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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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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?
Wargaming Baltic Sentry
RINA’s Warship 2026: Submarines conference, on 24-25 June 2026, University of Bath. How a wargame series is being used to help combat hostile underwater activity.
The future of antifouling
A summary of Ulf Hansen’s presentation at the 2026 RINA Ship Energy Efficiency Conference.
Wärtsilä rolls out NTPRO 7 simulator
Wärtsilä, the Helsinki-based technology group, has released NTPRO 7, the latest iteration of its navigational training simulation platform.
Designed for Autonomy
Chloe Yarrien and Jake Rigby take us behind the scenes of BMT’s MODUS family of modular uncrewed surface vessels.