Two leading Norwegian suppliers of waste management equipment to the passenger shipping industry have agreed to co-operate in order to serve cruise ship operators and yards more effectively.
The collaboration between Scanship and Jets Vacuum will involve offering combined equipment packages of the two companies’ products to provide more integrated solutions for newbuild vessels in particular.
The offering comprises Scanship’s Total Clean Ship System, which incorporates its Advanced Wastewater Purification (AWP) and waste management solutions, together with Jets Vacuum’s vacuum toilet system. This will mean the two companies offering a fully integrated waste and wastewater handling package, with their respective products complementing each other.
Jets Vacuum chief executive Jan Tore Leikanger said: “Jets Vacuum does supply sewage treatment plants to smaller ships, but those units are nowhere near the size required by the cruise industry. So as we had set our sights on penetrating more of the cruise ship market with our vacuum toilet technology, we needed a partner with sophisticated treatment solutions. Scanship quickly emerged as the most promising candidate, and we are very pleased that we were able to sign this agreement with it. Our customers will most certainly benefit from this deal.”
For his part Scanship chief executive Henrik Badin commented: “At Scanship we continually seek improvement. But improvement is not limited to just carrying out R&D work and coming up with new or better solutions. Improvement can also mean taking on a partner, when you find one that completes your offering and provides benefits for both shipbuilders and owners. By including vacuum toilet systems in our scope of supply, we are doing just that.”
Both companies said that their products have common strengths. For example, they are both flexible and offer scalability, allowing for a high degree of customisation. The ability to tailor the toilet system and the waste treatment system to individual vessels, is expected to be a big advantage. Both are pursuing more compact and energy-efficient solutions.
Jets says it has a market share of more than 50 per cent in sanitary technology in the ship and offshore sectors. It is also a major supplier for shore based applications. In total it supplies more than 30,000 vacuum toilets a year.
Scanship has more than 60 per cent of the global cruise ship newbuild market for its AWP system which is certified and type approved under Marpol for large passenger ships. It has retrofitted 30 cruise ships. It also supplies cruise ships with systems for food waste processing and garbage handling.
The AWP system uses incineration to treat maritime waste water, reducing the need for ships to have large holding capacities. Its latest incinerator is designed with multi-chamber, semi-pyrolysis with flue gas emissions that meet Marpol regulations.
In a joint statement the two chief executives said: “We believe that by combining the knowledge and experience of two industry leaders, Scanship and Jets can take this several steps further. As a fully integrated solution, our products can be optimised to work together in the best possible way. With a highly qualified, single point of contact for operators and yards, we are confident that we are now a better choice than ever for cruise lines.”
It is anticipated that this will be a long-term collaboration and no time limit has been put on the agreement.
Mr Leikanger told Passenger Ship Technology: “It is still early days and there are no recent contracts or product developments to announce as a result of the joint efforts of Scanship and Jets. We take a long-term view of the initiative between our companies, and the process with new contracts and new developments tends to be rather a long one.”
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