Month: March 2013

Operating in ice requires a very special type of vessel and in turn those vessels require a special type of propulsion, as described by Dag Pike.

Renewed industry focus on fuel savings and increasingly strict emissions regulations now coming into force have led to a new spirit of cooperation among owners and engine manufacturers, by Mark Fuhrmann.

Zamakona Shipyard in Spain has recently delivered an 87m long standby vessel, ‘Esvagt Aurora’, to the Esvagt company, which belongs to the Danish multinational A.P. Møller-Mærsk group.

The Lienchiang County Government of Taiwan has ordered two MAN 9L32/44CR four-stroke engines to power a ro-pax vessel sailing between Keelung and the Matsu islands, an archipelago located close to the Chinese…

A hybrid propulsion system for a patrol vessel, designed along OSV lines, is described by Dag Pike

An optimised stern tube assembly and improved shaft bearings aim to improve yard installation time.

An estimated 4.6 to 28.6 million litres of stern tube lubricant entering the sea each year means that biodegradable oils and water lubrication are likely to figure more definitively on the regulators…

With the increasing interest in opening up the Arctic routes to larger vessels, such as tankers, many of which will be powered by low speed engines, Birger Jacobsen, MAN B&W senior two-stroke…

Propulsion solutions for navigation in ice have been augmented by Wärtsilä’s development of a steerable, pulling thruster designed to 1A Super Ice Class or higher standards, known as the Icepod. David Tinsley…