Superyachts in Future is All About These Two Trends

• Kongsberg Maritime is working on current products and systems for sustainable yachting.
• The company’s ongoing investment into research and development is also focusing on a number of innovations that could be beneficial for superyachts in the future.
• There are two main trends with regards to emerging technology in the maritime industry, and these are digitalisation and the environment.

A recent news report published in Super Yacht News, by Bryony Mccabe deals with sustainable yachting with innovative solutions for the future.

Connect vessels in a different manner

“In terms of digitalisation, the key is to connect the vessel in a completely different manner and enable new ways of operating, managing and designing it,” Levander explains. “For example, there are exciting opportunities coming from the situational awareness technology that we are working on. By integrating cameras, radars, sonars and lidar that can detect what is around the vessel, the system could create a realistic 3D world for the captain to better experience what is happening.” 

The other trend in terms of future innovations for Kongsberg Maritime is the environment. “One of the biggest challenges today is that we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change,” says Levander. “Many yacht owners are very keen to be able to minimise their carbon footprint and, for them, there are a range of different technologies out there that could improve efficiency or even enable zero emissions.”

Different fuelling options

To help yacht owners achieve their environmental goals, Kongsberg Maritime has been developing solutions that incorporate different fuelling options.

For example, the company has been working with Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) for 20 years – an odourless fuel that is cleaner than diesel, but is still fossil based.

As a next step on from LNG, Kongsberg Maritime is researching non-fossil-based fuels like biogas and hydrogen.

Kongsberg Maritime’s 130m zero-emission yacht concept

Integrating some of the aforementioned innovations is Kongsberg Maritime’s 130m zero-emission yacht concept, Lucid Horizon 2 (pictured above), the energy source for which is hydrogen fuel cells and batteries.

Two liquefied hydrogen tanks can be seen from aft in front of the pool deck, behind the glass window.

The four sail wings deliver auxiliary wind power to reduce energy consumption in transit.

A USV drone explores the sea bed and sends back live 3D charts of the seafloor to enable operation in uncharted waters, as well as the detection of wrecks and good diving locations. An observation lounge is located forward in the bow of the yacht.

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Source: Super Yacht News 

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