Interviews

“Waste heat is the world’s largest unused energy source,” Marcel Flipse of Orcan Energy told MJ. “We have solar, hydro, wind… but this is so simple - and it has vast potential…

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…

“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,”

According to Andrew Calderbank-Link, Operations Director, Seacat Services, balancing offshore energy support vessel market dynamics is crucial to maintaining offshore wind growth.

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.

Charles Hammond OBE, Group Chief Executive, Forth Ports, which operates eight ports on the UK East coast says his team is ‘Brexit ready’.

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?”

“Ask who wants a change? Everybody. But ask who wants to change – the answer is usually, ‘nobody’…” Asbjørn Halsebakke told MJ.

According to Jason Cooney of Tsaks Consulting, winning maritime and shipping industry tenders should now always involve ‘best practice bid writing techniques’.