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Wärtsilä Defies Euro-Slowdown As Cargotec Suffers
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 can smoothly switch between fuels during engine operation and...
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Wärtsilä: Retrofiting Emissions Scrubbers or Ballast Water Treatment Systems...
Image: Wartsila The following is an informational bulletin from gCaptain sponsor Wärtsilä Upcoming environmental regulations will affect existing vessels, and as a consequence there is a growing...
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Wärtsilä’s Secret Weapon Revealed [HD PHOTOS]
At a press event in Trieste, Italy this week, Finnish marine engine manufacturer Wärtsilä pulled the curtain to reveal the RT-flex 50DF, the world’s first 2-stroke, low-pressure, dual fuel engine. By...
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Terntank Orders LNG-Powered Chemical Tankers
Swedish tanker owner Terntank has stepped forward and placed the first order ever for the new Wärtsilä 5RT-flex50DF dual fuel, low pressure, 2-stroke engine. These engines are to power a pair of...
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Wärtsilä Wins First Order for “Game Changing” Dual-Fuel 2-Stroke Engine
An illustration of the Terntank tankers. Image courtesy Terntank Finnish engine maker Wärtsilä officially announced that it has received its first order for the company’s new “game changing” 2-stroke,...
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Wärtsilä to Power Half-Dozen Stolt Chemical Tankers
Wärtsilä has announced an order today from chemical tanker owner Stolt Tankers B.V. to supply the complete main propulsion systems for six new 38,000 dwt chemical tankers. The ships are being built at...
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Rolls-Royce Expected to Make Offer to Buy Wärtsilä
Wartsila’s manufacturing plant in Trieste, Italy. HELSINKI, Jan 21 (Reuters) – British engineering company Rolls-Royce is expected to make a public offer on the Finnish ship and power plant engine...
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Wärtsilä to Cut 1,000 Employees
After a year “impacted by the continued uncertainty in the global economy,” Wärtsilä CEO Björn Rosengren has announced today the company will be reducing their headcount by 1000 employees globally, 200...
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Wärtsilä Details Scope of PSV Newbuild Contract with Siem Offshore
Following similar orders placed in November 2012 and August 2013, Norwegian OSV operator Siem Offshore has again reached out to Finnish engine manufacturer Wärtsilä to supply the design and integrated...
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TOTE Secures Wärtsilä Technology For Orca LNG Conversions
TOTE conversion with Wärtsilä engines and LNGPac systems. Illustration courtesy Wärtsilä Jones Act-shipper Totem Ocean Trailer Express, a subsidiary of TOTE, Inc., has selected Finnish engine...
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Wärtsilä Unveils New Aframax Tanker Design
Illustration courtesy Wärtsilä Wärtsilä Ship Design has unveiled a new Aframax tanker design said to be highly efficient to meet current and upcoming emissions legislation. The new double hull, single...
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Wärtsilä Introduces New Dual Fuel Engine
Wärtsilä 46DF Finnish engine manufacturer Wärtsilä has expanded its dual fuel (DF) engine line to include the new 46DF, a four-stroke DF engine specifically developed for the high-output market...
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Downward-Angled Thrusters Show Major Efficiency Gains
In a recent conversation with Wim Knoester, Director of Propulsion at Wartsila Ship Power, he described a new thruster design that his company has been working on targeted to the drillship and...
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Finnlines Orders Wärtsilä Emissions Scrubbers
Image courtesy Wartsila PRESS RELEASE – With new stringent sulphur oxide (SOx) emission regulations due to be enforced from January 2015, Finnlines has ordered Wärtsilä Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems for...
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Wärtsilä Engines to Power First Dual-Fuel Icebreaker
The new icebreaker built by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard for the Finnish Transport Agency and powered by Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines will be the most environmentally friendly icebreaker ever built....
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Wärtsilä Sells Majority Stake of 2-Stroke Engine Business to China State...
Wartsila 2-stroke engine, image: Wartsila From now on, Wartsila’s 2-stroke engine business will be listed as “discontinued operations” following an announcement today that it has sold a 70 percent...
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Wärtsilä to Design New Bothnian Corridor Ro-Pax Ferry
Rendering via Wartsila Wärtsilä’s ship design group has been selected to design a new ferry as part of the ‘Midway Alignment of the Bothnian Corridor’ project. This EU-sponsored initiative will...
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Tidewater Subsidiary Orders Wärtsilä-Designed Ice-Class MPSV
The new Wärtsilä Ship Design multi-purpose platform supply vessel features a compact design yet with a high deadweight giving maximum cargo capacity. Wärtsilä signed their second design contract today...
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Wärtsilä launches upgraded version of successful tanker design
Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release 9 September 2014 at 1 pm EET Wärtsilä announces the launch of its SK 5054 MkII ship design, a further development and upgraded version of the successful SK 5054...
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Wärtsilä receives AIP Certificate for its new LNGPac system
Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 9 September 2014 at 11 am EET The new Wärtsilä LNGPac, the upgraded version of the company’s successful LNG fuel handling system, has been granted an AIP (Approval...
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