Ship&Offshore | Issue 05/2022
Strategic agreement signed in Dubai
Resistance reduction | Dubai-based Drydocks World and air lubrication specialist, Silverstream Technologies, have signed a strategic agreement to promote the resistance-reducing system as the shipyard becomes an approved installation provider. Air lubrication offers significant scope to reduce fuel consumption and emissions and Silverstream systems are now being installed on a range of new vessels. However, the technology also provides potential for cutting fuel use on existing ships as they become subject to new IMO emission regulations from next January....