Carisbrooke Shipping partners with University of Southampton to develop Marine Biofouling measurement tool

We have entered into collaboration with the University of Southampton to model the optimised management of hull biofouling across our fleet. The anticipated aims of the project were to enable Carisbrooke to reduce operational costs of biofouling, as well as to reduce marine environmental impact and emissions via minimising fuel consumption.

We feel that significant progress was made and the tool presented to us by School of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Southampton has a real-life application potential once fully developed. It was impressive to see the amount of work and modelling expertise invested in this project already and we are looking forward to testing this to further improve it and continue to collaborate with the University of Southampton.

We are proud to support UK maritime sector through combination of financing and knowledge sharing and offer a test opportunity for innovative technology on board of our existing ships to support sustainability and build the ships of the future.

Carisbrooke Shipping Ltd is a UK shipowner and a family-owned ship management company based in Cowes, Isle of Wight since 1969. Carisbrooke’s fleet of nearly 30 cargo vessels between 5,000 – 19,000 dwt trades internationally, from domestic and short-sea voyages around the UK, Med, and Baltics to deep-sea passages.

Find out more
https://biofilms.ac.uk/environmental-impact-of-marine-biofouling/