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TradeWinds: Just how big is the market for microbubble technology?

22nd November 2022

Silverstream speaks to TradeWinds about the increased demand for air lubrication technology and how the Silverstream®️ System orderbook is growing to match it.

Some 244 air lubrication systems have been ordered to date, leaving an immense market of ships that could reduce fuel consumption by using microbubble technology.

Silverstream Technologies has contracted 110 of those orders to date, and upcoming carbon regulations are serving as a tipping point for the industry’s use of air lubrication.

 

Read more in TradeWinds.

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