Month: November 2001

Rodriquez has secured a contract for an 83m Aquastrada-design monohull fast ferry. The Sicilian-based shipbuilder confirms it is "well underway on construction" of the aluminium- hulled ship at its Pietra Ligure shipyard…

Wärtsilä?s first environmental report was ranked the joint best separate environmental report in 2001 in a competition held in Finland annually to judge the environmental and social responsibility of Finnish companies reporting.…

A 30,000 dwt chemical tanker under construction at the Japanese shipyard of Shin Kurushima will be installed with a ?tunnel fin? when it is delivered to local shipping company Iino Kaiun Kaisha…

Unitor has launched a software package to help engineers manage the treatment of boiler and engine cooling water. Unitor Electronic Rapid Response is a CD-based package in which water treatment test results…

Japanese researchers have developed a superplastic ceramic that will stretch to over 10 times its original length before breaking, reports the journal Nature. It is possible such a material could be used…

John Deere is planning to launch a new commercial marine engine. It hopes to have the 220kW seawater-aftercooled engine, labelled as the 6068 FFM, in commercial production next year.

All four of the diesel engines on Cunard Line?s Queen Mary 2 will have smokeless common-rail fuel injection technology fitted. With the remainder of the ship?s power coming from two gas turbines,…

MAN B&W is testing an upgraded version of its 480mm bore medium-speed engine. A spokesman for the company confirmed that the prototype model is undergoing long-cycle endurance tests in Augsburg, Germany. He…