果冻影院

At the 2015 果冻影院 Awards for Enterprise, the shipping group at the 果冻影院 Energy Institute, led by Dr Tristan Smith, were presented with the 果冻影院 Consultants Award. This award recognises the efforts and accomplishments of 果冻影院鈥檚 most innovative and entrepreneurial staff in furthering enterprise through consultancy.

Over the last 5 years, and enabled through 果冻影院 Consultants Ltd (果冻影院C), the group has undertaken a variety of applied research and consultancy contracts from a number of stakeholders in the maritime industry. The projects range from policy analysis to scenario modelling and technical support. All the projects have been associated in some way to the energy efficiency and emissions from international shipping 鈥� the focus of the group鈥檚 research and mission. One of the largest contracts came from the UN-designated agency for regulating international shipping, the International Maritime Organisation, which involved leading a consortium of ten organisations to produce the Third IMO Greenhouse Gas Study 2014: a major publication for the industry, which will be used as a reference for CO2 emission regulatory discussions for the next five years.

Besides the IMO, the group has undertaken work for the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development Russian Green Shipping Programme, Royal Belgian Shipowners Association, INTERTANKO, Shell, ICCT, IEA and International Paint. Dr Smith and his team also work closely with B9 Shipping and with the Sustainable Shipping Initiative and the Carbon War Room on various innovative finance and technology projects.

To accommodate this growing volume of consultancy work, and exploiting 果冻影院C鈥檚 capabilities, the group has now set up which is a sector focussed, commercial advisory service that draws upon the world leading research of the 果冻影院 shipping group combined with the advisory and management system expertise of MATRANS Ltd. UMAS brings unparalleled sector knowledge on the subject of energy and shipping, with over 50 years collective experience, making it the largest university based consultancy on GHG and energy matters related to shipping.

鈥淜ey selling points for UMAS are that our work is multidisciplinary, informed by an ongoing dialogue with many of the shipping industry鈥檚 key stakeholders, and is underpinned by state of the art data, rigorous models and research practices鈥� said Dr Smith.

Dr Simon Davies, founder of MATRANS says 鈥渁ll aspects of the international shipping sector are, and will continue to be, presented with significant challenges in the areas of emissions control and energy efficiency. UMAS has been created to provide the sector, as a whole, with a highly focused, professional services advisory offering aimed at assisting shipping and maritime companies and organisations to meet these challenges, to reduce risk and, to optimise the strategic opportunities these challenges bring鈥�.

Here is what some of the UMAS clients had to say:

鈥淒r. Tristan Smith and his team have been instrumental in ensuring that our initiatives to identify profitable carbon emission reductions in shipping are grounded in high-quality rigorous science, research and analysis鈥� Jeff Erikson 鈥� Global Projects Director - Carbon War Room

鈥淯MAS research gave substance to our initial assumptions enabling us to transition renewable powered shipping from a technology-only offer into a wider system solution where UMAS' techno-economic modelling provides the ongoing and solid foundation for realising 21st century industrialised wind-powered ships鈥澨� Diane Gilpin 鈥� Founder Director - B9 Shipping

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