Interviews

“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…

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,…

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.

“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…

“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…

“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…

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…

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.

Don Cockrill and his team in the UK Maritime Pilots Association are involved, he says “in trying to remedy, literally, centuries of mistrust”.

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.