Interviews – Page 4
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NewsOff-topic corner: submarine day trips
We don’t cover much charter/ pleasure cruising, and we normally prefer our boats to stay afloat in Maritime Journal, but when this fascinating story from the archives of Windermere Lake Cruises in the UK came up, it was far too interesting to ignore.
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NewsOddgeir Indrestrand: OIM
“I don’t know if many people really grasp the sheer scale of these coming turbines, and what it will take to carry and install them,”
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NewsMarket dynamics of offshore support vessels
According to Andrew Calderbank-Link, Operations Director, Seacat Services, balancing offshore energy support vessel market dynamics is crucial to maintaining offshore wind growth.
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NewsDavid Millar: Fugro Americas
A big step forward in understanding the oceans and oceans’ floors was taken by “a simple, cost-effective” flick of a switch, David Millar told MJ.
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NewsEast coast ports ready for Brexit
Charles Hammond OBE, Group Chief Executive, Forth Ports, which operates eight ports on the UK East coast says his team is ‘Brexit ready’.
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NewsBård Haug: SpillTech
It all started when Norway’s SpillTech were posed a question: “OK, we know you can clean up oil, so can you apply the same thing to marine litter?”
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NewsAsbjørn Halsebakke: Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch
“Ask who wants a change? Everybody. But ask who wants to change – the answer is usually, ‘nobody’…” Asbjørn Halsebakke told MJ.
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NewsThe new art and science of successful bid writing
According to Jason Cooney of Tsaks Consulting, winning maritime and shipping industry tenders should now always involve ‘best practice bid writing techniques’.
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NewsAlfonso Jurado: Técnicas y Servicios de Ingeniería (TSI)
Groundbreaking innovation has a hard time getting a foothold. Especially when all the rules and experience seem set against it. But it is possible – and when the stakes are high, the effort is worth it, said Fibreship project lead Alfonso Jurado of TSI.
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NewsHerman Jorgensen: GAC UK
Herman Jorgensen, MD of GAC UK has learned a lot from running remote supply chains: after all, “there’s no ordering missing small spares” when you’re in the Kara Sea, “four days sailing from the coastlines of Norway or Russia”.
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NewsNorman Finlay MBE: 1936-2020
The UK-headquartered Workboat Association has reported the recent sad news of the passing of its Life President: Norman Finlay MBE.
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NewsGeir Axel Oftedahl: Jotun
Though Jotun’s recent robotic developments seem surprising, the seeds were sown back in 2011, “when we started to look outside the paint can”, said Geir Axel Oftedahl. The goal was simple: consistently, rather than intermittently, clean hulls.
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NewsFerhat Acuner: Navtek
It may have helped “realise a revolution” Ferhat Acuner of Navtek told MJ, but the groundbreaking Zeetug project nearly didn’t happen.
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NewsLaurent Morel: InfraCore Company
As Laurent Morel of composites specialist InfraCore Company can attest, when dealing with new technology things can change faster than you’d expect. In any direction.
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NewsRoy Torgersen: Nido Robotics
Roy Torgersen, founder of Nido Robotics told MJ there’s already been a change of plan: “Today, we’re calling it ‘robots at your service’, providing the ROVs and basic training.” Tomorrow, however, the robot will let you know about its own discoveries.
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NewsGrant Brown: Sterling PBES
“It’s unfortunate… but I really think that the Norled ferry battery fire is significant in that it’s bringing additional scrutiny to safety systems,” Grant Brown of Sterling PBES told ”MJ”.
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![“These reused composites make profiles which can last at least twice that [of tropical hardwood] and I’d guess they could go on for 100 years or perhaps more”: Albert Ten Busschen](https://d3oegytn6n7k3n.cloudfront.net/Pictures/100x67/1/8/7/56187_Albert-Ten-Busschen.jpg)
NewsAlbert Ten Busschen: Windesheim College of Technology
Albert Ten Busschen is passionate about making wind energy truly green. He pointed out that at the moment, “turbine blades are made from materials that can’t be returned to their original components”. But, he added “they can be reused”.
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NewsJames Morfee: MacKay Marine Engineering
You might assume that vessel design would present the steepest challenge for a new type of electric ferry to be launched this spring, but no, for James Morfee of McKay, New Zealand, “it”s the charger”.
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NewsGeert Hendriks: Royal HaskoningDHV
Small movements “can, together, have a very large and unexpected impact”, explained Geert Hendriks of Royal HaskoningDHV. That applies equally to grains of sand and the soft-skills of diplomacy.
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NewsTor Østervold: ECOsubsea
Traditional hull cleaning methods are “a major issue for our industry”, said Tor Østervold, ECOsubsea CEO, as it impacts not just ports and vessel owners but the waters around them.
