Ferries & Fast Craft
Ferries & Fast Craft focuses on vessel design, performance optimisation, and operational technologies shaping high-speed and passenger transport sectors. You can expect topics such as hull design and hydrodynamics, propulsion systems including hybrid and electric solutions, lightweight and innovative new materials, and advanced navigation and safety systems.
Gain insights into regulatory compliance and efficiency improvements in the unseen workhorses of the maritime industry.
Engineering flexibility into hybrid ferry design
Ferries & Fast Craft (Newsletter)
Incat and Echandia are demonstrating how working closer together on modular battery integration, collaborative vessel design and whole-system engineering is working to future-proof ferries as technology and infrastructure evolve.
Naval architecture in the electric age
Ferries & Fast Craft (Newsletter)
Chartwell Marine is expanding its work in the fast passenger ferry market, drawing best practice from CTV design. Its low-wake ferry hullform is a direct response to how electrification has fundamentally changed vessel design.
Simple physics with a significant impact
Ferries & Fast Craft (Newsletter)
Salmon Marine’s Wavebreaker dynamic ballast system, originally conceived for offshore racing powerboats, has evolved into a design solution for reducing vertical accelerations experienced by crew and passengers operating at speed.
Newsletters
Stay connected with the global maritime community through RINA’s newsletters.
Whether you are a member or not, you can receive updates from The Naval Architect, alongside selected RINA news, events and industry insights. Members also gain access to a wider portfolio of exclusive newsletters on key topics in the maritime industry.
- The Naval Architect (currently available to all members & non-members)
- Power & Sustainability (members-only)
- Ship Repair & Maintenance (members-only)
- Warship Technology (members-only)
- Ferries & Fast Craft (members-only)
- Offshore Technology (members-only)
