Markets
Passengers & Yachting
Passengers & Yachting
Passenger vessels and yachts operate in a complex environment shaped by energy transition, stricter regulations and rising expectations for comfort and efficiency. MARIN supports designers, shipowners, operators and shipyards with independent expertise across the full lifecycle. By combining advanced testing, simulation and data-driven insights, we enable confident, future-proof decisions.
MARIN combines deep expertise in hydrodynamics, vessel behaviour and sustainable maritime systems for passenger vessels and yachts. Our core expertise includes:
This helps clients reduce technical and operational risk, improve comfort and efficiency, and make informed, regulation-ready decisions.
- Seakeeping & manoeuvrability – analysing vessel motions and controllability to ensure passenger comfort and safe operations.
- Damage stability & safety compliance – assessing vessel behaviour in damage scenarios and supporting compliance with international safety regulations.
- Hydrodynamic & propulsion performance – optimising hull forms, propulsion systems and vessel efficiency through advanced analysis and testing.
- Sustainable energy systems – supporting the transition to cleaner maritime solutions, including alternative fuels and energy optimisation.
This helps clients reduce technical and operational risk, improve comfort and efficiency, and make informed, regulation-ready decisions.
Contact
Enrico Della Valentina
senior project manager | team leader
OUR SERVICES
MARIN provides independent services to help clients design, validate and optimise passenger vessels and yachts throughout the project lifecycle — from early concept development to operational performance. Our service include:
OUR APPROACH
MARIN enables clients to experience and evaluate their designs, operations and policies before implementation — helping them reduce risk, improve performance and make confident decisions from concept to operation. Using model testing, simulations, digital twins and onboard measurements, we explore alternatives and optimise solutions together with our clients.
Our approach combines four complementary roles:
- Assess designs & operations – independent validation to reduce technical and operational risk
- Accelerate client innovation – testing new concepts and operational strategies before implementation
- Explore emerging technologies – evaluating solutions for energy transition, autonomy and AI-driven operations
- Advise policymakers & regulators – contributing independent expertise to international standards and regulation
our Solutions for your role
OUR Proven Impact
- Around 40% of global cruise vessel model testing conducted at MARIN
- Trusted partner to leading cruise, ferry and yacht builders worldwide
- Proven expertise in hydrodynamics, stability and performance optimisation
- Active contributor to international standards (ISO, ITTC, IMO)
our projects
Jips & Networks
Joint Industry Project
AI-Sail
Running
In MARIN Strategy Plan 2022-2025 ‘Beyond the horizon’, we have adopted challenging perspectives for the future of the maritime sector. One of these ...
Joint Industry Project
WISP 3
Running
WiSP 3 will focus on the standardisation of performance predictions of wind assisted ships and updates on the regulatory framework, including EEDI, ...
Network
BLUEFORUM
Running
The BlueForum is an initiative of MARIN to promote the smart and sustainable use of environment in the maritime sector, from energy to transport. ...
Why marin
MARIN is an independent knowledge partner with a strong international position at the interface of industry, research and regulation. Our strength lies in the unique combination of world-class facilities, in-house tools, advanced simulations, hydrodynamic model testing and data-driven methods.
Supported by international networks and a proven global track record, we deliver objective insights that reduce risk, improve performance and accelerate innovation across the passenger and yachting market.
Supported by international networks and a proven global track record, we deliver objective insights that reduce risk, improve performance and accelerate innovation across the passenger and yachting market.
Publications
Paper
Design loads for wave impacts — The Probabilistic Adaptive Screening (PAS) method for extreme non-linear hydrodynamic loads and responses of maritime structures
14 Apr 2026
Wave impact loads on maritime structures can cause casualties, damage, pollution of the sea and operational delays. Consequently, their extreme ...
Paper
OC7 phase I: CFD investigation of viscous forces on rectangular members of semisubmersibles
6 Apr 2026
In Phase I of the Offshore Code Comparison Collaboration 7 (OC7) project, we aim to address key questions related to the modeling of viscous ...
Research report
Literatuurstudie garnalenkotter duurzame en emissieloze vaartuigen voor de kust visserij
1 Apr 2026
De visserij staat onder politieke en maatschappelijke druk om te verduurzamen. Met name aan de kustvisserij, die al dan niet plaatsvindt in ...
Events
Conferences
Defensie Simulatie Symposium (DSS)
20 May 2026
De 2026 editie van het Defensie Simulatie Symposium (DSS) vindt plaats in de Onderzeebootloods op de RDM-Werf in Rotterdam op woensdag 20 mei 2026. ...
Conferences
Zero Emission Ferries in Europe
26 May 2026
MARIN is supporting partner of and speaker at the Zero Emssion Ferries in Europe conference. The mission of this conference is to discuss the ...
Networking
CRS Open Meeting
1 Jun 2026 - 4 Jun 2026
This meeting is organised to generate topics for potential research projects. New project proposals will be made for a selected set of research ...
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