Marine Hybrid Solutions

Anlegg og Marine Service (AMS), in collaboration with Baumüller Anlagen-Systemtechnik GbmH & Co.KG and Nogva Holding, has established a new company focused on the maritime industry, Marine Hybrid Solutions (MHS). MHS aims to contribute to the green transition by developing and delivering integrated, user-friendly, efficient, environmentally friendly, and secure energy, power, automation, and data solutions for the maritime industry.

MHS is headquartered in Tønsberg/Vestfold, with Børge Nogva serving as the CEO. Børge has a long career in leadership, sales, automation, and electronics in the maritime industry, having held various roles in companies such as Ulstein, Rolls-Royce, GE, and Høglund. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from the Gothenburg Technical Institute and an MBA from BI.

The MHS Board of Directors (from left) Geir Pedersen (AMS), Thomas Scholz (Baumüller), Børge Nogva (CEO MHS) and Trond Olsen (AMS & Chairman MHS).

In the coming period, MHS plans to recruit and hire individuals with specialized expertise in automation and cloud-based IoT solutions. The goal is to create a digital platform that ensures maritime operations' safety and provides necessary insights, reporting, and data usage for shipowners and other stakeholders onshore. Cloud solutions will enable the extraction of more data to provide more and better information. Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be integrated into the company's deliveries to achieve goals of safer and more environmentally friendly operations, among other objectives.

The company's solutions for hybrid and electric propulsion systems will utilize technology and products from both the investors and other suppliers in the supply chain. Future ships will employ multiple energy sources, such as batteries, alternative fuels, solar cells, wind turbines, and engines running on alternative fuels.

Marine Hybrid Solutions aims to bring new and improved solutions to the market to meet the increasingly stringent requirements for ship operations. With a comprehensive digital platform for relevant ship data, functionalities will be developed to make ship operations more efficient and "greener." The solutions will address challenges related to data security and safe operations by developing new functionalities that span multiple onboard systems.

AMS, holding a majority position in MHS, is a supplier and service company specializing in diesel engines for both the maritime and oil & gas markets. The company, with over 40 years of expertise, represents major marine engine manufacturers such as Caterpillar, Cummins, Yanmar, MTU, Detroit Diesel, and Volvo Penta. By developing a strategy aligned with the green shift in the maritime sector and focusing on the benefits of the circular economy, the company will contribute low- and zero-emission technology and products.

Based in Nuremberg, Baumüller is a leading manufacturer of electric automation and drive systems. At production sites in Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and China as well as in over 40 branches worldwide, around 2,000 employees develop and produce intelligent system solutions for machine manufacturing and e-mobility. In addition, the range of services offered by the Baumüller Group includes engineering, assembly and industrial relocation as well as services, thus covering all aspects of life cycle management.

Baumüller Anlagen-Systemtechnik GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 1987 and is the system house of the Baumüller Group. The experts for electric drive and automation technology successfully implement their systems in numerous areas of mobile drive technology. With its wide range of services from motors, converters and control systems to charging systems, the BAS-PCS power management system and the BAS-Link DC-Grid power distribution platform, diagnostic software and the battery management system, Baumüller Anlagen-Systemtechnik offers attractive and efficient alternatives to classic ship propulsion. This paves the way for realistic solutions in the field of smart shipping and also offers a wide range of marine services.