Regular readers of Baird Maritime will be quick to notice that the news stories, feature articles, and vessel reviews posted on our site regularly mention ongoing developments with regards to marine engines and propulsion as well as related equipment such as gearboxes and active stabilisers.
One notable trend is growing concern for the environment, as evidenced by the fact that the number of vessels fitted with "clean" technologies such as fully-electric and LNG propulsion is increasing exponentially.
Vessels that run on diesel, petrol, and other more traditional fuels nonetheless continue to be relevant and offer practical as well as economical options for operators who are more oriented towards already proven solutions. This is due mainly to advances in key areas such as efficiency, maintainability, durability, and reliability, ensuring longer operating lives compared to their predecessors.
The more notable inclusions in this week's featured vessels are a 33,000-tonne nuclear-powered icebreaker sailing under the Russian flag and a large, Dutch-owned yacht transport vessel fitted with more conventional engines that comply with strict global emissions standards. These and other vessels will be covered extensively as part of this month's focus on the evolving marine propulsion sector.
– "We chose the system because of its unique guidance and analysis features that can help us to prevent heavy impact loads to crew and the vessel."
– "The company kept its focus on low-emission solutions with the introduction of hybrid maritime drives with electric motors to enable vessel owners to comply with ever-tightening environmental regulations."
– "Our solution offers a combination of improved cost of operation and increased mission availability for planing vessels in one system."
– "Our systems offer exceptional performance and safety, compliance with international standards at the system level, and highly intuitive operation."
– "When products are performing well and they deliver clean and dry oil, customers experience fewer unplanned downtimes and longer service lives of components and oil."
– "The main benefits that owners and operators talk about are the need for little to no maintenance, ease of installation, and their ability to last longer than competitors' products."
– "We still see that customers recognise the unique value that our engines offer in terms of efficiency."
– "We control all in the production chain, from the design, the patterns manufacturing, casting, CNC machining and finishing, to dynamic balancing, and then final dimensional controls and reports."
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