After the celebration of the Maritime Awards Gala with the Ship of the Year Award 2024 for the emission-free ferry built by Holland Shipyards for Riveer’s ferry service from Gorinchem, this November issue is again dedicated to the energy transition. Both digitalisation and energy from especially wind turbines at sea have to make our energy supply in shipping and on land more climate friendly.
Conferences and exhibitions are still vital for the dissemination of knowledge. As such, our editor Annelinde Gerritsen attended the International Conference on Computer Applications in Shipbuilding (ICCAS) 2024 organised by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) in Genoa, Italy, from September 10 to 13. In two major articles, the first in this issue and the next in December, she reports on all the knowledge exchanged there.
In this context, also read the article about Dassault Systèmes, which originated from the aircraft industry, but also developed software for shipyards. Apparently, aircraft construction software can also be applied in shipbuilding, because even our own Damen Shipyards decided to apply this system in all its business processes back in 2017. It enables Damen to not only build ships as efficiently as possible, but also helps to make the yards climate neutral.
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Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference
In addition, journalist Hans Heynen divulges some of the new developments on display at the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) organised by Navingo at the RAI in Amsterdam on November 26-27. By focusing on developments in the offshore energy field, the OEEC has developed into a high-level platform, which is well worth the visit.
A separate mention should be made of Heynen’s article on engineering firm Iv from Papendrecht that has developed an offshore platform with not only a transformer station, but also an installation for converting the electricity generated by wind into hydrogen. The excess electricity can thereby be reshaped into a future-valuable, fossil-free fuel.
Also read: SWZ|Maritime’s September 2024 issue: Superyachts and superdrones
Human factors
But we must not forget that with everything we conceive and develop, it is other people who must implement it or work with it. Therefore, also in this issue, an article about the Human Factors 2024 Conference that took place October 8-10 in Wageningen. A conference again organised by RINA, but together with the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN). Our thanks go to Hans Huisman, Team Leader Human Factors, Maritime Operations at MARIN, for his report on this.
This is editor-in-chief Antoon Oosting’s editorial accompanying the November 2024 issue.
Also read: SWZ|Maritime’s July-August 2024 issue: Germany, a good client for Dutch shipbuilding
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The articles in SWZ|Maritime’s October issue
In addition to the regular sections such as Dutch news, Global news, book reviews, news from the KNVTS and Mars Report, the articles in the November issue are:
- Predicting the future (ICCAS report)
- How digital technologies are transforming shipbuilding
- Offshore sector can speed up energy transition
- Offshore wind targets require considerable effort
- Floating wind turbines open new markets
- Wave energy has huge potential
- Carbon capture crucial for energy transition
- Need for seabed security grows in offshore
- Integrating human factors from design to operation
- CEDA – Shattering the glass ceiling
- CEDA – Future fuels: No ‘one size fits all’
Picture: The emission-free and lightweight ferry Gorinchem XII, seen here leaving the port of Sleeuwijk, won the Ship of the Year Award 2024. The ship was praised for its design, one-man operation and charging infrastructure (photo Holland Shipyards Group, cover picture of SWZ|Maritime’s November 2024 issue).
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