Welcome to Naval Architecture Week!

It's everything naval architecture this week and next at BairdMaritime.com as we visit all four corners of the globe to bring you the latest news, vessel reviews, features and opinion pieces covering all aspects of maritime design.

Design • Testing • Analysis • Software • Engineering

Remember to come back every day to see the latest news, opinion and vessel reviews!

Introductions:

Naval architecture, a fast developing art and science

– "A 'thing of beauty is a joy forever' applies very much to ships"

– by Neil Baird, co-Founder, Baird Maritime

Vessel Reviews:

• Bremen, Gelting and Darss – New high performance patrol boat trio for Germany's general directorate of customs
• Ob – The world's most advanced icebreaker sets sail in Russia
• Shearwater – Advanced 22-metre catamaran research vessel for North Carolina
• Lerici – Fibreglass and wood passenger ferry for Italy's beautiful Cinque Terre
• Primrose XXVI – Cross-river Ro-Pax ferry for Malaysian Borneo
• Zanzibar 1 – First of high-speed ferry pair brings efficiency and comfort to Tanzania
• Ferry del Chaco – Unusual, shallow-draught Ro-Pax for Paraguay's river network

News and Gear:

• BV grants AIP for Marinnov LNG bunker vessel design
• ABS joins project to develop ammonia-fuelled feeder ship
• Genting to debut new class of LNG-fuelled cruise ships in 2022
• South Korea's DAPA to award contract for design, construction of first FFX-III frigate in 1Q 2020
• Costa Cruises takes delivery of LNG-fuelled cruise ship from Meyer Turku
• DNV GL, Huangpu Wenchong to develop 5,000TEU LNG dual-fuel containership
• ITIC: Naval architects must check provenance of third-party designs

Remember to come back every day to see the latest news, opinion and vessel reviews!

Call for content!

Any news or views about the global maritime tourism, ferry and cruise industries? Send it through to editor@baird.com.au ASAP (between now and October 11), so we can add it to this current edition of Naval Architecture Week!

We are after:

• Vessels – Orders, new deliveries, under construction
• Gear – Latest innovations and technology in the naval architecture sector
• Interviews – Owners, operators, designers, builders etc.
• Reminiscences – Do you have any exciting, amusing or downright dangerous anecdotes from your time in the naval architecture world? (example here)
• Other – Any other relevant news

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