On March 9, South Korean shipbuilding giant HD Hyundai announced it had signed a ...

Wärtsilä introduced the FPP Opti Design, a new fixed pitch propeller (FPP) design concept. According to Wärtsilä, the new design offers fuel savings of up to 4 percent and highly reliable full scale ...

Combination of carbon, glass and epoxy resin produces a strong replacement for nickel/aluminum/bronze metal, the current propeller standard. Damage-tolerant reinforcing fabric strengthens highly ...

“ABS is first and foremost a safety company,” says Richard Korpus, “but safety can arise on many different fronts. It can refer to the safety of a high-valued asset, for the people who work on that ...

QinetiQ has recently completed sea trials of a new composite propeller in Falmouth Bay, UK. With a 2.9 metre diameter it is the world’s largest propeller. However, despite its immense proportions it ...

What is EGM Propulsion introducing to the commercial marine propulsion market with its modular propeller system? Wayne ...

When a ship needs to stop fast, it cannot rely on brakes, only reverse thrust and precise engine control. This explains how crash stops work across steam and diesel eras, why reverse power is weaker ...

The Kiel University of Applied Sciences (HAW Kiel) has started a research project dedicated to a problem that research has been grappling with for almost 20 years: the low-frequency underwater sound ...