Equipment

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.

MAN Energy Solutions has launched a new digital platform, MAN CEON, which will collect and evaluate operating and sensor data, and enable real-time monitoring of marine engines.

Norway-based Ulstein Group has unveiled a new heavy lift jack-up design developed to meet the offshore wind industrys need for cost-efficient wind turbine installation vessels.

Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine has won a contract to install its next generation Energy Management System (EMS) across nine vessels in the Norwegian Havila Shipping fleet.

Norway-based Connect LNG has conducted an offshore marine operation in Norway using its UTS jettyless transfer system.

Dutch transportation company, Jumbo has loaded 16 ultra-heavy petrochemical columns and accompanying cargo using its heavy lift vessel (HLV), the Fairmaster.

WE Tech Solutions has supplied its energy efficient Solution Three Economical Operations (PTO) and Boost Mode (PTI) together with direct drive permanent magnet shaft generator to ESL Shipping’s 25,600dwt self-unloader ice-class LNG-fuelled…

Rosneft announced on 10 December that it had developed an electric steerable thruster with a capacity of 7.5 MW for an ice-class multi-functional support vessel project at Zvezda Shipbuilding Complex.

YANMAR Europe has signed a strategic partnership agreement with German-based NORIS Group to supply alarm and monitoring panels and controls for the European market.

Van Oord’s heavy lift installation vessel, Svanen, is to be deployed once again in the Baltic Sea, where it will help lay the foundations for a new wind farm.

Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers (KNOT) has specified Becker high-lift full spade rudders for two shuttle tanker newbuilds awarded to Hyundai Heavy Industries in September 2018.

Ship operators can proactively limit the risk of engine and machinery corrosion with a new Water in Oil (WiO) sensor that continuously monitors dissolved water content in oil.

Caterpillar Marine has detailed a two-pronged approach to urea injection for selective catalytic reduction (SCR), with separate strategies for small and bigger engines.

A newly updated Wärtsilä propulsion control and automation system promises to deliver fuel savings for new tankers.