6 Time to repower?

BRIEFS

Hall build UK shipbuilder Babcock International Group has awarded a £31.5 million contract to Robertson Construction for the development of a new Assembly Hall at its Rosyth site, which will initially be used for the Type 31 general purpose frigate programme. BREXIT buster

Stena Line will add an additional freight-only vessel to its Rosslare to Cherbourg route from 4th January 2021. The Stena Foreteller will join the Stena Horizon which already operates on the route, doubling the freight capacity as well as the frequency of sailings between Ireland and the Continent.

Coastal award The Southsea Coastal Scheme has been hailed as a best practice example of investing public money at the 2020 Flood and Coastal Excellence Awards, run by the Environment Agency. The Portsmouth City Council-led project in the UK took the ‘Best Investment Business Case’ category. Totally safe

Total E&P UK Ltd has presented Fugro with their prestigious ‘Partnership of the Year 2019’ award at their annual HSE award ceremony. Fugro won the award after completing 122 days of successful inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) operations using their remotely operated vehicle (ROV) support vessel Skandi Carla.

SUT CEO Dr Cheryl Burgess will join the Society for Underwater Technology as Chief Executive in January 2021, bringing over three decades’ experience in the energy industry including oil & gas (both off shore and onshore); renewables; and utilities. Høglund Marine Solutions has set up a new offi ce in Europe to support its growing base of customers in the Baltic.

The automation, gas and system integration specialist’s Helsinki office will be led by Anders Backlund, with the aim of strengthening relationships with partners, customers and suppliers in this major shipping region.

Mr Backlund is a 30-year veteran of the marine technology industry and joins Høglund as General Manager for Høglund Finland after three years as Senior Principal and Business Development Manager for global ship design and engineering service providers, Hebert Engineering Corp.

“I’m very happy to be joining Høglund as representative in Finland, with the aim to support the regional clients and develop supplier relationships in this key

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maritime technology region,” said Mr Backlund.

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Mr Backlund will support Høglund’s operations in Finland providing essential systems for newbuild and retrofit vessels. From automation and information systems to gas handling and

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manager for Høglund’s new Finland branch

cargo handling,

His diverse background has seen him involved in projects ranging from designing propulsion systems and managing complex installation projects to sales, marketing and business development.

Before working at Hebert Engineering Corp., he held sales and managerial positions at Rolls Royce Marine, where he was responsible for sales and customer relations throughout the Scandinavian and Baltic region. He started his career as a naval architect and marine engineer with Kværner.

FOILING FERRIES PROJECT APPOINTS BOARD

A supervisory board has been appointed to oversee the Belfast Maritime Consortium’s ambitious project to develop revolutionary zero-emission ferries in the city.

Earlier this year, the 13-partner syndicate, headed by Artemis Technologies, won a £33 million government innovation grant for the plans from the UK Research and Innovation’s flagship Strength in Places (SIP) Fund.

Working closely with the SIP Programme Director, Prof. Mark Gillan, the supervisory board will provide strategic leadership and support to the Belfast Maritime Consortium UKRI Strength in Places project, and oversee its successful completion.

Former Transport Minister, Nusrat Ghani MP, will chair the supervisory board which will include members from consortium partners, Dr Iain Percy OBE, CEO of Artemis Technologies, Nick Laird, Director, Advanced Air Programmes, Spirit AeroSystems, and Joe O’Neill, CEO, Belfast Harbour.

The board will be completed by independent members Dr Jayne Brady MBE, Digital

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Innovation Commissioner, Belfast City Region Deal, David Morant, Managing Director, Scorpio UK, and Harry Theochari, Partner and Global Head of Transport at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP.

NORMANDY PORTS ‘AS BREXIT READY AS THEY CAN BE’

After successfully completing the work to ensure customs checks can be carried out whilst keeping traffi c fl owing as smoothly as possible and after several dry runs, the Normandy channel ports - Le Havre for HAROPA and Caen-Ouistreham, Cherbourg and Dieppe for Ports of Normandy - have joined forces to help supply chain actors to be as ready as they can be for Brexit when it comes into force on 1 January, producing a series of handy fact sheets and organising site visits.

The border crossing process will rely on the smart border system, which is designed to keep port traffic moving in spite of the tighter controls due to Brexit.

Trial runs have confirmed that the entire process is operational: from pairing at the port of embarkation to inspection of the goods, if required. All the equipment has been tested: information systems, port layouts and flows, on-board information, and personnel communication.

The inauguration of a new shore power facility in Kiel means that Stena Line now has the possibility to connect 14 vessels at seven terminals to on-shore electricity during port stays.

The new connection in Kiel will reduce the CO2 emissions from the two vessels Stena Scandinavica and Stena Germanica by 2,700 tonnes per year. In total Stena Line claims it will reduce its CO2 emissions with shore power by 13,000 tonnes per year.

The Kiel facility provides 100% green electricity, thus also avoiding NOX-, SOX- and particle emissions for the connected vessels.

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Aside from Kiel, Stena Line has the possibility to connect to shore power supply at its two terminals in Göteborg, as well as in Karlskrona, Norvik, Trelleborg and Hoek van Holland, thus saving upto 13,000t of CO2 per year in its network. Of the 36 vessels in the Stena Line fleet, 14 are now equipped with High Voltage Shore Connection systems (HVSC).

SHORE POWER IN KIEL

“Shore power supply is important for us for two reasons,” says Niclas Mårtensson, CEO Stena Line and member of the Swedish Government Electrification Commission. “Firstly, we want to have an immediate positive impact on the air quality in the ports we use. Secondly, we expect an even higher share of electrification in

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up in Kiel

ports in the future - of cars, trucks, port vehicles and not the least the ships. With our battery and power bank projects, we are developing our ferry services further in that direction, and we learn something new each day. In 2030 we expect to launch a 100% battery powered and fossil free vessel”,

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CMAL Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL), the owner of 26 ports, harbours and slipways across the West of Scotland and the Clyde Estuary, has appointed ABPmer as its Designated Person under the requirements of the Department for Transport Port Marine Safety Code (PMSC).

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Optimisation ZeroNorth’s voyage optimisation software will be integrated with Veson Nautical’s Veson IMOS Platform, unlocking market-leading insights that reduce bunker spend and CO2 emissions for more tramp shippers. Towage

Towage operator Svitzer Europe has announced that Mattias Hellström has taken up the role of Chief Commercial Offi cer from 1st December 2020, reporting to Svitzer Europe’s Managing Director, Lise Demant.

Publishing Witherbys, the maritime publisher, has welcomed Royal Navy and industry stalwart David Balston as non-executive director (Deputy Chairman) to provide specialist sector expertise and support the company’s continued growth ambitions. British ports

ABP has welcomed Simon Brown to the company, as he has been appointed as Divisional Port Manager for Wales & South West in ABP’s Wales & Short Sea Ports (W&SSP) region. Simon will have responsibility for port activities across all fi ve of ABP’s ports in South Wales, in Cardiff , Newport, Barry, Port Talbot and Swansea and ABP’s two ports in the South West, in Teignmouth and Plymouth.

EMEC James Ferguson, Research and Development Engineer, at the European Marine Energy Centre (an ocean energy test site) in Orkney has won the Scottish Renewables Young and Inspiring Award at the 2020 Green Energy Awards. The awards ceremony was hosted virtually at the end of November.

TO REPOWER OR NOT?

Commercial marine industry professionals met virtually to discuss practical solutions to meet the fleet decarbonisation regulations that are coming thick and fast from January 2021.

The second session of the Commercial Marine Network’s five session Decarbonisation conference, sponsored by Southerly Designs, was based around the subject area of refitting the fleet. 250 delegates were registered for the event.

Following the usual introductions from Moderator Kerrie Forster of the Workboat Association and Chairman Andy Page of Chartwell Marine, Andy Osborne of the Port of London Authority got the ball rolling with some real world experience of integrating the regulations in a very mixed fleet of vessels.

The PLA runs a fleet of 30 powered craft, some of which are decades old, and the organisation has taken on some quite serious targets for itself, quite apart from the overarching legislation. Most notable of these is to reduce its annual carbon output by 60% (from 2014 figures) by 2025.

There is also an air quality strategy and a tight decarbonization roadmap that have been implemented. While some of this will call for repowers, Andy was quick to point out that many of the vessels simply do not have room in their engine compartments for the Tier III solutions with their bulkier aftertreatment components. There’s clearly also not budget available to replace the fleet. So there has been a large exercise at the PLA of seeing what options are available from the manufacturers, for each vessel and which vessels will require more temporary workarounds. Andy was quick to point out that especially for the smaller vessels, Teir III engines that could fairly directly replace the existing engines, in some cases, were impossible to find from any manufacturer.

Cedric Merveillaud, the Europe Sales Director of Cummins Marine was on hand to fight the corner of one of the manufacturers at least. Of the various aftertreatment options to meet the Teir III NOx limits, Cummins has gone for SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction). It’s a low back pressure system that Cummins are happy to supply a two-year warranty with. One sobering fact that Cedric provided was that the reduction in NOx between Tiers II and III is 70%, so no surprise that the reworking of products has been a major job for all the manufacturers. The gaps in what new engines are available versus the PLA’s new engine wish list, began to make sense, as Cedric pointed out that for certain engine families the business case was just not yet there for introducing a Tier III variant.

Cedric provided two interesting Cummins-powered case studies; a Norwegian hybrid ferry and a series hybrid food delivery catamaran in the USA, both of which were already demonstrating significant benefits to their operators.

Owen Preece of Bureau Veritas clarified matters on what the new rules are and when they are coming in with a useful timeline from where we are now all the way through to 2050. BV’s also had to do some fast work to keep up with the changes, and Owen was able to share three new vessel notations that the classification society has introduced: ELECTRIC HYBRID, BATTERY

8 Clockwise from top left: Owen

Preece, Andy Page, Andy Osborne, Cedric Merveillaud

SYSTEM and ULEV (Ultra Low Emission Vessel).

Back on the original subject of repowering existing vessels, Owen clarified the rules. A repower is usually considered, as far as the IMO rules are concerned, the same as a new vessel. Ie., any keel laid after January 2021 needs Teir III power. But for older vessels there is one workaround, in that an exact like-for-like engine replacement does not count for this. The problem will increasingly be finding exact replacements for engines for older vessels where the engine might no longer be in manufacture, but for older fleets, it could be a temporary option to keep boats working. A similar workaround solution is to rebuild engines instead of replacing, and in older workboat fleets there is going to be plenty of that going on in the next few years.

Don’t miss the next sessions in the Commercial Marine Network’s decarbonization webinar series in the new year, when we will be stepping ahead into the 2030s where drop in fuels, repowering with cleaner diesels and rebuilding engines will no longer be realistic options.

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Hydrogen hybrid propulsion plans Piriou is one of the three winners of the Call for notification of interest of the off shore wind Innovation Challenge -managed by WPD and the Brittany maritime cluster -Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique.

The French boatbuilder earned the win with its design and concept of a H2 low emission CTV. Vincent Faujour, Piriou Group C.E.O. said: “We deeply thank WPD and the Maritime Cluster for awarding this prize and commend the relevance of the project and the quality of the work done by the Piriou design office teams. This award allows us to benefit from the support and experience of WPD.

ONLINE SERVICE CONNECTS OWNERS AND CHARTERERS

A newly launched online service has been designed to better connect vessel owners with prospective charterers.

The service, called MarineDash, will cater initially to vessels for hydrographic and geophysical survey, ROV and dive support, geotechnical sampling and environmental studies.

The company owners believe MarineDash will satisfy a growing industry need, particularly within the offshore renewables sector. With considerable experience within the industry, they understand the difficulties faced both by charterers and vessel owners. Company director Heather Blackford comments: “During my time managing tenders for a geophysical survey company, finding the right vessel for a project was an ongoing challenge. We never had a complete picture of the available vessels in the market, and the overall uncertainty influenced our tender responses. We anticipate the demand for spot charter vessels to continue to intensify as more contractors move towards a chartering business model and offshore wind farms become larger and further offshore.”

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For vessel owners, MarineDash will optimise the vessel listing to bring out its best features, including copywriting and photo editing, if required. The company can also provide enhanced marketing services, including photography, UAV videography. To support owners during quiet periods, they will also be able to sign up to additional promotion.

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