Interviews

“I have to have my feet placed pretty firmly in two camps,” explains Brian Archibald, head of marine services, engineering and transportation for Orkney, “Even if these sometimes appear to have contradictory…

Time goes quickly in the Tugs & Towing business and Maritime Journals illustrious correspondent Jack Gaston has now been documenting the industrys progress for MJ for 20 years.

“There’s no point in building a boat for tomorrow based on today’s technology,” says Bob Cripps of Longitude Consulting Engineers, part of LOC Group. “A design has to have room to evolve.”

“From the numbers point of view it can look like a fantastic boat – but when a design gets out onto the waves and starts bouncing around, then you know if its…

“If you measure the waves washing up on a Cornish coast, you can ‘see back in time’ to the storm that created them, perhaps tens of thousands of kilometres away,” says Stephen…

“In all sectors, those who had vision, those who saw that the environmental issues being brought to the table wouldn’t just fade away, these manufacturers now have a clear lead,” says Jose…

“In the early years things might have been easier, but there was no importance attached to innovation,” says Paolo Moretti, RINA’s marine general manager.

Gerhard Kutt, of internationally based (Hydrofoil Assisted Water Craft) HAWC Technologies absorbed lessons in hydrodynamics from an interesting perspective, the wake of a speedboat.

“It’s not about selling space. In fact, sometimes it can be a little like being a marriage broker, says Europort exhibition manager Raymond Siliakus.

“This job is all about saving lives. You have to have a passion for it. It simply can’t just be about selling equipment,” explains Benny Carlsen, vice president of Denmark’s Viking Life-Saving…