In early 2013, global container operator Hamburg Süd, which operates a fleet of more than 105 vessels with a capacity of over 454,000 TEUs, replaced the pre-swirl stators originally installed on its Santa class vessels with the new Becker Marine Systems’ Twisted Fin (BTF), a further development of the Becker Mewis Duct.
Pekka Autere, Lead Analyst at Eniram explains in the following text how the validity of the container vessel Santa Catarina’s new propulsion system has been alayzed with the use the high frequency data collected from the vessel.
[mappress] Eniram, July 2, 2014