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20 March, 2020 Uncategorized Wallenius Marine

How COVID-19 effect Wallenius Marine

The situation regarding COVID-19 is serious but under control, according to Johan Mattsson, CEO at Wallenius Marine. “The safety of our crew and office employees /../

19 February, 2020 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability, Uncategorized Wallenius Marine

Ice test of the world’s largest LNG RoRo

There are a lot of challenges in designing the world’s first mega RoRo with ice class 1A Super and multi-fuel engines to WALLENIUS SOL. /../

22 October, 2019 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability Carl Fagergren, Naval Architect at Wallenius Marine

Diversity is key to lower emissions from shipping

How can we lower emissions from shipping? According to Naval Architect Carl Fagergren, we can’t look for just one answer. Many eyes are turned to /../

7 October, 2019 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability Wallenius Marine

Young minds gave wPCC a flying start

This summer, three naval architecture students from KTH was given the task to explore alternative wing designs for wind-powered vessels. “A dream job” says Filip Wängelin, who will continue to work in the project.

23 May, 2019 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability Wallenius Marine

Why does the government invest in sailing vessels?

The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) have invested about 27 million Swedish crowns for the development of the concept wind-powered car carrier, also known as wPCC. Chief Strategist Rein Jüriado tell us why they did that.

24 April, 2019 Ship design & newbulding, Sustainability Wallenius Marine

Three quick questions to Carl-Johan Söder, Design Manager Wallenius Marine

The vision of sailing emission-free vessels has been embraced by the whole Swedish shipping industry, as well as the rest of the world. We asked /../

18 April, 2019 It & system support, Performance management, Technical management Kalle Borneland, IT systems manager

Safe at sea

Since the beginning of the data driven era, there have been attempts to gain access to restricted data. In the early decades of information technology, /../

1 February, 2019 Ship design & newbulding Wallenius Marine

What does LoLo mean?

The development of vessel types carrying vehicles across oceans has come a long way since the world’s, first purpose-built car carriers – MS RIGOLETTO and /../

21 December, 2018 Crew management Dennis Johansson

Why cost-effective crewing is essential

Many ship owners struggle at times to reduce costs on crewing – which sometimes can have a negative effect on the actual business. Being cost /../

21 September, 2018 Uncategorized Wallenius Marine

A “home away from home” got her name

Christening a ship is a naval tradition dating back thousands of years. It has become somewhat of a public celebration and a solemn blessing. It is usually done by breaking a sacrificial bottle of champagne over the bow as the ship is named aloud.