We are delighted to welcome our podcast guest this week, Barend Thijssen, VP & Head of Segment Marine Four-Stroke at MAN Energy Solutions. A shipping engineer by trade, Barend has over 20 years’ experience of the global shipping industry. He took up his current post at MAN ES in 2016.

As the LNG-fuelled vessel orderbook continues to grow, so does industry debate around the issue of methane slip. In this discussion with ship.energy’s Mark Williams, Barend explains what the methane slip challenge is all about and, more importantly, how MAN ES is working at the forefront of technology to resolve the problem for its two-stroke and four-stroke dual-fuel engines. He also shares his insights on other exciting and innovative engine developments that are underway at MAN ES to help shipping get to zero.