Fast ship applications for pod drives (FASTPOD)

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

Programme(s)

• FP5-GROWTH - Programme for research technological development and demonstration on "Competitive and sustainable growth 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.3.-3. - Key Action Land Transport and Marine Technologies

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

Address

.,Ridley Building
NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
United Kingdom

Participants (16)

ALSTOM - CHANTIERS DE L'ATLANTIQUE S.A.

France

Address

Avenue Bourdelle
44570 Saint Nazaire

BAE SYSTEMS MARINE LTD

United Kingdom

Address

South Street 1581, Scotstoun
G14 0XN Glasgow

CENTRUM TECHNIKI OKRETOWEJ SA*

Poland

Address

Al. Rzeczypospolitej 8
80 369 Gdansk

DELTAMARIN LTD

Finland

Address

2,purokatu 1
21200 Raisio

FINCANTIERI - CANTIERI NAVALI ITALIANI SPA

Italy

Address

Passeggio S. Andrea 6
34123 Trieste

HAMBURGISCHE SCHIFFBAU-VERSUCHSANSTALT GMBH

Germany

Address

164,bramfelder Strasse 164
22305 Hamburg

LLOYD'S REGISTER OF SHIPPING

United Kingdom

Address

71,fenchurch Street 71
EC3M 4BS London

PRINCIPIA MARINE S.A.

France

Address

Rue De La Noe 1
44321 Nantes

SSPA SWEDEN AB.

Sweden

Address

Chalmers Tvaergata 10
24001 Goeteborg

Links

STENA REDERI AB

Sweden

Address

40519 Goeteborg

STOCZNIA GDYNIA SA

Poland

Address

Czechoslowacka Str.3
81 969 Gdynia

STOCZNIA SZCZECINSKA NOWA SP Z.O.O

Poland

Address

Firlika 19
71 637 Szczecin

TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND

Finland

Address

12,tekniikantie 12
02044 Espoo

TECHNICATOME SA

France

Address

Centre D'etude De Saclay
91192 Gif Sur Yvette

THE ITALIAN SHIP RESEARCH CENTRE

Italy

Address

Via Ippolito D'aste 5
16126 Genova

UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

United Kingdom

Address

100,montrose Street 100
G4 0LZ Glasgow