MagazineHuman-centred design iterations for operational safety and efficiency
MARIN Report 147
26 May 2026
Humans remain at the heart of complex maritime operations, and their input is essential when shaping safe and practical vessel designs. By ...
operations and human factorssimulators
MagazineCrewed–Uncrewed Teaming: testing tomorrow’s naval operations today
MARIN Report 147
26 May 2026
The Royal Netherlands Navy envisions a future in which crewed and uncrewed systems operate side by side as one cohesive fleet. To achieve this ...
MagazineSignificant energy savings revealed by MARIN self-propulsion tests
MARIN Report 147
26 May 2026
After successful model tests exploring the open water characteristics of an ABB DynafinTM - a full electric cycloidal propulsion system driven by ...
MagazineTechno-economic analysis of the Waddenzee
MARIN Report 147
26 May 2026
Since 2022, MARIN has been developing NEEDS, a dynamic techno-economic model designed to assist policymakers, shipowners, and national authorities ...
MagazineExpanding simulations with XR
MARIN Report 147
26 May 2026
Maritime concepts increasingly rely on complex operations performed in challenging environmental conditions. Yet critical decisions about both the ...
simulationsdata sciencesimulators
MagazineSYNERGETICS accelerates the green transformation of inland and coastal shipping
MARIN Report 147
26 May 2026
Europe’s inland and coastal fleets hold immense potential for rapid emissions reduction if this can be achieved through smart, targeted retrofits. ...
MagazineMARIN performs landmark industry project on the largest double-ended ferry in the world
MARIN Report 146
25 Jan 2026
In an important maritime industry milestone, the largest double-ended ferry ever seen in the world is now sailing across the English Channel. This ...
cruise and ferryseakeepingtransport and shipping
MagazinePod propulsion within wide seakeeping operational profiles
MARIN Report 146
20 Jan 2026
Operating the world's largest double-ended ferry on an open sea route presents formidable challenges from both seakeeping and powering perspectives. ...
seakeepingpoweringpropulsionseakeeping performance
MagazineCaptive manoeuvring model tests provide best quality data for new symmetrical ferry design
MARIN Report 146
20 Jan 2026
Due to the P&O Pioneer class ferry being much larger compared to other ships sailing the same route, and the unusual propulsion and steering ...
MagazineA scale model for hydrostructural investigation
MARIN Report 146
20 Jan 2026
If ships become larger, they become more flexible, and this can have an important influence on the design loads of ships. Typically, this means ...
hydrostructural
MagazineDetermining loads for a challenging symmetrical ferry design
MARIN Report 146
20 Jan 2026
Particularly when it involves novel or complex ship structures, MARIN assists its clients with determining the loads on the ship that are necessary ...
model testing
MagazineWave-induced loads and motions in operation
MARIN Report 146
20 Jan 2026
A double-ended ferry is of course designed to save time when manoeuvring and berthing, which in turn leads to a reduction in fuel consumption, and ...
MagazineFull-scale port manoeuvring simulations for Dover and Calais
MARIN Report 146
20 Jan 2026
To test and verify the behaviour of the ferry in realistic conditions, two captains carried out various manoeuvres in a virtual environment on one ...
MagazineOcergy returns to MARIN for advanced testing of OCG-Wind Float
MARIN Report 145
5 Dec 2025
At the start of the year, Ocergy returned to MARIN for the third time to test the 15+MW design of its OCG-Wind™ Float—a floating wind platform ...
wind farmsfloating wind turbineoffshore windoffshore
MagazineMARIN and SolarDuck push boundaries with floating solar array tests
MARIN Report 145
5 Dec 2025
In a groundbreaking collaboration, MARIN and the offshore solar pioneer SolarDuck have successfully completed high-precision stationkeeping tests of ...
floating solarearly innovations and solutionsoffshore operationsoffshore energyoffshore