VIDEO: First night drone delivery to a ship

Singapore-headquartered start-up F-drone reports that it has successfully completed the first commercial night drone delivery to a ship. The delivery was made on November 1 when a drone delivered a 3D printed

Brazilian OSV operator in battery hybrid first

Wärtsilä and Brazilian offshore support vessel operator CBO have recently signed an agreement that will see CBO’s platform supply vessel CBO Flamengo become the first vessel in Latin America to be fitted

Impacted by pandemic, Wärtsilä expects 2020 sales to take 10% hit

Releasing its interim report for the January-September 2020 period, Wärtsilä Corporation says it expects the near-term demand in the marine and energy markets to improve from current levels. However, based on its

Harvey Gulf opts for Wärtsilä for latest PSV battery retrofits

New Orleans headquartered Harvey Gulf International Marine has selected Wärtsilä Energy Storage Systems (ESS) for the four further Harvey Energy class dual-fuel platform supply vessels it is to retrofit with batteries (see

Mass Maritime adds cloud-based simulation to defenses against coronavirus

Wärtsilä Voyage is supply two of its advanced cloud-based simulation solutions to Massachusetts Maritime Academy (MMA) under a one-year agreement signed last month that marks the first application of Wärtsilä’s cloud simulation

Odfjell to pilot new flexible fuel cell technology

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg yesterday got a first-hand briefing on new and flexible fuel cell technology said to reduce emissions from shipping by 40% to 100%. Prime Minister Solberg was attending

Wartsila is pulling out of Russia

Wärtsilä divests its valves business

Wärtsilä has divested 100% of the shares in Wärtsilä Valves Ltd to an affiliate of New York City based Evergreen Capital L.P. Located in Brough, U.K., Wärtsilä Valves Ltd. supplies the entire

Wärtsilä names Håkan Agnevall as next President and CEO

Wärtsilä’s Board of Directors has appointed Håkan Agnevall, currently President of Volvo Bus Corporation, as the new President and CEO for Wärtsilä Corporation Agnevall will take up his new role no later

Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker to retrofit Wärtsilä solutions

Wärtsilä has won a contract for the delivery and integration engineering of two retractable thrusters and a dynamic positioning (DP) system for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) icebreaker CCGS Amundsen. Wärtsilä was

Harvey Gulf in tri-fuel vessel first

New Orleans, La., headquartered Harvey Gulf International Marine has completed the installation of a Wärtsilä battery-power system on the PSV Harvey Energy. The PSV was already a dual-fuel vessel capable of fully

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