The Maritime Economist Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 42

THEMARITIME Economist

FreshMINDS
new
“ There exist manytechnologies;
innovations and
therefore, technology
selection is vital for the
ship-owners and shipping
companies.

at 03:00 am, a ship-owner can instantly see where
his ship is and communicate the officers whether
or not there exists some problems. Cargo tracking,
environmental conditions, crew management will be
on the only one screen of the smartphones.

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A maritime shipping firm can easily share a file or
document by using cloud based storage
services for example, via Dropbox, Google
Drive, OneDrive and etc. Crew will file
legally binding applications by word-processing
programs. The remote lectures for crews will be
possible in the future. In the emergency cases, by
using chat apps, the doctor will be able to see the
sufferer and direct others to do something. Big
meetings, one-by-one conversations, will be
conducted by mobile collaboration.

Green shipping and alternative energy
sources
for
the
vessels : The main

purpose of new technologies for reduction
of air emissions either of CO2,NOX, SOX
or particles. These technologies vary from
machinery, propulsion, operation and logistics base. In
42 order to realize green shipping, new energy sources
are investigated for a long time. Wing sails, wind

solar, kites, electricity in ports, biodiesel, wind
turbines, photovoltaic panels and hydrogen fuel cells
will be more common in the future.
Technologies for arctic : Due to global warming,

newly opened routes in the Arctic region are interest
of shipping companies. Therefore, offshore platform
development, Arctic exploration, dynamic positioning
and shortest path subject to zero risk are emerging
technologies for Arctic transportation and exploration.

Instant stopping technology for vessels : Marine

accidents are the worst cases of the maritime
transportation. Marine accidents cause cargo damages,
lose of human lives as bad as environment pollution.
If we look at from side of the vessel, the main reason
for occurrence of these casualties (collision, grounding
and etc.) is not being able to stop the vessel instantly.
If the vessel is at the collision position, the only thing
to do is having the best position, which results with
the minimum damage. Also, it requires special skills
for the master mariners to stop these moving islands
in such scenario.
For this problem, rather than rudder and propeller,
new hull designs are required. In the future, we
will see the new-design finned vessels like fish.
These fins will help stopping the vessel instantly
and designs of these fins will vary from vessel to
vessel. When the fins are opened, huge amount of
seawater will move against the fins, which is opposite
direction of the vessel. Then the vessel forcefully will
stop instantly. There will be no need for extra space
and too much cost for these designs. Moreover, these
new designs will decrease the mooring time.