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Shipham Valves Launches New Range of Composite Wafer Check Valves
PRESS RELEASE — Shipham Valves, a subsidiary of Wärtsilä, has completed the development programme for a new range of composite single plate wafer check valves, which will be introduced to the market...
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Wärtsilä Surpasses 2,000 Gas Fueled Engines Sold
Wärtsilä 50DF engine Wärtsilä said this week that it has now sold more than 2,000 of its gas fueled engines which have together accumulated more than 7 million operational running hours, further...
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Siem Offshore Orders their First LNG-Powered PSV, Designed and Powered by...
Wärtsilä announced today they have been contracted to supply an integrated engineering solution to an LNG-powered Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) newbuild project in conjunction with Norwegian yard...
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Performance Optimization for the Commercial Shipping Market
Emma Maersk in the Straits of Gibraltar, image (c) Wärtsilä Wärtsilä hosted a webinar yesterday on the subject of “Performance Optimization for the Merchant Marine Market” and it was moderated by Atte...
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Wärtsilä to Power North America’s First LNG Passenger Ferry
Wärtsilä LNGPac. Wärtsilä said Monday the company has been awarded a contract to provide the gas powered propulsion machinery and storage and handling systems for North America’s first LNG-powered...
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Wärtsilä to Design Advanced DSV for Subsea 7
An illustration of the new VS 4725 DSV design. Image: Wärtsilä Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, said Wednesday that its ship design unit has been hired to...
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Anthony Veder Orders Wärtsilä Dual Fuel Engines for Pair of Newbuild LEG/LPG...
Controllable Pitch Propeller by Wartsila Wärtsilä announced today they have been contracted to supply the complete dual-fuel propulsion package for two 4700 CBM Liquefied Ethylene Gas (LEG)/Liquefied...
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Meyer Werft Delivers the Dual Fuel-Powered LNG Carrier Coral Energy
Anthony Veder’s Coral Energy, just launched from Meyer Werft The Wärtsilä 50DF medium-speed engine can be run either on natural gas or on light fuel oil (LFO) or on heavy fuel oil (HFO). The engine...
View ArticleWärtsilä to Power New Scottish RoPax
Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions and services provider, has been selected to supply the main engines and auxiliary generating sets for a new Scottish owned ferry. The RoPax vessel,...
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Wärtsilä Calls off Temporary Lay-offs as Engine Demand Improves
HELSINKI – Finnish ship and power plant engine maker Wartsila said it was calling off temporary lay-offs at its plant in Vaasa, western Finland, due to improved demand. The firm started temporary...
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Scrubbing Up Well: The Evolving Market For Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems
Hybrid exhaust scrubber, image: Wartsila Over the last few years, the exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS) / scrubber market within the maritime industry has accelerated and with it so has scrubber...
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Wärtsilä and Alfa Laval See Jump in Orders for Emissions Scrubbers
Alfa Laval Aalborg’s PureSOx A jump in scrubber orders for Alfa Laval and Wartsila reflects a general trend of higher uptake of these systems. Finland’s Wartsila has received about 20 orders for...
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Wärtsilä Awarded PSV Design Contract from Bumi Armada
Image (c) Wartsila Malaysia’s largest offshore supply vessel (OSV) operator, Bumi Armada, has just awarded Wärtsilä the contract to design the series of four new build multi-purpose platform support...
View ArticleWärtsilä 34DF Receives United States EPA Compliance Certificate
Wärtsilä has obtained certification of emission standard compliance from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its Wärtsilä 34DF dual-fuel engines. It will enable Wärtsilä to...
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HHI and Wartsila Win Bid for New Heavy Construction Vessel
Wärtsilä announced today they have won the design contract for a large heavy construction vessel (HCV) to be built at Hyundai Heavy Industries for Subsea 7. Their VS 4285 HCV design was chosen out of...
View ArticleWartsila Advice Confirms Castrol Concerns on Single Oils
Castrol Marine has welcomed new guidance from Wärtsilä that undermines claims that mid-range base number (BN) oils represent a single cylinder oil solution for marine 2-stroke engines. The advice...
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China Navigation Selects Wärtsilä Propulsion for Two Dozen New Ships
MV Shansi, image: Wartsila, click for larger Singapore-based China Navigation Co. Pte. Ltd (CNCo) has chosen Wärtsilä to supply propulsion packages for 24 of their new Multi-Purpose Vessels and...
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Can a Wärtsilä Vasa 32 Diesel Really Self-Destruct?
Image: Wartsila The following question was posted today in the gCaptain Forum: One of the suggested ignition sources for the Deepwater Horizon explosion was that the No. 3 engine ingested hydrocarbon...
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Wärtsilä Gains on LNG-Powered PSV Order from Siem Offshore
Siem Offshore’s new 89.2 metre long Wärtsilä VS 4411 LNG-powered PSV will be built by Remontowa Shipbuilding Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) — Wärtsilä Oyj, a Finnish maker of ship engines, rose the most in eight...
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Color Line Orders Wärtsilä Emissions Scrubbers
Image: Color Line Superspeed, via Facebook The Baltic region is a hot-bed of environmentally-aware shipowners at the moment as current and anticipated environmental legislation will require ships...
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