Technology group Wärtsilä has been awarded the contract to provide the propulsion machinery for a new purse seiner/pelagic trawler ordered by Strand Senior AS, a subsidiary of Strand Havfiske AS based in Norway. The order was placed last month and the new vessel will be built at the Karstensens Skibsvaerft shipyard in Denmark.
Hirtshals company Marine Shaft’s name tells you a lot of what the company does as its core business, but there’s much more going on there than the name indicates.
Deliveries of Caterpillar 3512 and 3516 marine engines and generator sets are on track to begin at Caterpillar’s established facility in Tianjin in China from February 2017.
When Gustavo Galeano first started up the engine as his new boat was completed in the spring of 2015, he was greeted by a familiar sound.
The first Wärtsilä 31 engine to be installed in a fishing vessel is going to Norwegian company Peter Hepsø Rederi’s new purser/trawler which is to be built at Karstensens Skibsværft in Denmark.
This year the Foundation has altogether received nine applications for its Innovation Award and the three nominees are the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen, Scantrol and GRP boat builder Selfa Artic.
Ålesund in western Norway is the centre of much of Norway’s vessel design and shipbuilding, as well as being home to fishing operators and a great many industry supply companies – including Rolls-Royce, which has designed more than a hundred and fifty fishing vessel over the years.
Wärtsilä is participating in a new maintenance hub in the Canary Islands. The facility, operated by one of Spain's biggest shipbuilding and ship repair groups, Zamakona Yards, will provide Wärtsilä's high quality service expertise to satisfy the growing needs of marine and power plant operators.
The situation in the oil and gas industry will encourage offshore suppliers to look at opportunities in the fishing industry. The fishing industry is open to innovative solutions, but this must be combined with a strong track record and reliability, according to Mads Færk at MAN Diesel & Turbo.
A joint research project carried out by Wärtsilä and City University London has succeeded in identifying the specific design parameters that create the risk of 'singing' propellers.