Marine News archive Last Modified 05.06.2008

Marine News archive

Issue 3/2005 - full issue
 China’s drive towards world dominance
 Shaping China
 On the road with the Wärtsilä Auxpac 20
 A thrust for Chinese shipbuilding
 WCZP in place for China’s shipbuilding growth
 Wärtsilä enters new era in Chinese engine building and ship design
 Market success for Wärtsilä RT-flex 2-stroke engines in China
 Reliability and maintainability engineering - a probabilistic approach
 Log on, sign in, buy out
 Serving customers through-life
 Fast turn-around for first turnkey fire-fighting work
 Wärtsilä’s transformation from component to system integrator
 Wärtsilä engineering support for design offices and shipyards

Issue 2/2005 - full issue
 The future of energy: ExxonMobil's view
 Dual-fuel engines a first-class choice for LNG FSRUs
 Modularized power plant for Girassol FPSO
 Wärtsilä power drives oil production success
 Thrusters for the offshore market
 AC Enviroseal for tidal power generation
 The ship’s electrical network, engine control and automation
 Successful features of the Wärtsilä common rail
 CBM - prevention is better than cure
 Operation and maintenance on vessels
 T-AKE Team excels in US auxiliary support ship project
 New propeller blades in double-quick time
 The growing RT-flex fleet 

Issue 1/2005full issue
 The future - as seen by cruise ship owners
 Enviropax ferries make promising progress
 Hybrid CRP pods for large Japanese ferries
 A brief guide to controlling marine diesel exhaust emissions
 Pollution-free stern seals
 The smokeless Sulzer ZA40S
 Wärtsilä Waterjets for US Navy INLS Program
 Auxpac standard generating sets
 Replacing fixed pitch propellers - more possibilities for improvements
 What the service toolbox holds

Issue 3/2004full issue
 Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines offer fuel flexibility
 More gas for LNG carriers
 Heavy fuel oil - still the dominant fuel quality for diesel engines
 Wärtsilä dual-fuel engine breakthrough in Korean LNG carrier newbuilding market
 Service agreements for LNG carriers
 Service and maintenance contracts for propulsion systems
 Wider choise in fuel consumption for Sulzer engines
 Wärtsilä power for two ice-class product tankers
 Cargo RoPax with Wing Pods

Issue 2/2004full issue
 Wärtsilä 46F - Technology of the new engine
 Wärtsilä 46F - Tradition & Innovation
 Service aspects of the Wärtsilä 46F
 Marketing the Sulzer RT-flex50
 EnviroEngines - A pioneering customer's review
 Guidelines to engine dynamics and vibration
 W-CZP - Wärtsilä begins propeller manufacturing in China
 Improved controllable pitch propeller concept offers better vessel performance
 Wärtsilä 46 and 50DF product support
 Customers benefit from standard generating sets

Issue 1/2004
full issue
 Meeting Asia's growing power needs
 The 2-stroke engine business in Korea
 CSSC - JV partner in China
 Wärtsilä to start propeller manufacture in China
 Japan Marine Technologies - Building customer satisfaction through trouble-free reliability
 Hydrodynamic aspects of hybrid propulsors using the contra-rotating propeller concept
 Technology guidelines for efficient design and operation of ship propulsors
 Conversion of a semi-submersible heavy transport ship
 Just five weeks
 Reduced cylinder lubricating oil feed rates
 Success of Wärtsilä and Sulzer common rail engines
 1000 days without lost-time incidents
 Dual-fuel diesel engines for LNG carriers

Issue 2/2003full issue
 Expanded Sulzer RT-flex engine range
 CODED machinery for the next generation of cruise ships
 Wärtsilä to power novel propulsion concept
 First Wärtsilä propulsion package for AHTS and offshore supply vessels
 NOX emission formation in marine diesel engines – towards a quantitative understanding
 Guide to diesel exhaust emissions control
 Operations and Maintenance for marine and offshore plants
 Retrofit of a self-sustained bulk carrier to a flexible fallpipe vessel
 First VLCCs built in China
 A growing member of the Wärtsilä family
 Fuel cells – the future of power generation
 Solutions – enhancing the Ship Power Supplier Strategy

Issue 1/2003full issue
 Wärtsilä engines in naval integrated electric propulsion applications
 The combination of waterjet and refined propeller propulsion applications
 Condition-based maintenance for two-stroke engines
 First year of service successful for first Sulzer RT-flex
 Wärtsilä supplies world's fastest waterjet
 Novel machinery concepts for RoRo vessels
 Heavy fuel oil an economical option in the high-speed transportation market

Issue 2/2002full issue
 The first Sulzer RT-flex60C
 LNG-fuelled RoPax vessels
 Quiet power for fisheries research
 Underwater retrofit of azimuthing thrusters
 ManeGuard FSE The fully split sterntube seal
 Dutch dredger Waterway wins award
 Get future-ready with Wärtsilä Land and Sea Academy

Issue 1/2002full issue
 Wärtsilä provides more
 The DF-electric LNG carrier concept
 LNG carrier breakthrought for Wärtsilä
 Lips propellers for jumbo dredgers
 Machinery solutions for Ultra Large Container vessels
 Thunder Horse offshore in the Gulf of Mexico
 Replacement of fixed pitch propellers
 Coastguard, the non-polluting sterntube sealing system

Issue 3/2001full issue
 Combined diesel-electric and diesel-mechanical propulsion for a RoPax Vessel
 Optimising a propulsion plant to special requirements
 World’s first common-rail low-speed engine goes to sea
 Forward look at future emissions control measures for Sulzer RTA engines
 Common rail on Wärtsilä four-stroke engines
 Significant orders for Sulzer RTA engines
 New milestone reached with LNG-fuelled engines
 32 DF ready for offshore duty in Equatorial Guinea

Issue 2/2001full issue
 Wärtsilä 64 - the first two years
 Handysize chemical tankers operate with increased safety and lower costs
 Superfast maintenance information processing for Superfast Ferries
 Twin-screw propulsion for super container vessels
 Increasing Sulzer power in the A. P. Møller fleet
 Continuing economic advantage for diesel-electric cruise ships
 Insights into piston-running behaviour
 New technologies bring benefits to old engines
 EnviroEngine awarded for best environmental contribution
 CIMAC Best Paper Award to Wärtsilä team
 Wärtsilä acquires Ciserv

Issue 1/2001full issue
 Wärtsilä 32DF and 50DF – new products for marine applications
 Gas fuelled engines for marine applications
 Petrojarl 1 – First offshore DF installation
 Offshore supply vessels call for versatile design
 Powering Offshore Units in North and South America
 Reliability improvements and longer overhaul periods for Wärtsilä 200 engines
 New layout streamlines the Wärtsilä 20
 Condition based maintenance optimises availability
 The Ship Power Supplier for multipurpose tugs
 14 cylinders and more cylinder power for the Sulzer RTA96C

Issue 3/2000full issue
 The Sulzer RTA96C engine– a powerful success
 Some recent orders for Sulzer RTA low-speed engines
 First Sulzer RTA68T-B goes to sea in the gas carrier Berge Danuta
 Wärtsilä empowering your business
 Propulsion systems for future LNG carriers
 Single-source supply – who benefits and why?
 Carnival Spirit offers cruise industry’s first smokeless diesel engines
 Complying with the IMO NOx regulation
 More Sulzer RT-flex common-rail engines ordered