Interviews – Page 9
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NewsEd Dudson: BMT Nigel Gee
Really innovative projects still give Naval Architect Ed Dudson of BMT Nigel Gee “one or two moments” of apprehension: “At launch you wonder if the yard has built the vessel to sit at the right load line. And then there’s the sea trials – will it do the speed written ...
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NewsBjarte Skaala: Norsafe designer
It’s been said that the Skaala family “drank lifeboat production along with their milk”; the father starting the original Harding factory in Norway with the oldest son Geir driving Norsafe to multinational status. So it’s not surprising the youngest, Bjarte, soon followed, finishing the lines of his first 20ft workboat ...
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NewsChris Livett: Staying afloat on the Thames
Chris Livett, of Thames vessel operators Livetts, puts his business and financial survival down to being “part marine entrepreneur, part Thames chameleon”, but there’s also a good streak of humanitarian in there as well.
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NewsEwoud Visser: DUC Marine
“You can’t stay still in this kind of market,” said Ewoud Visser of DUC Marine, the Netherlands-headquartered offshore services group. “You have to make a decision about whether to scale up and meet the new challenges, or just downsize.”
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NewsGrzegorz Mazerski: Deltamarin
“I thought I’d understood vessel design during my university courses,” said Grzegorz Mazerski of Finish ship designers Deltamarin, “but the three years I spent in a Polish yard after college were the real school.”
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NewsDennis Doerffel: REAP Systems
Being one of the first can be challenging. But the idea is to make sure that you are not also one of the last, Dennis Doerffel, founder of battery specialist REAP Systems, told ''MJ''.
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NewsHerman Groot Beumer: a ship-shaped future
Herman Groot Beumer of Netherlands-based motion compensated access systems specialist Barge Master, is sure “that the future of offshore construction will be ship-shaped”. However, there are a few hurdles to overcome first.
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NewsNiko Dalpis: Emigreen
It was either find something interesting “or take up Soduku” admitted Niko Dalpis, the man behind Emigreen, a company responsible for the ‘greening’ of a truly huge range of high profile workboats that cover everything from Dutch harbour craft to Norwegian polar exploration vessels.
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NewsPieter Kroezen: InandAut
“Back in the mid-90s, after the wall came down, West German companies were trying to sell into the former East Germany,” said Pieter Kroezen of Netherlands-based InandAut, but sometimes without as much success as they’d hoped.
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NewsPerry van Oossanen: Looking over the overlooked
“I don’t think innovation is the result of a clever idea in a single moment; it’s more about putting together all the pieces of a puzzle,” Perry van Oossanen told ''MJ''. “Slowly the lightbulb begins to glow.”
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NewsDenis Hogan: Lifting Equipment Engineers Association
“Getting three or four ‘options’ back from a straight question asking for advice isn’t good enough,” said Denis Hogan of LEEA, “an industry association should be able to give solid guidance on what to do”.
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NewsChris Feibusch: Drew Marine Signal & Safety
When Chris Feibusch of Drew Marine Signal & Safety moved across from his largely leisure marine background in 2010, he found himself in a world that matched time-sensitive logistics with the demands of Class 1 explosives.
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NewsChris Jakeman: B Marshall Marine
It’s been an interesting shift for Chris Jakeman: from working as a engineer with a specialism in mechatronics to boatbuilding. Especially as he wasn’t, in the beginning, even particularly interested in boats.
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NewsWind rotor for ships
Norsepower and Bore Ltd of Finland have announced the successful sea trial of Norsepower’s Rotor Sail Solution, a new wind propulsion technology for ships.
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NewsDon Cockrill: the realities of pilotage
Don Cockrill and his team in the UK Maritime Pilots Association are involved, he says “in trying to remedy, literally, centuries of mistrust”.
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NewsJas Singh: Auriga Energy
It was the closure of a small, space industry site that got Jas Singh thinking about “being involved in the energy industry of the future”: hydrogen.
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NewsSeawork International 2015 map and guide
Mercator Media Limited’s Seawork International looks set to be yet another exciting three days from 16-18 June 2015, and over the next pages of ''MJ'' you can plan out your route around this varied event. Held in ABP Docks in Southampton, UK this long-established event embraces an exhibition, innovations showcase, ...
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NewsThe big Five-Oh
Opening its doors in Oslo from 02-05 June 2015, the leading and longest-running maritime event week is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an expanded program.
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NewsSteady progress on Caithness-Moray transmission link
In recent months, steady progress has been made on the £1.2 billion scheme to install a new electricity transmission link across the Moray Firth between Caithness and Moray. So, what work has been carried out on the link so far? What work is currently being carried out? ...
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NewsDavid Rogers: ITS Marine
Getting the appropriate technology for an extremely dynamic marine environment is one thing, but as David Rogers of ITS Marine told MJ, putting in place the right crew is equally demanding.
