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Liberty Lines commissions ferry with mtu hybrid system from Rolls-Royce

Denise Kurtulus, Vice President Global Marine at Rolls-Royce Power Systems, says: “Liberty Lines is the ideal partner to demonstrate the progress that can be made towards environmentally and climate-friendly ship operation. Together with Liberty Lines, Armon and Incat Crowther, we have developed a p...

Cannes Yachting Festival 2024, from 10th to 15th September

“2024 represents a year of adaptation and new opportunities for the Cannes Yachting Festival. With the works on the Vieux Port underway, we have redesigned the organisation of certain areas to replace them with other different and innovative spaces, such as the creation of a new large marina in Port...

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Hydropod, the hydraulic pod from AS Labruna

Among the most interesting new products we saw at MetsTrade 2019 is definitely the HydroPod developed by AS Labruna. It is a hydraulic pod capable to deliver 500 horsepower (almost 368 kW) and 2,500 Nm of torque. A product that – as Massimo Labruna told us – fits into a niche market trad...

Diemax, proudly ‘orange’

The Dutch manufacturer Diemax truly played home-field at Mets 2019. We talked about the Dutch trade fair in this post. Already two years ago we saw the 12-cylinder model with power from 388 kilowatts at 4,000 rpm and 447 kW at 4,500 rpm, designed specifically for marine applications. During last yea...

Vulkan and the vibro-acoustic comfort

Vulkan Group, and particularly its subsidiary Vulkan Italia, exhibited at MetsTrade in Amsterdam with a clear goal:to communicate its recognized expertise in the development of vibro-acoustic solutions for marine propulsion systems. And if, in terms of the Group’s commitment to the marine sect...

Fpt C16 600, a new proposal for commercial applications

FPT C16 600. We were in Amsterdam at MetsTrade 2019 for the official preview. And we’ll talk about this new engine in the first issue of Diesel International 2020. One of the brand-new products launched by FPT Industrial in the Netherlands was indeed this 16-litre marine engine, Diesel of the year 2...

MAN hybrid propulsion package for a Greenland Research vessel

MAN hybrid propulsion package is made of MAN 27/38 and 175D engines, a 5-bladed MAN Alpha propeller and both remote-control and MAN HyProp systems. Such a package was chosen by the Astilleros Balenciaga shipyard in Spain for the construction of a research vessel addressed to the Greenland Institute ...

Siemens diesel-electric propulsion on board the MY Vanadis superyacht

Siemens diesel-electric propulsion, namely the Siship EcoProp, is on board the MY Vanadis superyacht, a 31-metre vessel built by CCN (Cerri Cantieri Navali). The system provides that the propulsion may rely on traditional diesel engines to navigate at cruising speed or rather on electric motors for ...

Much more than sustainability at METS 2019

A few figures, first of all, to frame the Mets 2019, which again this year we have not been able to give up. The international trade show of marine equipment, materials and systems hosted, from 19 to 21 November, just under 18,000 visitors from 115 countries and 1,670 exhibitors from 53 countries, w...

Yanmar engines roared in the French sea

Yanmar doubled indeed its efforts last September and took part to two important yachting exhibitions, both of them held in France. The first one was, of course, Cannes Yachting Festival at the new-look Cannes exhibition. The other one took place only a few days later in La Rochelle, in Western Franc...

ZF azimuth thruster technology for an oceanographic research vessel

The impact of the retractable azimuth thruster technology. The research vessel ‘R/V Roger Revelle’, owned by the US Navy and operated by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography under a charter agreement with the Office of Naval Research, is a globally capable oceanographic research vessel, designed as...
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