Once again we will be taking part in the world’s leading trade fair and conference event for the maritime industry, the SMM. This time, we will focus with our partners – Hochschule Emden/Leer, Fraunhofer-Institut für Windenergiesysteme IWES and International Windship Association – on GreenShipping and wind assisted propulsion systems (WAPS) at our stand A3.108.
We look forward to an exciting exchange about innovations and co-operations, visit us at stand A3.108!
The Maritime Campus Leer is a nationally and internationally recognized center for the future of shipping and the training of maritime specialists and managers. Starting out as a maritime school, the Maritime Campus in Leer now brings together the work of University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, the MARIKO Maritime Competence Centre, the company Nautitec and the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES. Students from 19 nations study a wide range of maritime-related subjects, from bachelor’s and master’s degrees to doctoral students. The ships of the future are being designed and sustainability and digitalization in the shipping sector are being driven forward.
MARIKO GmbH is a non-profit organisation that was founded in 2010 by the County of Leer and the shipowners Alfred Hartmann and Herrmann Buss, to strengthen Leer as a shipping location.
Our goal is to support the maritime industry. We do this with passion and in a variety of ways. As an interface between the maritime industry, science and politics, we strengthen the competitiveness and innovative power of companies and advocate for their interests. We focus on networking activities, the transfer of expertise, the initiation of research and cooperation projects and maritime security training. We pay particular attention to cooperation with small and medium-sized companies – from both the maritime and inland shipping sectors.
GreenShipping has been one of our core topics since our foundation. The project Kompetenzzentrum GreenShipping Niedersachsen is hereby our guiding project which brings together all our activities within green shipping. The aim is to help make shipping more resource-efficient and environmentally friendly under economic conditions. In this context we have been e.g. initiating several projects related to alternative fuels like LNG, Methanol and Ammonia in the past years. Additionally, we have been looking into wind as additional propulsion technology since our foundation. With research projects like FlettnerFLEET and rasant we are now intensifying our efforts to make Wind Assisted Propulsion Systems as one of the must haves when it comes to new ship designs and retrofit concepts.
