EDITORIAL
1/2018
BLUE SEAS, GREEN GROWTH
Competitiveness comes in many shapes and sizes. Certainly in the
marine industry, “going green” has been a very shrewd move to
make as customers are becoming more and more environmentally
conscious. Sustainability issues impact all fields of marine industry and
the requirements set for marine technology are becoming increasingly
strict.
Recent report ’Smart maritime technology solutions’ by Finnish
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argues that further research is needed within the industry on issues
such as new energy sources, power-generation flexibility, recovery of
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Petri Charpentier
energy from on-board systems, energy storage and emissions and their
reduction and energy economics.
In addition, performance, maintenance and emissions
PROJECT MANAGER
Jaakko Lätti
management need to be improved by operational profiles and areas
such as reliability prognosis, identification of parasitic losses and fault EDITORIAL COORDINATOR
diagnostics, retrofits and turbo-compounding should be boosted, as Vappu Virtanen
well.
In the brightest of crystal balls, the future of maritime is free from
fossil fuels. One of the latest news on this front came over summer as
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Riitta Yli-Öyrä
Peace Boat, Japan-based international non-profit organisation, signed a
letter of intent with the Arctech Helsinki Shipyard to construct Ecoship,
the world’s greenest cruise ship. Arctech is set to build “the most
innovative and ecologically friendly cruise vessel ever”, a flagship for the
fight against climate change.
The 2 000-passenger and 750-cabin, 60 000 GT vessel is
CONTRIBUTORS
Sami J. Anteroinen
Merja Kihl
Ari Mononen
Jarkko Böhm
scheduled for delivery in spring 2020. Ecoship, with its nature-inspired
architectural design by Spanish company Oliver Design, will be the
platform for Peace Boat’s round-the-world cruise carrying 6 000 people
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Meyer Turku Oy
per year, hosting exhibitions on green technology in up to 100 ports per
year and serving as a “floating sustainability laboratory” contributing to
research on ocean, climate and green marine technology.
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Similarly, green winds blow also in Turku and Rauma shipyards.
Turku, for instance, is an industry leader in the making of LNG powered
cruise vessels.
Rauma shipyard has successfully rebooted its operations and is
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now operating as a new entity, Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC).
The keel of the very first vessel – a ferry for Danish Molslinjen – was
lowered into its place in August 2017. The Danes will get their ferry in
the spring.
In addition, one of the key players in Rauma, Roll-Royce Marine is
currently making major investments in its azimuth thruster production
facility. The 57-million-euro investment – due for completion by 2020
– includes e.g. a major rebuild of existing facilities and installation of a
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