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For every surface the right abrasive What type of material requires rust removal and cleaning under what type of conditions? What is the best surface profile for a given coating system? The best solution starts with custom advice from our experts. When it comes to...

Maersk Fluid Technology new cylinder oil ‘Blending-On-Board’ (BOB) system, has its first volume order, for retrofit of the SEA-Mate B1000 system onto 12 Maersk tankers. The vessels include ten equipped with Wärtsilä (WinGD) RTA and RT-Flex engines and two vessels with...

Often described as conservative, the Maritime Industry has woken up to the potential offered by connectivity and digitalization resulting from improved satellite coverage and cloud computing. Owners and operators are increasingly looking for suppliers that can deliver...

Hydrex divers have carried out a crack repair on a 163-meter roro vessel during the ship’s stop in Zeebrugge. Divers located the 600 mm external crack in the engine room ballast tank, and installed a blank over the area, then worked on the crack inside the engine room...

Schottel have adopted an optimized coating process on their rudder/propellers. The new coating promises maximum corrosion protection due to optimized resistance to abrasion and greater adhesive force in combination with thicker coats of paint. Underwater elements of...

This White Paper is a practical look at ship propeller maintenance, aimed at greater fuel economy for shipowners and operators while also taking into consideration the environmental impact caused by this maintenance. The problem of propeller roughness has been well...

Turbo Internacional is an independent multi-brand turbocharger service company solely dedicated to the maintenance, repair & sale of exhaust gas turbochargers. We are able to service to the main turbocharger brands like ABB, MAN, PBS, Mitsubishi, KBB, MTU & Napier,...

ISO 19030, a first-ever International Standard designed to enable reliable hull and propeller efficiency measurement, is finally nearing publication. Development of the Standard has taken over 12,000 hours of development work involving 53 expert stakeholders across...

Nearly 60 ballast water treatment specialist companies are participating at this year’s Posidonia Exhibition, in anticipation of the ratification of the BWT Convention which is expected to come into force before the end of 2016. Despite the increased attention, some...

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has won an order to supply highly-specialised winches for a pilot project using an innovative system that generates electricity from waves. The system is called NEMOS and it is ideally suited to work in combination with offshore wind...

Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to provide integrated turnkey electrical solutions for four new RoRo ferries being built at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) yard in Germany. The electrical systems to be delivered include all products and services...

ABB have announced that the total fuel savings of the entire installed Azipod fleet since being launched is estimated to be more than 700,000 tons. Assuming the average family car uses one ton of fuel annually, this saving corresponds to the annual fuel consumption of...

Around 300 people gathered in Tokyo on 12 May to attend a ship recycling seminar held by ClassNK. In addition to ClassNK representatives, top industry experts from Asia and Europe discussed the current challenges of ship recycling and what the industry can do to...

ABB’s Azipod propulsion system will power a Chinese polar science research icebreaker, the first vessel of its type to be built in China.  The Polar Research Institute of China ship will be fitted with two Azipod VI units with combined power of 15 MWs. The order...

As of April 2016, Shell Marine Products (SMP) has analysed over 50,000 cylinder drain oils samples via its Shell Rapid Lubricants Analysis (RLA) service. The service has grown rapidly in recent years with OEM’s such as MDT and Wärtsilä both recommending cylinder drain...