by | Mar 15, 2020 | Ship Design and Construction
This is the first in a series of articles on ‘Role of a Naval Architect’ by Mr Bijit Sarkar, a Naval Architect with 35+ years of experience in ship design and shipbuilding. I would define a naval architect as one who has the ability to greet the client as...
by | Mar 1, 2020 | Hydrodynamics and Resistance, Ship Design and Construction
By Tamal Mukherjee, This is the Part 1 of a two part article on the Bulbous Bow. Part 2 can be accessed here *This article originally appeared in May 2019 edition of Marine Engineers Review (India), the Journal of Institute of Marine Engineers India. It is being...
by | Feb 23, 2020 | Subsea Engineering
Over the last 20 years, the interest in offshore wind power generation has increased substantially. Offshore Wind Energy currently provides only 0.3% of world power generation, but the potential is really vast. In the next 20 years the offshore wind industry is set to...
by | Feb 15, 2020 | Marine Operations, Mooring
Anchoring is a fundamental and sensitive operation for a vessel. When a vessel is at anchor, it swings to align itself along the direction of the dominant environment. The anchor is supposed to hold the vessel in varying environmental conditions depending on where the...
by | Feb 8, 2020 | Marine Transportation
Introduction Lashing of a deck cargo on a ship involves different means and mechanisms to secure the cargo to the deck of the ship. This ‘securing’ is important to contain the movement of the cargo in view of the ship motions during the transportation. The simplest...
