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June 29, 2025
Pre-Covid, 90% of Deltamarin’s ship design projects were based on conventional fuel, 10% on alternative fuel. Today, that script has completely flipped according to Esa Jokioinen and Mia Elg, Deltamarin, with approximately 95% of new project requests centered on hybrids and alternative fuels. Take a deep dive with Deltamarin’s Head of R&D and Sales Director for key tips and insights on planning a successful hybrid/alternative fuels ship design and construction project, start to finish.
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June 29, 2025
Fuel transition in maritime is underway, but the future is anything but certain as alternative fuel availability, compatibility and particularly cost are still somewhat of a mystery. Alfa Laval embraces and is planning for that uncertainty, and within all of it systems the term ‘flexibility’ is far more than marketing catchphrase. Anders Lindmark, Business Unit President Heat & Gas Systems, Alfa Laval, discusses specifically how the company’s boiler solutions are engineered for fuel flexibility today.
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June 29, 2025
The maritime industry is besieged with new regulations on multiple fronts, and the digitalization requirements are central to everything, from safe and efficient operations to decarbonization. On the exhibition floor at NorShipping 2025, Maritime Reporter TV connected with a trio of executives from Navtor to discuss the pace of change and how Navtor engages with industry to develop solutions that help ease the transition.
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June 22, 2025
Driven by environmental regulations, keeping a clean hull is in vogue more than ever, but the business of maintaining a clean ship hull transcends checking off a box for regulators. Clean hulls are proven to reduce fuel consumption and emissions, and today there are a plethora of traditional diver based solutions and a long list of up and coming robotic solutions. Subsea Global Solutions offers both, and Karl Lander, SGS’ Environmental Services Director visited with Maritime Reporter TV to discuss the business case advantages. While final rules from the IMO will take years to formulate and enact, today ports are the drivers to modern hull cleaning and containment solutions.
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June 22, 2025
As the shipyards struggle to effectively recruit and retain new welders to replace the aging workforce, attention increasingly turns to key system suppliers like ESAB, a global welding and cutting equipment. A host of continuous improvement across its welding portfolio – from its Warrior Edge to WeldCloud connectivity, RobustFeed wire feed and ECHO communications – all roads lead to improved efficiency and performance, with ease of training and use for the welder. Jeff Chittim, North America Senior Product Manager, ESAB, discusses latest updates with Maritime Reporter TV.
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June 16, 2025
NorShipping 2025 celebrated its 60th anniversary earlier this month, a strong event with true international participation: digitalization, decarbonization, autonomy & artificial intelligence dominated the conference room chats and exhibition halls. Maritime Reporter TV caught up with NorShipping Director Sidsel Norvik on the sidelines at the event to discuss the post-Covid rebound and the highlights of the exhibition.
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June 15, 2025
With nearly 34 years of experience with Chevron, Ayten Yavuz, GM, Chevron Marine Lubricants, discusses with Maritime Reporter TV the intricacies of building and maintaining a true global network to supply critical lubricants to commercial ships. The Chevron Marine Lubricants offer goes far beyond supply and includes close collaboration with clients to help create and deliver innovative solutions in product and service to keep fleets running.
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June 12, 2025
Uli Selbach runs SMM which takes place every two years in Hamburg, arguably the biggest, best and most influential maritime trade exhibition in the world. Maritime Reporter TV ran into Selbach in Oslo at NorShipping 2025, where he discussed a broad palette of topics, from SMM 2026 to his recent training experience with the German Navy, an experience which was instrumental in helping to expand this maritime leader’s insights on all matters maritime and military.
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June 10, 2025
As the marine industry transitions from traditional diesel fuels to a myriad of hybrid and electric solutions, Regal Rexnord stands ready with a family of drivetrain solutions to achieve efficiency results.
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June 9, 2025
Siemens Energy has had its hands on a number of groundbreaking ship design and construction projects globally, projects that highlight the possibilities and the challenges inherent in being a technology pioneer. Ed Schwarz, Head of Marine Solutions Sales for Siemens Energy in the US and Canada, give an insider’s view of some practical steps to take if electrification is on an organization’s fleet expansion agenda.
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May 25, 2025
Titomic is ‘leading the future’ with Cold Spray Solutions, additive manufacturing of new products and components for newbuild and repair projects. Chris Myers, SVP Global Growth; and James Caldwell, Regional Sales Manager APAC, discuss the advantages that Titomic’s additive manufacturing can deliver in the ability to make critical parts production – parts up to 9m long – faster and cheaper for offshore energy and maritime companies.
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May 18, 2025
Digital transformation is generally viewed by maritime as easy to say, difficult to integrate. But as Staci Satterwhite, CEO, ABS Wavesight discusses ‘digitalization’ and all that it entails – including its role in helping vessel owners to cut fuel costs and emission – should not be seen as a mountain to climb. As with other tech evolutions, it’s a step process, and in this interview with Maritime Reporter TV Satterwhite discusses the basics, the low-hanging fruit that vessel owners can address today.
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May 12, 2025
Experienced welders in shipyards are an increasingly rare commodity. As the industry searches for the next generation, leaders in the welding space such as ESAB are developing the physical and the software tools that are cornerstone to efficient use of weld material. In this episode of Maritime Reporter TV, Martin Meyer, Global Product Manager, Gas Monitoring Software, ESAB, discusses the strategic advantage of software tool FloCloud, a system that intuitively helps shipyards to generate more efficient, effective and cost-effective welds.
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May 7, 2025
As maritime faces down increasingly strict emission regulation, Phil Lewis, Director of Research, Intelatus, breaks down latest developments in the market, taking a deep dive into the emerging palette of colors in relation to a fuel’s cleanliness; a focus on the technology outside of alternative fuels that are being deployed today to help vessel owner/operators increase efficiency and shave fuel costs.
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April 21, 2025
While Xenos Marine is a relatively new name in the Gulf of America salvage and decommissioning market, it’s a new name with some familiar faces. Matt Fish, MD, Xenos Marine has partnered with Kevin Teichman and T&T Salvage to tackle the growing need for offshore structure decommissioning work. The workhorse of the fleet will be the recently reinvigorated TX-10000, a unique heavy lift asset that was originally built as the VB 10000 for Versabar, and participated for more than a year in one of the country’s largest and most challenging salvage projects ever: the cutting apart and raising of the Golden Ray, a nearly 700-ft. long car carrier that flipped in the St. Simons Sound near Georgia's Port of Brunswick in September 2019.
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April 21, 2025
In business time is money, in Man Overboard rescue, time spent overboard in the water is a matter of life and death. A new name in MOB rescue is Zelim, which has engineered and will deliver for Ambassador Cruise Lines an intelligent detection system which integrates onboard CCTV with an AI engine to detect, categorize and track people in the water. Sam Mayall, CEO, and Doug Lothian, CTO visit with Maritime Reporter TV to discuss the tech, the new contract and the path to a fully class certified system.
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April 14, 2025
With a diverse maritime and logistics operation supporting more than 8,000 careers on land and at sea, Saltchuk has a robust workforce development initiative across its brands. Mark Tabbutt, Chairman, Saltchuk, discusses with Maritime Reporter TV on a pair of specific recent investments in Puerto Rico, as well as workforce development as a corporate imperative.
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March 25, 2025
As the global maritime market steams toward Net Zero, there are multiple fuels and hybrid solutions pending the vessel type, size and trading pattern. In this segment, Phil Lewis, Director of Research, Intelatus, breaks down the prospects, use and challenges for further incorporation of battery solutions of boats and ships.
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March 7, 2025
Scripps Institution of Oceanography recently released an RFP to shipyards to build the organizations innovative hydrogen hybrid research vessel, a ship that is designed with the future in mind with enough tankage to eventually convert the onboard diesel generators to methanol. Bruce Appelgate, Associate Director, Scripps Oceanography, discusses the thought behind the Glosten-designed ship, with emphasis on its core mission: to effectively study the world’s oceans while leaving minimal exhaust and noise emission footprints.
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February 26, 2025
As the global maritime sector stares down the requirement to dramatically cut emissions with 2050 and ‘net zero’ as the holy grail, all options are on the table, including nuclear power. Phil Lewis, Director of Research, Intelatus, does what he does best: he cuts through the noise and delivers tangible insight and intel on the pace, direction and challenges to incorporating nuclear power in the commercial maritime sector.
