Conference kicks off in style
The 2010 Motorship Propulsion & Emissions Conference has hired the International Maritime Museum Hamburg exculsively for the gala dinner evening and delegates will have the opportunity to look around the museum for an hour before dinner.
The conference dinner at the Hamburg maritime museum, had a football theme.
When the 32nd Motorship Propulsion and Emissions conference got under way in Hamburg, Germany, on the 28th April 2010, delegates from shipping companies and the industry heard a keynote address from Joachim Konrad of Hamburg Sud, and presentations by key individuals from organisations such as VDR (the German shipowners’ association), BV, BIMCO and IBIA as well as a good cross-section of industry figures, outlining the current position regarding fuel costs, slow steaming and emissions legislation – particularly sulphur content and energy indices.
All felt that there was a need for a truly global, workable solution that would not penalise shipping and would benefit the environmentally responsible ship operators without unduly penalising those with more limited resources, and that IMO must act to address the greenhouse gas problem.
Further topics included a comprehensive overview of exhaust gas after-treatment, with summaries of results from the first installations, energy efficiency in ships, and the importance of lubricants.
For the evening, the event was scheduled to move from the Atlantic Kempinski Hotel to the new Hamburg maritime museum, for the conference dinner, supported by Castrol, with a football world cup theme. German football legend Lothar Matthãus answered questions from a professional interviewer.
The conference continues for the second and final day (29 April), with sessions including propellers and propulsion systems, diesel elecric systems, diesel engine design, and ship design and equipment.
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