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July 17, 2025
Eddie Brown, Director of Marine Products, Cummins, discusses with Maritime Reporter TV this marine power player’s latest advances in both emission reduction and fuel efficiency, with insights on the current role of drop-in fuels such as renewable diesel and bio fuels, as well as the ongoing fuel transition and the emergence of hybrid battery solutions, as well as Cummins recent work to deliver a methanol ready engine.
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July 17, 2025
Efficiency onboard has increasingly been distilled down to “data” and “digitalization”. But the onboard operations to get a ship safely, efficiently and with minimal fuel burn from point A to point B is a complex matter that entails the gathering, processing of information and the delivery of actionable intelligence. StormGeo’s CCO Espen Martinsen discusses with Maritime Reporter TV the value proposition behind the company’s development and delivery of Voyage Intelligence.
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Electric solutions are pervasive in maritime, and Volvo Penta now offers its IPS drive with an electric option. Jan-Willem Vissers, VP Marine Sales, Volvo Penta discusses the technical parameters of the new drive from Oslo at NorShipping 2025.
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July 8, 2025
Shipyard estimation is part art, part science, and all too important to any ship repair yard’s profitability. In our latest segment with Detyens Shipyards, Maritime Reporter TV visits with Ashley Cordiale, Estimator, for insights on how this SUNY Maritime graduates experience sailing with Military Sealift Command melds with her shoreside role in accurately, effectively bidding repair jobs for this iconic Charleston, SC shipyard. Cordiale discusses her past; the cumulative experience of the team around her, and the keys to effectively bidding ship repair jobs.
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July 6, 2025
The uptake of artificial intelligence in the maritime sector is as diverse as the industry itself. While AI and all that it entails is not entirely new, the ultimate use of AI tools – and the potential efficiency benefits that follow – is largely company, fleet and vessel specific. Terje Kristiansen, CEO, Shipnet, met with Maritime Reporter TV recently in Oslo to discuss the basics: getting started, practical advice on areas to leverage the tech, and the path forward for AI and maritime.
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Borrowing its experience in the offshore oil and gas business, MacGregor in 2018 launched an innovative gangway solution for the Offshore Wind industry. The gangways employ some critical technical features – permanent magnet motors and redundancy levels that exceed class requirements – that provide maritime operators maximum safety, efficiency & reliability. Bjørnar Berge, MacGregor, discusses with Maritime Reporter TV the value proposition of its gangway system in regards to how it extends the weather window, and revenue generation opportunities, for vessel owners and operators, as proven by operations in the Dogger Bank offshore wind field.
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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 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 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 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 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.
