14 Sep 2023, Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London
The MarRI-UK event at the London International Shipping Week 2023 was successfully completed with two hours fully packed agenda.
The event highlighted ‘the UK’s Academia Capacity and Capability for Shipbuilding” for the National Shipbuilding Office (NSO). Rod Paterson, Deputy Director of National Shipbuilding Office, gave a speech about the importance of Academia in delivering the refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy. An overview of the findings of the study was presented by Prof. Stephen Turnock from University of Southampton.
DfT funded projects have produced a huge amount of impacts not only on the triggering of private investment on technology and innovation, but also on commercial viability. Five case studies were presented at the event from the project coordinators.
Agenda
| Topics | Presenters |
| Opening remarks | Simon Reid, Director of MarRI-UK |
| DfT Keynote speech | Petra Wilkinson, Director of Maritime, Department for Transport |
| MarRI-UK refreshed strategy update | Simon Reid |
| The Importance of Academia in delivering the National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh | Rod Paterson, Deputy Director, NSO |
| UK Shipbuilding Research Capabilities | Prof. Stephen Turnock, Head of School of Engineering, University of Southampton |
| Impact from DfT funded projects | Wenjuan Wang, Programme Manager, MarRI-UK |
| Case studies | |
| Emission Free Propulsion of Offshore Service Vessels | Martin Nürnberg, Director, OS Energy |
| Maritime Hydrogen Highway | George Skinner, Project Manager, Grace Rawnsley, Director of Sustainability and Net Zero Transition, PLA |
| Advanced Zero Emission Ammonia Engines for Future Marine Applications | Prof. Alasdair Cairns, University of Nottingham |
| Shipping and Port Interfaces In New Era (SPINE) | Nick Lambert, Chairman, MSE International |
| Wavemaster Zero C (WMZC) | Enora Pichon, Innovation Manager, Bibby Marine |
| MarRI-UK Research on Autonomy, Clean Maritime and Digital Shipyard | Wenjuan Wang |
| Questions and panel discussion | All |
| Closing remarks | Simon Reid |
Feedbacks
“It was a pleasure to attend the event that MarRI-UK ran during London International Shipping Week (LISW) ‘Unleashing the potential of maritime research and innovation through collaboration’ at the Queen Elizabeth Centre II on the 14th September. Events such as this are a key vehicle to spark innovation, to promote the UK maritime sector internationally and to drive growth in our economy. I look forward to continuing to work with the researchers, academics, industry experts, and organisations involved in delivering the remaining R&D projects that the Department for Transport has sponsored ” – Petra Wilkinson CBE, Director of Maritime, Department for Transport
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“London International Shipping Week hosted the maritime world with hundreds of events across London, bringing people together to reflect, celebrate success and confront the many challenges facing the Sector. MarRI-UK is proud of our members’ valuable contributions across many events and our own headline event showcased the valuable outcomes we deliver.” – Simon Reid, Director, MarRI-UK
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“Found the session really useful, interesting to hear from different experts and their approaches within their own areas of expertise. Useful UK Gov dept insights too. Great work by all at MarRI-UK for previous work and pulling this session together.” – Nigel Quinn, CEO Bibby Marine Ltd
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