Equipment

Kvaerner has awarded Incus-owned Scana Offshore a contract for the supply of mooring equipment to Hywind Tampen, Equinors new floating wind farm in the Norwegian North Sea.

Brunvoll has won a large contract for thrusters from the worlds largest shipyard, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) in South Korea.

Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) units could take the warm spot left by more standard, steam turbine waste heat recovery (WHR) systems, writes Stevie Knight.

European shipyards and owners are frequently specifying a grease-free bearing system, Thordon Bearings’ ThorPlas-Blue, as standard for vessels’ winches, fairleads, davits, capstans and windlasses.

Engine and turbine management solution specialist Heinzmann announced the acquisition of UK-based Giro Engineering Ltd. with effect from 6 January 2020. Giro is a specialist component supplier with a global customer base…

An upgraded design of small, two-stroke propulsion engine in the 350mm-bore category has been released by MAN Energy Solutions to supersede the S35ME-B type, writes David Tinsley.

DNV GL has presented South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) with Approval in Principle (AiP) certificates for two new 98,000 cubic metre ethylene carrier cargo tank designs.

Ever increasing performance demands from two-stroke engine designers are driving advances in piston ring technology

Technology company Kongsberg has signed a long-term “Power-by-the-Hour” service agreement with coastal cruise operator Havila Kystruten. The ten-year NOK150 million (USD17.6m) contract will cover four new coastal cruise vessels that are currently…

Wärtsilä’s LJX series of modular waterjets has been upgraded to deliver greater efficiency with low levels of cavitation and underwater noise and has been redesignated as the WXJ series.