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Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading ship power system integrator, has signed a long term service agreement with Maersk LNG. The agreement includes maintenance planning, condition & performance monitoring, co-ordination and supply of technical services, parts and service work for five 165,000 cum LNG vessels equipped with Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines over a 5 year period.
“For Maersk [...]
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| Tagged condition, leading ship power system integrator, Maersk LNG, maintenance planning, marine industry, performance monitoring, Service Agreement, Wärtsilä
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Wärtsilä has signed a three-year training contract with its long-time customer Wagenborg Shipping of the Netherlands. The agreement covers the training of more than 830 of the shipping company’s crew members, and will be held at Wärtsilä Land & Sea Academy training centres. The training provided by Wärtsilä consists of about 70 courses a year. [...]
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| Tagged ship owner, shipping company, training contract, Wagenborg Shipping, Wärtsilä
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An optimised propeller from MAN Diesel has helped the Scandlines passenger ferry, the M/V Sassnitz, achieve increased efficiency of 12% on its daily sail between Trelleborg, Sweden and Sassnitz, Germany.
Scandlines is one of Europe’s largest ferry companies, a result of the fusion between the largest, national ferry lines in Denmark and Germany. Business is based on [...]
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| Tagged MAN Diesel, optimised propeller, Retrofit propeller solution, significant fuel savings
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In a significant step, the Augsburg branch of PrimeServ, MAN Diesel’s after-sales group, has successfully retrofitted an SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) system aboard a Norwegian tanker.
This represents the first time that MAN Diesel PrimeServ alone has project-managed, sold and put such a system into commission on a marine, medium-speed engine. The project also marks an important [...]
Posted in Diesel engines, Marine/Propullsion
| Tagged Augsburg branch, MAN Diesel, NOx reduction milestone, PrimeServ, Selective Catalytic Reduction system
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Now with CE certification as standard, the No-Frills Racor Village Marine water purification system from Parker Hannifin allows vessel owners to achieve a ready supply of freshwater while at sea without all the electronic ‘frills’.
The AC or engine modular configurations of the No-Frills Racor Village Marine water purification system are available in capacities from approximately 2,000 [...]
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| Tagged No-Frills Racor, Parker Hannifin, Village Marine water purification system
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By: Larry Pearson is a freelance writer based in Metaire, Louisiana, U.S.A.
While there is still plenty of supply boat new construction, much of it is the completion of multi-boat contracts awarded a couple of years ago. Today the “buzz” is the total rebuilding of existing vessels. Engine repowers, in many cases, are completed in order to increase [...]
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| Tagged multi-boat contracts, new construction, supply boat
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Fairbanks Morse Engines Power the USSNew YorkBow stem includes 6.4 tonnes of steel recovered from the World Trade Center’s twin towers
The USS New York is the fifth ship in the San Antonio class, and carries four Fairbanks Morse Colt-Pielstick PC2.5 STC diesel engines manufactured in Beloit, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Together, they deliver over 30 600 kW for [...]
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In 2008, Aalborg Industries of Denmark combined its experience from supplying scrubbers as an integrated part of inert gas systems onboard ships, with their experience of delivering exhaust boilers for large marine diesel engines. The result? They designed and erected an exhaust gas boiler and scrubber test rig to cool and clean the exhaust from [...]
Posted in Diesel engines, Marine/Propullsion
| Tagged Efficient Exhaust Gas Scrubbing, exhaust boilers, inert gas systems onboard ships, large marine diesel engines
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Wärtsilä To Design Research Vessel For The Geological Survey of India
Wärtsilä has signed a contract to design and supervise the construction of a modern oceanographic research vessel for the marine wing of the Geological Survey of India (GSI). In addition to design and supervising the construction process, Wärtsilä will be involved in selecting the onboard [...]
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| Tagged marine wing, modern oceanographic research vessel, Wärtsilä
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ABB Azipod Units Propel Cruise Ship Across the Atlantic
Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas has completed its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and has been delivered to its owner in Miami, Florida, U.S.A., in time for its first commercial Caribbean cruise. ABB supplied a custom-made electrical propulsion system, comprising of three 20 MW Azipod propulsion [...]
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| Tagged ABB, Azipod propulsion units, electrical propulsion system, Oasis of the Seas
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