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Martha Coston was an American inventor in the 19th Century, and played a pivotal role in making maritime exploration and sailing significantly safer thanks to her improvement of one of the most import...

The Marine industry has enjoyed growth thanks to an influx of new technology and large scale investment. Revolutionary new designs, materials, and even AI systems are changing the way ships are built ...

Engineering is all about making things better or safer. While the marine industry has enjoyed centuries of innovation, things can always be improved. New technology is making things more efficient for...

Piracy has been a fact of Marine life since the first boats sailed across the seas. As boats have changed, pirates have become more sophisticated, more intelligent and harder to catch. Since internati...

Autonomous technology is impacting every industry involved with transportation. Autonomous vehicles, ocean cleaning drones, even autonomous planes: autonomous technology is changing how we think about...

The Marine industry is booming thanks to increased efficiency and a renewed importance on global trade. Spain is one of the global Marine’s sector’s biggest success stories, and the industry is going ...

As it was discussed in a previous post, an essential part of enhancing boat performance is optimising their weight. Mast and rigging design play an important role on managing the boat’s weight as well...

Later to adopt new technology, and still mostly running on crude oil fuel when cleaner alternatives are available, the Marine sector could seem low-tech compared to Aerospace or other transportation i...

Large institutions can sometimes be slow to adopt new technology. New systems take time to learn and may not always integrate well with current standard procedures. Although retraining teams can be ti...

LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) could potentially be the next big shift in the marine industry. Shipping is responsible for transporting around 90% of the goods in the world and is a massive user of carbo...

Since its widespread use in the Second World War, the submarine has become a common concept in naval warfare, and whilst few members of the general public have been in a submarine, all of us have seen...

As discussed in our previous post on the basic principles of hull design, this initial factor can highly influence all subsequent design ideas and the ultimate performance of the boat itself. But Mari...