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Introduction
Karola was born in Amsterdam the Netherlands. She got her MSc degree in Marine Technology at Delft University of Technology. After graduation she started working as Project Manager at Maritime Research Institute Netherlands MARIN. In 2015 she moved to Shanghai to become MARIN representative in China to serve the shipbuilding industry in Asia and strengthen the cooperation with Shanghai Ship Shipping Research Institute. In 2018 she returned to the Netherlands and joined the Cruise Ferry team at MARIN as Senior Project Manager.
Expertise areas
Publications
Magazine
"The energy transition is the biggest challenge for the passenger vessel sector"
Sep 30, 2021
Within the passenger market the most important research topics for MARIN are safety, comfort, and fuel/emission reduction.Almost all large cruise ...
Magazine
Close cooperation in China
Dec 15, 2018
Reading time 6 minutes
In the last decade China became the largest shipbuilding nation in the world and cooperation with MARIN increased rapidly. This article highlights ...
Paper
Improving performance of inland ships with hull optimizations, benefits and pitfalls
Sep 18, 2017
Inland waterway transport provides an environmentally friendly alternative for the transport of goods in those areas where an inland waterway ...
Paper
Correlation allowances in model tests results - A delicate balance between performance, accuracy and commercial interests?
Jun 19, 2016
Model tests at ballast and design draught are used to convert the sea trial results from the ballast trial draught to the contractual design ...
Paper
DiStributed propulsion: a novel concept for inland vessels
Jun 17, 2015
In the drive to reduce the full consumption of inland vessels, one of the main limitations, the risk of propeller ventilation was investigated. Aim ...
Paper
Performance Measurements of European Inland Ships
Sep 17, 2014
In the EU project MoveIT, it is opted to improve the energy efficiency of inland vessels by improving the performance of these vessels. In order to ...
Paper
Promising Hydrodynamic Improvements For Inland Vessels
Sep 10, 2014
In the EU project Move IT! and the Joint Industry Project SAVE, extensive CFD calculations have been performed for several existing inland vessels. ...
Paper
Traditions broken in modern container ship design
May 22, 2014
The design of a say 5 year 'young' container ship is usually the result of an optimisation for maximum speed at design draught. Such design is ...
Magazine
Barge optimisation leads to cuts in fuel consumption
Aug 30, 2013
Reading time 9 minutes
MARIN has a specialist inland waterway transport team dedicated to improving the performance of inland vessels and this is currently focusing on ...
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Christian VeldhuisTeam Leader Ships - Simulation & Development | Senior Project Manager | Research coordinator Zero Emission Shipping