Engines

Rolls-Royce announced today they have secured an £8 million contract to design and power a highly specialised buoy tender vessel for India. While operating in

Seadrill has again specified Rolls-Royce thrusters for three drillships to be built by Samsung in Korea. Each vessel will be equipped with six azimuth

Fjord Line’s two new international cruise ferries will be powered solely by environmentally friendly liquefied natural gas (LNG) instead of the more

The Star Polaris, a 173k DWT Capsize bulk carrier owned by Star Bulk is well on its way to being a cursed ship and she’s not even two years

(Bloomberg) — Wärtsilä Oyj, the world’s biggest maker of ship motors and power plants, fell the most in a year as customers postponed

Hyundai Heavy Industries announced today that it will supply 18 gas emission reduction systems for three drillships ordered by Rowan in June 2011. The

Island Offshore took delivery today of the MV Island Crusader from STX OSV, Brevik.  This is the first of two Rolls-Royce designed gas powered vessels ordered

Just when we had almost forgotten about the ongoing construction of the world’s largest ship (by dimensions), Rolls-Royce, announced today they won the

In their second news release of the day, South Korean shipbuilder and engine manufacturer, Hyundai Heavy Industries, announced it has started exporting the

Castrol Marine has extended its cylinder oil range to address concerns about engine damage and performance as slow steaming and fuel sulphur content

Swire has ordered eight IMT-997 platform supply vessels (PSVs), with four to be built by Universal Shipbuilding Corporation in Japan and a further four to be

Wärtsilä has reached a major milestone with its 50DF line of engines, receiving an order to supply its 100 LNG carrier with the dual-fuel technology,

Wärtsilä announced today that they have been contracted by Koedood Diesel Service BV to supply a complete power system, including two of its 6-cylinder

By Lars Petter Blikom, DNV As part of a project to define the future design of container feeder ships for operation in the Baltic Sea, some of my colleagues

ABB released this video today that gives a new look at their Azipod ship propulsion systems that they are successfully integrating on board a number of

FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)–MAN Diesel & Turbo, a subsidiary of German truck maker and engineering firm MAN (MAN.XE), said Thursday it has received a

It’s a bit of an experiment.  Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) announced today that they are modifying the engine of one of their newbuilds and hooking it up

– Tom Boardley, Marine Director, Lloyd’s Register Future technology and innovation is needed in shipping as emission regulations and fuel prices

– By Allan B. Turner, P.Eng., Mechanical Engineer With the pending introduction of EPA Tier 4 and IMO Tier III engine exhaust emission regulations

– by Jaime Tetrault, Director – Marine Product Support, CAT Marine There are limitations in the amount of data that a human can process in a