2-Stroke & 4-Stroke

Hybrid and emission reducing solutions for four-stroke engines were out in force at the International Workboat Show in New Orleans last month.

Technology group Wärtsilä has introduced its first high-speed engine at the International Workboat Show in New Orleans, USA.

Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine has won a contract to deliver the propulsion system to nine vessels for the Italian Grimaldi Group.

German diesel engine and turbomachinery company, MAN Energy Solutions, has won an order to supply the engine for a new dredger in southern China.

Four-stroke engines have a pivotal role to play in Wärtsilä’s vision of a ‘smart marine ecosystem’, Juha Kytölä, director of power supply, tells The Motorship.

Hyundai Heavy industries’ medium-speed engine range has entered the passenger ship propulsion market with two HiMSEN H46/V50 engines onboard Weidong Ferry’s newly built ro-pax vessel, the ‘New Golden Bridge VII’.

Cummins’ most efficient high-speed engine, designed to challenge medium-speed systems, is now available as part of an equipment package pre-certified to IMO’s Tier III NOx standard.

Surging orders in the cruise and fishing sectors are buoying MAN Energy Solutions’ four-stroke business and highlighting its expertise across the propulsion system.

Rolls-Royce has launched the latest in its line of Bergen medium-speed pure gas engines, the B36:45, sharing a common platform with its recently developed B33:45 liquid fuel engines.

Wärtsilä has received 33 Wärtsilä 20 engine orders for merchant auxiliary power applications in three major shipbuilding projects.