Power & Propulsion

Russian state owned company Rosmorport has ordered six pilot boats powered by Volvo Penta´s high efficiency drive system, Inboard Performace System (IPS).

Global power systems provider Rolls-Royce has won orders worth some £18m for the supply of Azimuth thrusters to power 18 new tugs being built in China.

Commercial marine diesel engine manufacturer Cummins has introduced an engine which takes it into the tugs sector with the new QSK95 model rated at 4,000 hp (2,983 kW) output.

Golden Arrow Marine has been appointment as the Moteurs Baudouin distributor for UK and Eire as last month.

Revolve Technologies’ partnership with suppliers such as heat exchanger specialist EJ Bowman has led to the development of a new marine diesel engine.

Small electric outboards have been around for some time but now a French company is now offering versions that are powerful enough to get a RIB or small boat onto the plane.

Rotterdam based Imtech Marine has announced a contract award to supply the hybrid propulsion system to the world’s first diesel-electric hybrid seagoing ferries.

Caterpillar has introduced the Cat C175-16 marine propulsion engine to power vessel designs for all segments of the marine industry.

Italian shipyard Cantieri Navali Megaride has proven that diesel-electric systems are suitable not only for large merchant and naval vessels but also small ships.

Featuring at the International WorkBoat Show in New Orleans next month will beSkimoil Inc ’s new diesel Fuel Filter Alert and alarm system, developed specifically for the commercial marine industry.

Aluminium boat builder Armstrong Marine of Washington state in the USA has recently delivered Arctic Solution, a landing craft to transport equipment and personnel to and from oil producing regions in Alaska.

The new Volvo Penta D13 MH for medium and heavy duty marine commercial applications is a powerful and fuel efficient Tier 3 engine.

The latest wave of crankcase ventilation separation system (CCV) filtration technology will simplify the task of meeting emission standards, says Adam Pearce of Parker Hannifin’s Racor Filter Division Europe.

Wärtsilä has recently been awarded a series of orders to supply propulsion solutions for dredging vessels to be built in China and the Netherlands.

Wärtsilä has won a contract from shipbuilding company STX Finland Oy to supply the propulsion machinery for a new passenger ferry to be built for ship owner Viking Line.

Swedish based MJP Waterjets has succeeded in combining steering and reversing of two jets simultaneously into a central column operating both jets in parallel by means of a single hydraulic control.

Biofouling is one of the most costly problems facing commercial craft of virtually any description, but the propellers tend to get overlooked.

A new controller that gives users more sensitive responses and a smoother action when using bow and stern thrusters has been released by Seawork exhibitor Sleipner.

Hybrid systems are beginning to find a foothold, and at last month’s Seawork they showed a rising profile as they stand to benefit any application where theres a lot of idling, or…

“We were really developing something new, the hull form of the boat hadn’t been tried before on a craft that small, so we needed someone to work alongside us at every step…