2-Stroke & 4-Stroke

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

WinGD plans to extend the choice of methanol dual-fuel engines available to shipowners, completing the range of bore sizes ranging from 520mm up 920mm by the end of 2027, the engine designer announced…

19th September 2023

WinGD to add more bore sizes to X-DF-M platform

19th September 2023

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) received an approval in principle (AIP) from ABS for an ammonia reductant supply system for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) in ammonia-fuelled…

18th September 2023

AiP for NH3-fuelled SCR design using ammonia as reductant

18th September 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

MAN Energy Solutions is understood to have expressed concern to IACS, the International Association of Classification Societies, about the lack of a set of unified requirements relating to ammonia-fuelled engines and their…

15th September 2023

MAN ES stresses need for common NH3 standards

15th September 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

A.P. Moller-Maersk (Maersk) held a formal naming ceremong for its first vessel that will operate on green methanol. The newbuild methanol-fuelled 2,100teu container feeder, Laura Maersk, was named in a ceremony hosted in the Port of…

15th September 2023

Naming ceremony for MeOH-fuelled Laura Maersk in Copenhagen

15th September 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

MAN Energy Solutions has developed a new turbocharger cut out system to optimize the low load performance of its new high efficiency G95ME-C10.6 engines, and researchers shared details of its development at CIMAC…

14th September 2023

New turbocharger cut out system ensures efficiency of MAN 10.6 engines

14th September 2023

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Rolls-Royce is adding pod drives to its mtu yacht portfolio in cooperation with ZF.

13th September 2023

Rolls-Royce adds pod drives to mtu yacht offering

13th September 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Wärtsilä has been chosen to supply an integrated hybrid propulsion system for two new hybrid RoRo vessels, including the engines, a methanol fuel supply system, a hybrid electric system, as well as bow…

13th September 2023

Propulsion package for first MeOH-fuelled hybrid RoRo vessels

13th September 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

MAN Energy Solutions is using AI-like algorithms in the new engine control system for its Otto cycle, dual-fuel LNG ME-GA engines

12th September 2023

New ECS System Keeps ME-GA Close To ISO Conditions

12th September 2023

PROPULSION

PROPULSION

Rolls-Royce is to supply eight mtu Series 4000 engines for two new aluminium RoPax fast ferries.

6th September 2023

Rolls-Royce to power new fast ferries

6th September 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

WinGD and South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) have signed an agreement to cooperate on on future fuel vessel applications with ammonia-fuelled engines.

5th September 2023

WinGD inks NH3-fuelled vessel applications MoU with SHI

5th September 2023

INTERVIEWS

INTERVIEWS

Thomas S. Hansen, Head of Promotion and Customer Support at MAN Energy Solutions, 2-Stroke has provided an update on the new ammonia engine’s development schedule

4th September 2023

Joined Up Thinking: MAN’s New NH3 Engine Is On Track

4th September 2023

GENERAL NEWS

GENERAL NEWS

Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) is reported to have placed an order for three Newcastlemax bulk carriers with Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, with an option for a further three vessels, according to…

4th September 2023

EPS reported to place 3+3 dual-fuel NH3 Newcastlemax order

4th September 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

In response to the seemingly inexorable rise of dual-fuel propulsion, MAN Energy Solutions is to augment its genset portfolio with a methanol-capable, auxiliary engine. The foundation for the new L21/31DF-M genset is…

4th September 2023

New Small-Bore Methanol Genset

4th September 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Swedish shipping company Furetank has announced that it is co-developing and testing two technologies with Wärtsilä that demonstrate the potential to halve methane slip emissions.

31st August 2023

Methane slip reduction potential of Wärtsilä engine solutions

31st August 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Representatives from MAN Energy Solutions and A.P. Moller – Maersk presented an update on the methanol engines powering recent newbuilding orders at CIMAC 2023, including the new 95-bore developed for larger vessels.

24th August 2023

MAN’s 95-bore LGIM engine ready for Maersk newbuildings

24th August 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

The developments from the X-DF1.0 to X-DF2.0 involved inclusion of the iCER EGR technology without changing brake mean effective pressure (BMEP), but now WinGD is looking to further increase efficiency and reduce…

24th August 2023

WinGD plans next updates to X-DF engine

24th August 2023

AMMONIA

AMMONIA

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has announced the beginning of demonstration tests of the ammonia gas abatement system (AGAS) at its testing facility at Nagasaki District MHI…

22nd August 2023

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding begins NH3 abatement system demonstration tests

22nd August 2023

BIOFUELS

BIOFUELS

Chevron’s US subsidiary Chevron U.S.A. Inc., signed a memorandum of understanding with Cummins on 10 August extending the scope of an existing 2021 strategic collaboration agreement to cover biofuels, including renewable natural gasoline blends and biodiesel,…

18th August 2023

Chevron broadens collaboration with Cummins into biofuels

18th August 2023

OTHER EQUIPMENT

OTHER EQUIPMENT

BOLL & KIRCH has announced that its newly developed engine filtration system has received more than 1,000 orders since its recent launch, gaining a strong position in orders for MAN Energy Solutions’ ME-type engines.

16th August 2023

New engineBOLL marine filtration system gains market share

16th August 2023

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

2-STROKE & 4-STROKE

Mads Carsten Jespersen and a team of researchers from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) presented research into widening the operating limits of a spark-ignited engine operating on pure ammonia and confirmed that…

15th August 2023

Ammonia combustion without ignition improver demonstrated on single cylinder test engine

15th August 2023