers and ferries since 2000, and has the multi-national shipbuilder Fincantieri as a major stakeholder. Vard will be delivering four new cruise ships for Ponant in 2018/19. What’s new? With nine series of specialised ship designs available, Vard is diversifying into new market segments and geographies. “Our experience with offshore


Vard has drawn on its experience of offshore vessels to create designs for a new breed of small, specialised cruise ships for exploring the world’s more sensitive areas. This design is intended for coral seas


turnaround. “It’s a bit like a battery swap on a power tool,” said Vard Electro’s Peter Pilskog. Full energy management is run from a SeaQ- equipped bridge, with the first system certified in 2017. “It is a very open platform,” Pilskog said. “The touch screen functions are very similar to phones and tablets, and SeaQ has been designed for easy integration with other operating systems.”


Remøy Shipping In an initiative called ReFuel, specialist ship building and management company Remøy is collecting ‘big data’ from its fleet of commercial ships to prioritise the best ways to save fuel. Huge amounts of data are being collected from ships’ systems


every five seconds, and the ReFuel programme is analysing it against a variety of parameters. “The end objective is to ensure the whole value chain works smart,” says the company.


Kjell Morten Urke, Vard Design


vessels is leading us into the explorer class of cruise ships, which is a booming industry,’ said vice president (concept design) Kjell Morten Urke. “This is leading to smaller, highly- specialised ships where we can provide a complete value chain from idea to completion, often harnessing one of our existing designs and always working very closely with the end customer.” The diversification will also be targeted at offshore energy, security


Peter Pilskog, Vard Electro


and food production. As a separate division, Vard Electro is concerned with the harnessing


of hybrid and battery energy to allow propulsion to be run in a ‘smart’ way. Under the banner SeaQ, Vard’s marine energy management solution, research is covering efficient battery technology, an automated battery exchange system (ABEX) and a fully integrated SeaQ bridge. Experiments with a short-hop ferry have led to Vard’s own unique


battery design, along with energy recovery from freefalling winches and other equipment. A battery exchange system will see several battery packs slow-charged ashore and exchanged during the five-minute ferry


Ulmatec Pyro Under the banner ‘Green Technology of Norway’ Ulmatec Pyro is developing cascading heat recovery systems with Sperre Coolers to greatly reduce energy wastage in shipping. “Currently only about 30% to 40% of energy is used efficiently,” said


Ulmatec’s Jan Petter Urke.“But by capturing and reusing waste heat this can be improved to 75%. This is achieved via a network that utilizes heat losses at multiple temperature ranges, from zero degrees Celsius to 120 degrees Celsius. The systems involved include exhaust economisers, steam surplus dumps, engine cooling, heat pumps, refrigeration and battery cooling.”


Libra-Plast Founded in 1954, Libra-Plast manufactures doors for a wide range of marine applications and has three factories and 70 staff producing 7,000 doors a year. The company is adapting many of its proven designs for autonomous operation, and for the new explorer class cruise ships with higher safety requirements for ice class. “In the autonomous sector, our doors can be automatically


controlled via electric or hydraulic actuators, and can have either local or remote operation with a manual over-ride in case of power failure,” said marketing manager Kim Lillebø. “They are completely weather or watertight, and rated to AO or A60


fire standard. For the cruise market, the doors are nicely presented and easy to clean, but are lightweight with quick-acting systems hidden away to avoid injuries.”


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