Month: December 2011

Volvo Penta´s Inboard Performace System (IPS) drives, claimed to increase performance and reduce fuel consumption, have been chosen to power six 14m pilot vessels ordered by Russian state owned company Rosmorport.

The first of a series of 14 new Chinese multi-purpose heavy-lifters for Emden shipping group Bockstiegel has gone into local charter service, demonstrating the cost advantage for Asian builders over German yards.

GE Marine’s three-year contract to provide maintenance and logistics support services for the Royal Canadian Navy’s fleet of LM2500 aero-derivative gas turbines that power Halifax-class patrol frigates has been renewed.

Wärtsilä says it has been contracted to supply ship design and propulsors/positioning system for a series of two new flexible pipe laying vessels to be built at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering…

Imtech Marine has been awarded a contract to supply the hybrid propulsion system, based on a diesel electric plant in combination with battery technology, to the first diesel electric, hybrid seagoing ferries.

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released the result of its investigations into a failure of a capacitor, part of the diesel-electric propulsion system of the cruise ship ‘Queen Mary…