Innovative materials and their wider use are important to improve the life cycle performance of European built ships and maritime structures, to reduce their environmental footprint, to make the industry more competitive on a global scale and, thus, to create and maintain employment.
Despite considerable progress in R&D as well as first commercial applications in recent years, the use of lightweight and other advanced materials in the maritime sector is lagging behind the potential. It takes a comprehensive initiative of a dedicated group to overcome existing barriers.
RAMSSES
The European Innovation Action RAMSSES (Realisation and Demonstration of Advanced Material Solutions for Sustainable and Efficient Ships) addresses the most relevant problems that hinder a broader and quicker technology uptake. The goal is to obtain recognition and an established role for advanced materials in the European maritime industry. The project comprises both practical measures that are dedicated to improving, assessing and showing the readiness of certain technologies, and strategic actions that aim at enhancing the innovation capability of the European maritime industry on the long run and in a sustainable manner.
The RAMSSES project was discussed in detail as part of SWZ|Maritime's November special on the use of composites in maritime industry. You can now download this article as a PDF (whether you are a subscriber or not) and we invite you to send us any comments or questions you may have through or LinkedIn page.
