Engineering News

Off the North Sea coast of Germany is an impressive array of wind farms that feed an enormous amount of renewable energy to the European power grid. Due to

In February 2014, the 3D Seismic Vessel ‘Polarcus Naila’ was at Damen Shipyard Group’s ship repair and conversion yard Shipdock Amsterdam for a 6-week

Global tug and salvage operator Remolcadores Marracoi SL (REMARSL) chose a full Caterpillar Marine power and propulsion package for a new 55 ton bollard

  MSC Cruises has placed a landmark order at Fincantieri today to build two new state-of-the-art cruise ships at a price of 700 million euro each, plus

Currently in the design process by Seattle-based naval architecture firm Jensen Maritime are North America’s first LNG bunker barges for Houston-based

PRESS RELEASE – With new stringent sulphur oxide (SOx) emission regulations due to be enforced from January 2015, Finnlines has ordered Wärtsilä

Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) has placed a newbuild order recently for a pair of ABS-classed ‘Moss-type’ LNG carriers from Hyundai

An adjustable bolted propeller, like the one pictured above for Britain’s new QE-class aircraft carrier, feature fixed-pitch blades which are installed

OSLO, May 9 (Reuters) – Royal Caribbean, the world’s second-largest cruise operator, has ordered its fourth Oasis-class vessel, the world’s

Imagine being an electrician troubleshooting a network error on the blowout preventer (BOP) control panel of an ultra-deepwater drilling rig when all of a

  The naval architects at Ulstein have, for the first time, married the X-bow concept with an accommodation vessel… and unfortunately, it’s

Kleven Verft’s Ulsteinvik shipyard delivered the 5,000 dwt PSV Juanita this month to shipowner J.J. Ugland, with a very unique feature. This ship was

Havyard, the Norwegian ship technology company, signed a contract today to build a hybrid battery powered platform supply vessel (PSV) for the privately-owned

As fuel prices continue to put a relentless burden on shipowners, the age of sail may be returning. A joint industry project launched in 2009 by the University

Caterpillar Marine recently shipped the first of five new Cat® G3516C marine gas engines from their Lafayette, Indiana manufacturing facility to the Port of

The deadly mudslide that destroyed a residential area northeast of Seattle on March 22, 2014 killed 34 people, including maritime industry veteran Steve

I met up with the folks at Rolls-Royce the other week at their service center in Galveston, Texas for a quick update on their operations. With more and more

If everyone could predict the future, winning or losing a race would result in the same emotional response, risk would be non-existent and the correct path

During the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association Annual Conference today, His Majesty King Harald of Norway presented the 2014 Heyerdahl Award to Rolls-Royce

In a recent conversation with Wim Knoester, Director of Propulsion at Wartsila Ship Power, he described a new thruster design that his company has been