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MAN’S LARGEST SCR DELIVERED FOR MITSUI AMMONIA ENGINE

MAN’S LARGEST SCR DELIVERED FOR MITSUI AMMONIA ENGINE

MAN Energy Solutions has announced the production of its largest yet Cluster 5 Double Layer SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) catalytic converter for Japanese customer Mitsui E&S. The SCR is supplied ammonia-ready. These systems are typically used aboard cruise...

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Danfoss
Coach Solutions
NEW DEPUTY CEO AT SCHOTTEL

NEW DEPUTY CEO AT SCHOTTEL

German propulsion company Schottel has appointed Roland Schwandt, a naval architect who first joined the company in 2000, as Deputy CEO. Schwandt worked as a dedicated project and sales manager in various Schottel sales segments. After briefly managing the Tug &...

SCHOTTEL PROPULSION FOR MEDMARINE’S NEW ASD TUG SERIES

SCHOTTEL PROPULSION FOR MEDMARINE’S NEW ASD TUG SERIES

Low emissions is one of the reasons that German propulsion supplier Schottel has been selected to equip six new ASD tugs to be built by the Turkish Med Marine Group with the company's SRP series RudderPropeller. The new vessels will be built for stock by Med Marine’s...

CCS TO WORK WITH MAN ON METHANOL L21/31 ENGINE

CCS TO WORK WITH MAN ON METHANOL L21/31 ENGINE

MAN Energy Solutions and China Classification Society (CCS) have signed a sub-agreement in line with the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) the two parties previously agreed in 2023. The SFA, on ‘Decarbonisation and Digitalisation in the maritime industry’, is...

MITSUI ADDS FOUR METHANOL-FUELLED ENGINES TO ORDERBOOK

MITSUI ADDS FOUR METHANOL-FUELLED ENGINES TO ORDERBOOK

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (Mitsui E&S) has received a letter of Intent (LoI) for four methanol-fuelled engines,  to the MAN B&W 6G80ME-C10.5- LGIM-EGRTC design, for container ships to be built by Japan Marine United Corporation of Yokohama. With...

ABB ELECTRICS FOR CHILEAN-BUILT HYBRID CRUISE SHIP

ABB ELECTRICS FOR CHILEAN-BUILT HYBRID CRUISE SHIP

ABB has been selected by the Astilleros y Servicios Navales (Asenav) shipyard based in Chile to provide a power and propulsion system for Antarctica21’s newbuild boutique expedition ship ‘Magellan Discoverer’. Due for delivery in 2026, the vessel is the first...

CHILEAN CRUISE SHIP OPTS FOR LOW-NOx MAN GENSETS

CHILEAN CRUISE SHIP OPTS FOR LOW-NOx MAN GENSETS

Chilean shipbuilder ASENAV (Astilleros y Servicios Navales) has ordered four MAN 6L21/31 Mk2 PLO (Part-Load Optimised) gensets for a 94m passenger cruise-ship newbuilding for Antarctic cruise operator Antarctica21. The Magellan Discoverer will be slightly larger than...

Protea
CR Ocean
NEW PROPELLER CAP DESIGN ENHANCES PROPULSION EFFICIENCY

NEW PROPELLER CAP DESIGN ENHANCES PROPULSION EFFICIENCY

A propeller hub vortex cavitation-eliminating boss cap, developed by EcoMarine Innovations, has successfully completed validation tests at a hydrodynamic research centre in Sweden and will now undergo ship model basin trials to verify the efficiency gains on larger...

ABB SYSTEMS FOR NEW NEXANS CABLE LAYER

ABB SYSTEMS FOR NEW NEXANS CABLE LAYER

ABB has secured an order with Norwegian shipyard Ulstein Verft to supply an advanced power and propulsion system for a forthcoming cable-laying vessel (CLV) being built for Nexans. On delivery in 2026, the vessel will join Nexans Skagerrak and sister ship Nexans...

SCHOTTEL RUDDERPROPELLERS FOR FIVE NEW RIVER MAINTENANCE VESSELS

SCHOTTEL RUDDERPROPELLERS FOR FIVE NEW RIVER MAINTENANCE VESSELS

Schottel is to equip five new traffic safety vessels for the German Rhine Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSA) with electrically driven Schottel RudderPropellers. The Bolle shipyard in Derben, Germany, has been commissioned with the construction of the modern...

ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM DELIVERED TO KIEL COMMUTER FERRY

ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM DELIVERED TO KIEL COMMUTER FERRY

Maritime energy storage solution provider EST-Floattech has delivered and commissioned its Octopus Series battery system for the SFK Ferry 'Laboe', recently handed over to operator Schlepp- und Fährgesellschaft Kiel (SFK) by Holland Shipyards Group (HSG). This is the...

DNV STUDY VALIDATES EFFICIENCY GAINS FOR ABB AND MAN DFE+ PROPULSION

DNV STUDY VALIDATES EFFICIENCY GAINS FOR ABB AND MAN DFE+ PROPULSION

According to ABB, classification society DNV has quantified the gains that owners of LNG carriers could expect to achieve using the new Dual Fuel, Electric+ (DFE+) solution developed by ABB and MAN Energy Solutions. Comprising MAN’s four-stroke 49/60DF dual fuel...

MAN LOW-NOx PROPULSION FOR FOUR TANKER NEWBUILDS

MAN LOW-NOx PROPULSION FOR FOUR TANKER NEWBUILDS

Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding and Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry in China have ordered four MAN 10L32/44CR medium speed main engines in connection with the construction of four 41,000 dwt oil-and-chemical tankers for German Tanker Shipping (GTS). The construction of the...

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