Offshore Technology

Offshore Technology explores the systems, engineering practices, innovations and challenges, driving offshore operations across energy and marine sectors. Topics you can expect include subsea engineering, floating production systems, offshore wind technologies, digital monitoring and control systems, and asset integrity management.

Delve into analysis, and insights on emerging technologies improving safety, efficiency, and performance in increasingly harsher offshore environments in the journey to cleaner sustainable energy sources.

Ferries & Fast Craft - 2026 - Edition 2

The ferry designed to reshape Australia's waterways

Ferries & Fast Craft (Newsletter)
Edition Issue: Edition 2 Publication Year: 2026 Publication Type: Articles

A digital rendering of the Aus Ships ferry powered by Volvo Penta (image: Volvo Penta).

Australia’s first 100% electrically driven passenger ferry, a collaboration between Aus Ships and Volvo Penta, aims to validate scalable electric marine propulsion with the overall aim of decarbonising the country’s waterways.

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Deep-vee without the penalty? The Petestep hull

Ferries & Fast Craft (Newsletter)

By Jake Frith

Edition Issue: Edition 2 Publication Year: 2026 Publication Type: Articles

Vexus Boats DVX23 was designed to run a single 500hp outboard (image: Petestep)

Can diagonal deflector strakes solve the classic deep-vee compromise? Petestep’s hull technology is promising faster planing, lower slamming loads and efficiency gains across the fast craft market.

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Shaping design around battery integration

Ferries & Fast Craft (Newsletter)
Edition Issue: Edition 2 Publication Year: 2026 Publication Type: Articles

The world's first fully electric battery car ferry, the MF Ampere (image: Corvus Energy).

Battery specialist Corvus Energy discusses how it is working on large-scale battery integration projects that reshape weight distribution and stability design in high capacity ferries and fast craft.

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