Malin Equipment Director, Ben Potter said: “We believe that there is a real opportunity here for Scotland to be at the forefront of rapidly developing innovation. We are delighted that this latest award through the CMDC3, will enable us to continue to support SGS in making this aim a reality. Malin has extensive expertise in supporting the energy sector both oil and gas and renewables.

This is a perfect fit for Malin Equipment – an innovative project that enables us to draw on its deep maritime engineering experience to build on local inventiveness to create rugged, robust and reliable equipment that is straightforward to retrofit and provide real short-term emissions solutions for global shipping. We look forward to demonstrating our team’s ability to apply their expertise to creating bespoke solutions and revolutionise the industry.”

The group is on track with its testing timelines. “We are currently rigorously testing our equipment and software on land ahead the ship installation to give users confidence in the safety, performance and economics of 21^st century wind-assist technology,” Gilpin adds.