Power & Propulsion

The Caterpillar Propulsion twin fin system recently won the Technical Innovation prize at the Seatrade Maritime Awards Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and Africa, Dubai – one of the highlights of Dubai Maritime…

Marine propeller modelling software specialist HydroComp has released a 3-year update of its popular PropCad software.

Elkon a Turkish subsidiary of Netherlands-based Imtech Marine, has been awarded a contract from Sedef Shipyard (Tuzla, Istanbul) for the delivery of the electrical equipment, propulsion system and services for two Canadian…

Transporting personnel and equipment quickly and safely by boat to offshore wind farms in all weathers requires reliable, efficient equipment. MPI Workboats, a UK-based operator of high performing, purpose-built wind farm support…

France Helices, the French company that offers a range of trimmable surface drive systems has developed a new model that has rudder steering rather than the normal dynamic steering with the propeller…

Rolls-Royce has successfully completed seatrials of its first S4 series of waterjets, designed to give higher efficiency at lower speeds. The trials aboard the recently upgraded ‘Tangalooma Jet’, a 350 passenger-carrying high-speed…

Hydropack is an engine system designed in the Netherlands to power all the requirements of a workboat. By coupling the engine directly to a hydraulic pump the engine power is converted into…

Alamarin-Jet Oy launched their newest and largest waterjet to date - the AJ340 - at METS Tradeshow in Amsterdam. The Finnish waterjet manufacturer have long been a market leading manufacturer of smaller…

A fishing catamaran which only went into service in February this year has already had a change of engines – this time to Sole Diesel.

Mermaid Marine, has significantly invested in new research and development facilities to aid product design and development of new products.

Initial designs for Fischer Panda’s hybrid diesel electric propulsion systems were first introduced in early 2004.

Italian company Transfluid was established in 1957 to manufacture variable speed drives, fluid couplings and hydraulic transmissions. Now it has added to its portfolio with a hybrid transmission system that is suitable…

Renold Hi-Tec Couplings, of Halifax, UK, is set to launch a new range of failsafe, high temperature, marine propulsion rubber-in-compression couplings at the International Workboat Show, Morial Convention Center, in New Orleans,…

WEG, a US headquartered supplier of drive technology, introduced its water-cooled WGM motors to the shipbuilding industry for the first time at SMM 2014. WEG claim the motors provide the ideal solution…

The world’s largest fast crew boat has recently been launched by Incat Tasmania’s shipyard on the 15th of September 2014. This DP2 class 70m fast crew boat (FCB) will be operating as…

After initially being designed to accommodate a different propulsion system, Njord Offshore’s four new windfarm crew vessels are now all fitted with quadruple Volvo Penta IPS900 complete propulsion systems and will be…

Suzuki’s DF25A and DF30A petrol outboard motors have received the 2014 IBEX Innovation Award for Outboard Motors, as announced at the International Boat Builders’ Exhibition & Conference (IBEX) in Florida. This is…

German gearbox manufacturer Reintjes is the latest manufacturer to offer pod drive and hybrid systems. The new range of pod units differs from others in being a fixed drive unit with no…

A new lifeboat for the Dutch lifeboat service, Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij (KNRM), has been fitted with diesel engines that can run inverted without sustaining damage.