Publications
Magazine
Maximising speed through wind & waves
Dec 7, 2020
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Crew Transfer Vessels (CTV) are essential for the maintenance of offshore wind turbines. Their high speed operation in waves can benefit from an ...
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Do It: catching waves at 30 knots!
Sep 13, 2019
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The Do It project aims to increase the operability of small boat operations by the forward prediction of vessel motions using radar remote sensing ...
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Why wait for the seventh wave?
Nov 23, 2016
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The Royal Netherlands Navy, NLR (the Dutch Aerospace Laboratory), RADAC, Amarcon/ABB and MARIN joined in the 'Salute' project to work out a ...
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Ensuring design meets operating reality
Aug 29, 2014
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Monitoring - Does your ship perform as expected? Is the operating environment as anticipated? Should the next vessel be the same? MARIN helps ...
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Designed for waves
Aug 30, 2013
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Platform Supply Vessels are the ultimate challenge when it comes to ship design. While calm water performance is important, for these ships it is ...
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Comparisons of Means for Estimating Sea States from an Advancing Large Container Ship
Jul 17, 2013
Voyages were constructed from the AIS data by collecting information of ships crossing the boundaries of the study area. For each crossing line at ...
Paper
Full scale container ship cross section loads - first results
Sep 19, 2012
A measurement campaign is being carried out onboard a 9300 TEU container vessel. Results for a measurement in storm conditions have been compared to ...
Magazine
Moonpool mysteries
Dec 16, 2011
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Report highlights several initiatives going on investigating the unknowns of the moonpool including test programmes and a new Joint Industry Project.
Magazine
Yachting - a highly demanding market
Aug 2, 2011
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MARIN has long been committed to serving the global yachting market; assisting in the engineering of innovative designs and complex systems. These ...
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Is cargo securing in need of shoring up?
Dec 14, 2010
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Supported by the Dutch government, MARIN initiated the Lashing@Sea Joint Industry Project to obtain a snapshot of current
cargo securing practices ...
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Exactly how foul is the fouling problem?
Aug 12, 2009
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Since the ban on tributyltin (TBT) anti-fouling paints from 2003, the effect of fouling on ship performance has again become an issue. TBT ...
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MARIN tests Fall Pipe Ship design for Boskalis
Apr 24, 2009
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Fall Pipe Ships combine the robustness of a working vessel with the precision of a surgeon as they drop rocks on exactly the right place. This ...
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The Achilles heel of sea transport
Oct 17, 2007
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Crew, vessel and cargo, are assumed ready for the perils of the sea when they have met the industry standards and regulations but the game changes ...
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Lashing@Sea in pursuit of safety and efficiency
Aug 1, 2006
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A Joint Industry Project has been launched to address the need for the right balance between safety and operational efficiency for container, ro-ro ...
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Is state-of-the-art decision support technology all it's cracked up to be?
Apr 1, 2006
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In the coming years there will be an increasing number of heavy cargo transports and offshore installations of medium and heavy weight modules. ...
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Monitoring software for Imtech UniMACS' Integrated Bridge System
Jan 1, 2006
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Advisory systems are being used more and more frequently onboard ships to assist officers in operating the ship more safely and economically. By ...
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Lashing@Sea JIP addresses the problem of containers lost at sea
Sep 1, 2005
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Unofficial sources estimate that the number of containers lost at sea worldwide is between 2,000 and 10,000 each
year. Lashing@Sea aims to tie down ...
Paper
Offshore Monitoring; Real World Data for Design, Engineering and Operation
May 1, 2005
The challenging development of new platform concepts and their installation in deeper water in more remote areas and more severe weather conditions ...
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Hull structural loads at the heart of CRS research
Nov 1, 2004
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With ship owners, classification societies and shipyards among its members, it is no surprise that the research area of ship structures has received ...
Magazine
MASTering the art…
Aug 1, 2004
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The 'Best Mast' project aims to tackle the roblems of mast design as current industry knowledge is often stretched beyond all previous experience.
Magazine
SMACS project investigates hi-tech software performance
Sep 1, 2003
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Numerical tools allow unusual structures to be designed and operated, where traditional ship building experience no
longer applies. Despite the ...
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Cavitation on waterjet pump made visible
Dec 1, 2002
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WŠrtsilŠ Jets, the Royal Netherlands Navy and MARIN have joined forces to examine the cavitation characteristics of waterjet impellers.
Magazine
'Pods in Service' initiative provides invaluable data
Dec 1, 2001
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In the last few years there has been a breakthrough in the application of podded propellers.Report outlines the
short history of the Joint Industry ...
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OWASE II: capturing waves
Apr 1, 2001
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Wind,waves and currents: the environment that ships and offshore structures have to stand up against. Having
accurate information on the actual ...