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SCHOTTEL RudderPropellers for five new WSA vessels

SCHOTTEL is to equip five new traffic safety vessels for the German Rhine Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSA) with electrically driven SCHOTTEL RudderPropellers. The Bolle shipyard in Derben, Germany, has been commissioned with the …
Feb 8, 2024 / Curious

Schottel to propel US scrubber barge, help cut emissions in ports

The German propulsion expert SCHOTTEL has been awarded a contract to supply rudder propellers on a self-propelled barge-based vessel stack exhaust capture and treatment system. It will be produced and operated by U.S. company Clean Air Engineering - …
May 27, 2022 / Vessels

Hybrid, emission-reduced, environmentally friendly: Starnav opts for SCHOTTEL solutions

With a milestone project for South America, the Brazilian towage group Starnav is setting sails to reach the IMO 2030 goals: Starnav has contracted Detroit shipyard in Itajaí, Brazil, for equipping four newly built tugs with SCHOTTEL …
Aug 29, 2021 / Vessels

Five powerful low-emission tugs for HaiSea Marine propelled by SCHOTTEL

SCHOTTEL will deliver a total of ten rudder propellers and two transverse thrusters to Turkish Sanmar Shipyards. These will be installed in two LNG-fuelled escort tugs, as well as in three battery-powered harbour tugs. Ordered by Canadian HaiSea …
Jul 28, 2021 / Curious

SCHOTTEL drives for nine other Russian dry cargo carriers

SCHOTTEL has supplied drive units for nine other newly built dry cargo carriers. Each of the ships, which were designed by the Russian designer Marine Engineering Bureau, will be equipped with two rudder propellers from the German propulsion …
Feb 12, 2021 / Curious

Voith delivers innovative electric Voith Schneider Propeller to Norwegian shipping company Østensjø

Voith receives order for eight electric VSP for four new offshore service vessels of the Norwegian shipping company ØstensjøAccurate dynamic positioning (DP) and highest maneuvering performance were the decisive factorsThe new, all-electric Voith …
Jul 1, 2020 / Curious

Chinese harbour tug features SCHOTTEL Rudderpropellers

The German propulsion expert SCHOTTEL has recently secured a contract to provide propulsion units for a newly built harbour tug under construction at Tongfang Jiangxin Shipbuilding in China. This new tugboat, ordered by the Taizhou Maritime Safety …
Feb 18, 2020 / Curious

Aker Arctic to supply propellers and shaft lines to new Finnish Navy multi-role corvettes

On 26th September 2019, the Finnish Defence Forces Logistics Command and Aker Arctic Technology Inc signed a contract for the design, delivery and integration of complete propulsion lines to four Pohjanmaa-class multi-role corvettes for the Finnish …
Oct 11, 2019 / Naval

Brunvoll to deliver propulsion systems to autonomous ship

Brunvoll has signed a contract with the Kongsberg Group on delivery of propulsion system to "Yara Birkeland". Brunvoll's delivery includes two pulling azimuth propellers for propulsion and two tunnel thrusters for maneuvering, all of which will gain …
Feb 25, 2019 / Curious