Introduction
Anton Kisjes holds the position of Project Manager at the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands. He graduated with his thesis about wind-assistance for merchant vessels. At MARIN his work consists of conducting manoeuvring experiments and simulations to help clients with improving and understand the manoeuvrability of ships.
Expertise areas
Publications
Magazine
Wind-assisted propulsion gains momentum
5 Mar 2025
According to Offshore Energy Magazine, 2024 was “a year to remember” for wind-assisted ship propulsion, and the outlook over the years to come looks ...
Paper
A new experimental setup to test the influence of wind propulsion on manoeuvring and seakeeping
22 Oct 2024
With the rapid growth in wind propulsion installations within the market, it becomes increasingly relevant to define reliable test procedures to ...
Magazine
Manoeuvring and seakeeping with wind propulsion
29 Mar 2024
The market introduction of wind propulsion continues to accelerate with the fleet of commercial ships equipped doubling in the last year.And if you ...
Paper
Steering with wind propulsion
11 Sep 2023
Although sizeable compared to other energy saving measures, the majority of present installations of wind propulsion now sailing are relatively ...
Paper
WISP2 project on wind propulsion performance prediction methods and manoeuvring
16 Feb 2023
MARIN, together with American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), started the second WiSP Joint Industry Project which has the objective to expand the ...
Paper
Manoeuvring experiments, mathematical model and sensitivity analysis for test-case ferry
24 May 2022
This paper presents an overview of an experimental and numerical campaign for a test-case ferry. The study consisted in captive model tests, free ...
Magazine
Improving the safety of passenger ships with the MARIN Ferry
30 Sep 2021
In 2018 MARIN participated in the investigation directed by the Sewol Investigation Commission on the sinking of theKorean ferry M/V Sewol. The ship ...
Paper
Heel angles in turn and passenger safety
4 Mar 2020
The present paper addresses the issue of heel angles in turn, focusing on experimental results, existing regulations and passenger safety. ...
Paper
Seakeeping and manoeuvring for wind assisted ships
15 Oct 2019
Research on Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion (WASP) has until now focussed on performance in steady conditions whereas unsteady behaviour is an ...
Paper
Uncertainty analysis of free running manoeuvring model test on a modern ferry, with emphasis on heel angles
9 Jun 2019
This paper presents an uncertainty study on the manoeuvring behaviour of a twin screw ferry. In particular, we are interested in heel angles that ...
Paper
Quantifying the Uncertainty of the Crabbing Capability
17 Jun 2018
Crabbing is a critical manoeuvre that requires all of the ship’s propulsors to counteract environmental forces. It is acomplex hydrodynamic scenario ...
