Mario Biferali, PhD naval architect & yacht designer, Genoa University As technology constantly evolves and offers increasingly daring solutions that solve design problems linked to size, it should not come as a surprise that we are now seeing ever-larger “out of scale” private vessels occupying entire bays and ports which alter the perception of the […]
Concordia Damen’s optimised hull design ready for low water levels Transport along Europe’s inland waterways is vital to trade, with the river Rhine one of the continent’s busiest waterways. Part of the Rhine-Alpine corridor, the 1,232km-long river runs from the Swiss Alps through Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, France and the Netherlands. In recent years the Rhine […]
Knud E. Hansen river ship concept brings rhythm ‘n’ cruise to the Mississippi One of the most popular cruise destinations in the US is the Mighty Mississippi: the country’s second-longest river. Each year, tens of millions of visitors sign up to cruise portions of the river, picking from a wide range of itineraries and vessel […]
German startup has disruptive ambitions for cloud-based 3D ship design platform As a notoriously conservative industry it probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that ship design and construction wasn’t exactly among the pacesetters when it comes to cloud-based collaboration. However, a German startup company is hoping it can seize the advantage where other […]