Objective
Recent years have been witnessing a tremendous increase in the volume of large & fast sea transportation and electric driven azimuthing pod-propulsors with precise handling. While the "large & fast commercial ships" and "azimuthing pod drives" have been the most promising solitary EU grown technologies. There has been no attempt to combine these concepts to take further advantage of the prospect-combined technology. The main objective of FASTPOD project is to develop a new design technology to exploit the benefits that can be offered by electric padded drives on commercial large and fast ships in an efficient, safe and environmentally friendly manner. It is expected that the developed technology will provide basis to increase the competitiveness of the EU maritime industries further, as well as improving the efficiency and quality of marine transportation. The project objectives will be achieved in demonstrating the potential of the proposed technology through a number of design case studies for different ship types involving fast Ro-pax, containership and advanced high- speed craft, using numerical and experimental techniques. The main output of the project will be the critical assessment of this design technology and recommendations for its effective implementation
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NE1 7RU NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
United Kingdom
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Participants (16)
44570 SAINT NAZAIRE
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G14 0XN GLASGOW
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80 369 GDANSK
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21200 RAISIO
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34123 TRIESTE
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22305 HAMBURG
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EC3M 4BS LONDON
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44321 NANTES
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40519 GOETEBORG
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81 969 GDYNIA
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71 637 SZCZECIN
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02044 ESPOO
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91192 GIF SUR YVETTE
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16126 GENOVA
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G4 0LZ GLASGOW
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