Author: Importer

Dutch yard van der Giessen-de Noord has secured an order from Greek owner Strintzis Lines SA for the construction of a roro passenger ferry. The ferry company operates its passenger and freight…

A system which can reduced NOx by over 70 per cent without resorting to Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) is being developed by Swedish- based Munters AB. Called the Humid Air Motor (HAM),…

Wartsila NSD has received its first order for a B version of the RTA-U series. The 7RTA62U-B has a rating of 16,000kW (21,770 bhp) at 115 rev/min and will be fitted to…

TI group, owner of John Crane Marine, has taken over the Dutch-based propeller manufacturer Lips and also bought the most remaining share of Japanese Marine Technologies (JMT). The group has purchased 30…

A heavy-duty sensor for constant pressure measurements in harsh environments is available from Inertial Aerosystems. It is designed to monitor and control compressor pressure in natural gas pumping stations, turbine engines, and…

A quartz-based peak pressure meter for diesel and gas engines is available from Kistler Instrumente. After recording the peak pressure from the pre-selected number of cycles the instrument automatically stores a complete…

Work carried out by welding research organisation TWI has shown that ferrous metals can now be joined by friction stir welding (FSW). TWI says that recent development work has produced metre-long welds…

Draft performance standards for raster chart display systems have been agreed by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation. It proposes to amended the performance standards for electronic chart…

SAlT-RadioHolland has launched its @SEA(Iog) call logging and management software on both Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 platforms.The system includes a Least-Cost-Routing calculator which allows the station which provides the lowest cost…