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Established in 2025, the Brazil Branch of the Institution is the newest of our branches and has an active community from all over South America.
Branch Team
The Brazil Branch is chaired by Paul Jobson, with Edit Walsh as secretary. Both of whom are long-standing RINA members and will be very happy to speak to you about any aspect of the Branch and its activities.
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We are always looking for Members to contribute, whether through supporting the management of the Branch, volunteering at events, or with speaking, training, webinars, STEM activitites for local schools universities, and even mentoring our younger members. Any and all ideas for the Branch events programme and more are very welcome and we look forward to seeing you at our Branch Meetings soon.
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Shipyard digitalisation gathers pace
The digital age is transforming the ship repair industry as online monitoring and digital twins linked to a burgeoning predictive maintenance regime takes hold.
Scope 3 is changing emissions calculations
Visibility is becoming increasingly critical as charterers must now calculate Scope 3 emissions from their supply chains. Speed optimisation is helping to reduce the total.
The underwater arms race
The global undersea arms race is transforming not just navies but the engineering profession behind them. Workforce, digital capability and nuclear stewardship are now as strategically important as the platforms themselves.
Polar planning
As the climate warms, there’s growing interest in transiting once unnavigable seas. Amy McLellan explores ways to support increased shipping in ice-affected waters.
On the rocks in Canada
More than a year after the containership Baltic III grounded on the remote Newfoundland coast during a severe storm, a wreck removal plan is finally in place, but the complex and challenging operation still has years to run, and important questions remain.
My focus as President
Welcome to the latest issue of The Naval Architect. I am honoured to have been elected President of RINA, and I would like to thank members for the confidence and trust you have placed in me.
MIT lab improves human and AUV interactions
Researchers address capability gaps in underwater navigation and perception.
We are on the right path
Catriona Savage on the pace of change in her time as RINA president.
Success on a plate
Team Nagapasa’s flat-bottomed catamaran ferry won the WFSA’s Maritime Student Design Competition, meeting the constraints of a shallow, hazard-prone river route with a design built for affordability and local construction.
Baltic first for carbon capture and storage
Aker wins contract for CO2 terminal in Lithuania; and First battery-methanol-powered tug set to sail.
We'd better be ready for AI
Evangelos Boulougouris on using artificial intelligence in ship design.
LNG for cruise: the design implications
A report from Lloyd’s Register, Fuel for Thought: LNG for Cruise, says liquefied natural gas is established as the dominant alternative fuel in the sector by a considerable margin, evidenced by the fact that 30 LNG-fuelled cruiseships of 20,000GT and above are in service and a further 29 are on order. What does that mean for naval architects?