APRIL 19, 2017 —Set to debut in 2018, a 38-knot wavepiercer under construction at Incat in Australia for Virtu Ferries will have Wärtsilä waterjets. With 1,134 passenger seats and a garage deck designed
APRIL 18, 2017 — Wärtsilä is to supply the engines and other propulsion machinery for the Orion, the new 210 m offshore construction vessel being built at the Cosco shipyard in China
APRIL 13, 2016 — Wärtsilä and COSCO shipping Heavy Industry Co (CHI) have jointly developed a natural gas operating fleet concept that has now obtained a Lloyd’s Register’s (LR) Approval in Principle
APRIL 12, 2017 — Wärtsilä is to supply a comprehensive package of engines and propulsion machinery for the mega cutter suction dredge (CSD) recently ordered from Royal IHC in the Netherlands by
APRIL 10, 2017 — Wärtsilä is in the process of signing agreements on Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMS) with a number of major shipyards, the latest being Keppel Shipyard Ltd in Singapore.
APRIL 7, 2017 — A new purse seine fishing trawler to be built at the Karstensen Skibsvaerft shipyard in Denmark for Strand Senior AS, a subsidiary of Norway’s Strand Havfiske AS, will
APRIL 5, 2017 —The results of a joint industry project (JIP) to develop a new LPG-fueled LPG carrier design were unveiled at this week’s Gastech 2017 event in Tokyo. Called LPGreen, the
APRIL 4, 2017 — Two new 170,000 m3 LNG carrier vessels being built for Norway’s Höegh LNG at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) shipyards in Korea will
APRIL 3, 2017 — Athens based Minerva Marine Inc. has signed an agreement with Wärtsilä covering the retrofit of several globally operating tankers with Aquarius ballast water management systems (BWMS). The agreement
MARCH 31, 2017 — Québec City, Canada, headquartered Groupe Desgagnés, Inc. has taken delivery today of the M/T Damia Desgagnés, the first of four 15,000 dwt dual-fueled next generation asphalt-bitumen-chemical tankers ordered