by Satzuma-Creative | Nov 23, 2017 | Archive
Hydrex has developed a new way of maintaining ship propellers to achieve maximum propulsion efficiency. The traditional approach is to let the propeller foul and build up a calcareous growth and polish the propellers once or twice a year underwater or in drydock....
by Satzuma-Creative | Nov 23, 2017 | Archive
De Nora, a market leading supplier of electrochlorination equipment, today announced that it has completed shipboard testing for its BALPURE® ballast water treatment system (BWTS), and intends to make its submission for United States Coast Guard (USCG) Type Approval...
by Satzuma-Creative | Nov 14, 2017 | Archive
Juan Cuenca is Operations Director of the shipyard Astilleros del Guadalquivir in Sevilla, Spain. He is an English citizen, and was born to Spanish parents in 1969, in Ashley, London. He graduated as a Marine Engineer and has, over the last 20 years, developed his...
by Satzuma-Creative | Nov 2, 2017 | Archive
Subsea Industries has begun actively marketing its Ecospeed coating in the luxury yacht market following the introduction of stringent regulations aimed at reducing the impact of leisure craft operations on the marine environment. The Antwerp-based sustainable...
by Satzuma-Creative | Nov 2, 2017 | Archive
It is more than twenty years since Société des Traversiers du Québec (STQ) retrofitted Thordon Bearings’ water lubricated propeller shaft bearings to the double-ended ferries Armand-Imbeau and Jos-Dechênes, as part of an ambitious vessel modification project. Since...
by Satzuma-Creative | Nov 2, 2017 | Archive
The Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi) has published a review of methods available for analysing treated ballast water, concluding that Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) or Pulse Amplitude-Modulation (PAM) technologies should be used to detect the effect of ballast...
