While owners have long recognized the link between clean hulls and lower fuel costs, lack of reliable data has slowed investments in optimizing hull performance. But with improved sensor technologies ...
Grooming Robot on a small vessel at pier side as imaged by another grooming vehicle.Photo Courtesy Greensea Systems Autonomous hull grooming robot user interface. Photo Courtesy Greensea Systems Ship ...
When a ship sails through the sea, barnacles, mussels, algae, and other organisms stick to the hull of the vessel. This process is called biofouling – and it’s a big problem for the shipping industry.
This is the goal of a EU-funded project called HISMAR (Hull Identification System for Marine Autonomous Robotics). European researchers and engineers are working on an automated robotic cleaning ...
Lomar , a ship-owning and management group, and Alicia Bots , a tech start-up developing robotics and mobility solutions for the maritime, offshore, oil and gas industries, are partnering to develop a ...
The director of the Alabama State Port Authority, Jimmy Lyons, on Friday tried to ally fears about a ship-cleaning operation at a state docks facilities in Theodore. The 454-foot Boa Sub C Valletta ...
What happens to a battleship docked in airtight “mothball” mode for 20-plus years? It gathers itself a good thick coat of barnacles and bottomfeeders, according to Pacific Battleship Center, the ...
California water quality regulators are close to ordering the U.S. Maritime Administration to obtain state permits and monitor for pollution when it cleans the hulls of obsolete ships from the Suisun ...
When a ship sails through the sea, barnacles, mussels, algae, and other organisms stick to the hull of the vessel. This process is called biofouling – and it’s a big problem for the shipping industry.
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