Researchers from the Swedish KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) have created a model to estimate the speed and extent of slime accumulation aiming to help ship operators schedule hull cleaning at ‘optimal’ times and save on fuel consumption costs. According to Cornelius Wittig, a PhD student in
An array of measures focused on efficiency needs to be applied to the existing global fleet in order for the maritime industry to minimize the amount of alternative fuels required and, thereby, cut the overall cost of the energy transition, a new paper from the Athens-based non-profit organization M
