HYDRUS ENGINEERING
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As decarbonisation becomes the latest buzzword to echo around the marine industry, the team at Hydrus Engineering provides both mid and long-term, high-end solutions to the global fleet. Business Development Director and Company Partner George Ntroulias talks ammonia, the company’s ambitions and drawing up plans for electric ferries. By Andy Probert.
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ig challenges and bigger ideas are the fuels that fire the furnace deep within the innovative minds of Hydrus Engineering. Since 2009, those same minds have helped redesign the fate of many vessels the world over, but it appears they have only just begun. As a global engineering firm consistently delivering the latest technologies, Hydrus Engineering’s aim, by default, is to leave a lasting impression on ship owners and shipyards. Given its blistering performance in 2021, the Athens-based company is confidently striding ahead in delivering on the decarbonisation agenda. Trying to distil the very DNA of Hydrus, Business Development Director and Company Partner George Ntroulias replied candidly: “We care for our clients. We want excellent results by any means. We want them happy! And that has nothing to do with profit. For us, it’s a matter of attitude.” With that in mind, the company has put itself on the front foot in demonstrating an alternative view for the shipping industry as calls to reduce carbon footprints continue to ring out. “It is a strategic goal for Hydrus to have a major engineering role in the decarbonisation era of shipping,” he said. “Within this scope, certainly in the last two years, we have tried to be in the vanguard of alternative fuels development while investigating several available fuels and technologies.”
Strategies built on success The company’s successes remain based on four foundation pillars: people, practices, client satisfaction and corporate sustainability. Established back in 2009, the engineering service provider set out to manage new shipbuilding projects before expanding into repair, retrofit, field attendances and energy management services. 174
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