General News

Wärtsilä has increased its offering in the mid-size, low-speed engine sector by adding new 62- and 72-bore low-speed engines with electronic control to its portfolio.

German shipbuilding head Werner Lüken said Wednesday (18 May) that “land is in sight” for his troubled industry but that it was still “too early to do without life jackets.”

Research and development undertaken as part of the part EU-funded Flagship project has enabled Autronica to introduce its AutroMaster ISEMS integrated safety and emergency management system on the market.

Western Australian shipbuilder Austal says that its largest catamaran built to date, the 113m ‘Leonora Christina’, has been handed over by Austal’s Henderson yard to her Danish owners.

HydroComp’s PropCad software for geometric modeling of marine propellers has now been released in an upgraded 2011 version.

Restech Norway says that it has concluded a contract, under which it has become the sole supplier of pneumatic line throwers to the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DgzRS).