FERRIES 2023: The passenger expertise and electrical ferries

On November 15, Day 2 of Marine Log’s FERRIES 2023 convention, David Tyler, co-founder of Artemis Applied sciences—a high-performance maritime design and utilized applied sciences firm—will define the EF-24 passenger ferry and the way electrical ferries can improve the passenger expertise.

The EF-24 passenger ferry supplies an economical public transport resolution that helps handle air air pollution, congestion, and noise. The ferry is powered by Artemis’ eFoiler electrical propulsion system, with a high pace of 38 knots and a foiling vary of 115 nautical miles at 25 knots.

Throughout his presentation, Tyler goals to go over the eFoiler know-how along with:

• Constructing Belfast Maritime cluster as a world chief in maritime innovation.
• Pioneer workboat check program and validation of know-how.
• Constructing and launching the primary Artemis EF-24 passenger ferry with Condor Ferries and its U.S. utility.

The primary EF-24 passenger ferry will probably be launched in 2024, and operated by Condor Ferries, servicing a route between Belfast and Bangor, Northern Eire. 

Meet David Tyler

A director and shareholder of Artemis Applied sciences, Tyler is a founding member of Artemis Applied sciences. Previous to that, he was industrial director for Artemis Racing and a former worldwide hockey participant. Having beforehand labored at IMG and Havas Media, he based Tyler Sports activities Administration in 2009, representing a powerful portfolio of purchasers together with Mo Farah, Mike Brown, Iain Percy OBE, Christine Ohuruogu MBE, and Allan Wells MBE. After Tyler Sports activities Administration was acquired in 2014, he joined Artemis Racing to guide the Swedish America’s Cup workforce’s industrial program, earlier than co-founding Artemis Applied sciences. Tyler can be a founding trustee of the Andrew Simpson Basis. He’s chargeable for gross sales, advertising and marketing, and product improvement technique at Artemis Applied sciences.

FERRIES 2023: The Convention

Set to happen on the Hyatt Regency Jersey Metropolis on the Hudson, November 14-15 in Jersey Metropolis, N.J., the thirty sixth annual Marine Log FERRIES convention may have as its theme “Designing in the present day’s ferries for future operations.”

The venue, with floor-to-ceiling home windows overlooking ferry visitors on the Hudson River, is a fast ferry experience from New York Metropolis.

Delivering two days of in-person discussions, dynamic Q&A classes, and a number of networking alternatives, FERRIES 2023 will probably be a chance for the North American ferry trade to come back collectively to share experiences, community, search for new suppliers and reconnect with current suppliers.

The artwork of designing or upgrading ferries takes loads into consideration exterior of the vessel’s blueprints. Making a greener ferry is a design selection and so is enhancing the passenger expertise.

FERRIES 2023 will give attention to how in the present day’s ferries—these underneath development, coming on-line quickly, or already in operation—may be ready for the altering scope of future operations.

As ever, a spotlight of this system will probably be on classes discovered from hard-earned, real-life expertise. As well as, this system will discover new methods to satisfy financial and environmental targets via advances in know-how, progressive approaches to working a vessel, and the most recent tendencies in ferry design.

Along with thought leaders presenting on subjects related to the ferry trade, three panels have been integrated on this 12 months’s program centered on ferry operator challenges and successes, battery choices for ferries, and an attention-grabbing overview and take a look at the brand new Governors Island ferry challenge.

Different subjects will discover leveraging shoreside terminals and infrastructure to extend income; low-carbon options, corresponding to electrical, hydrogen and hybrid choices; what’s trending in ferry designs being delivered in the present day; and extra.

The Tour

Following the tip of convention classes, on November 15, an trade tour will probably be supplied to a restricted variety of attendees. This 12 months’s tour may have attendees board a NYC Ferry vessel and tour the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the place it is going to be taught extra about NYC Ferry’s Homeport Pier C, its deisgn and development.

Company may even be taught the historical past of the realm and uncover plans for Homepoort II in Pink Hook. Hornblower will spherical out the dialog with an inside take a look at NYC Ferry’s marine operations and extra.

The whole agenda may be discovered right here.

For inquiries relating to sponsorships or methods you possibly can join with FERRIES 2023 attendees, contact David Harkey at dharkey@sbpub.com.

The Sponsors—So Far

The next organizations are signed as much as sponsor FERRIES 2023, though extra will probably be introduced quickly:

Anchor (Platinum)

VPS (Platinum)

Bayonne Dry Dock (Cocktail Reception)

Siemens Vitality (Pre-Convention Cocktail Celebration)

W&O (Luncheon)

PPG (Registration)

Coastal Marine Tools (Laynards)

ABB (Gold)

Glosten (Gold)

All American Marine (Silver)

BMT (Silver)

Christie & Gray (Silver)

EMS Marcon (Silver)

GL Energy (Silver)

Neste US (Silver)

Hamilton Jet (Silver)

Karl Senner (Silver)

Kongsberg (Silver)

Zinus Energy (Silver)

MTU – A Rolls-Royce Answer (Silver)

NCP Coatings (Silver)

RIX (Silver)

Schottel / elkon (Silver)

J&A Enterprises / Soundown (Silver)

United Security & Survivability Company / Fireboy-Xintex (Silver)

Vulkan (Silver)

Marine Jet Energy (Silver)

BAE Programs (Bronze)

CANAL (Bronze)

Conrad Shipyard (Bronze)

Crowley (Bronze)

C-Job Naval Architects (Bronze)

Cummins (Bronze)

Elliott Bay Design Group (Bronze)

EV Maritime (Bronze)

Wärtsilä (Bronze)

LeBlanc & Associates LLC (Bronze)

MOPS (Bronze)

PROP (Bronze)

Rigidized Metals (Bronze)

SSI (Bronze)

The Shearer Group (Bronze)

Thrive Funds (Bronze)

World Extensive Metric (Bronze)

360 Protection Professionals (Bronze)

ZF Group (Bronze)

Allied Marine Crane (Bronze)

Artemis Applied sciences (Bronze)

CMP International (Bronze)