CPP

How A Propulsion Retrofit Led to Savings of 800 Litres of Fuel

  • The installation of controllable pitch propeller (CPP) blades with an innovative design along with a new control system on the MV Henrike led to fuel savings of hundreds of litres a day.
  • The general cargo ship MV Henrike went into dry dock to repair damage to its propeller.

Wärtsilä installed a set of new design controllable pitch propeller (CPP) blades alongside a more modern control system with the option to use a combinator mode controls system using a combinator curve, says an article...

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Swing Tankers Unlikely To Enter Trading Fleet Amid Earning Concerns

  • Tankers to continue trading in the CPP market as chemical shipping rates are not likely to be strong enough to attract these vessels back to the chemical trading fleet.
  • Swing tankers will continue to serve in the CPP market until 2021 as demand for diesel and gasoline is projected to recover and e-commerce activity.
  • The return of these tankers may cause oversupply of vessels which in turn will bring down earnings of shipowners.

IMO-class tankers which swung to product trading in 2Q20 due to...

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Two DP2-B-Type Ships Get Futuristic Updates from Wärtsilä Group

The technology group Wärtsilä has been selected to supply a comprehensive package of solutions for two new state-of-the-art vessels being built for the Netherlands-based shipping company Spliethoff, reports the Maritime Executive.

The ships are under construction at the Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding yard in China. The order with Wärtsilä is booked in November 2019.

Dynamic Positioning station-keeping ability

The design of the two DP2-B-type ships combines the intake of a multi-purpose vessel with...

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Damen Shipyards Group Opts for Wärtsilä’s Propulsion Solution

  • The Netherlands’ based shipbuilding company Damen Shipyards Group has selected the technology group Wärtsilä to provide the main propulsion solutions for a large Marine Aggregate Dredger.
  • The scope includes two Wärtsilä 26 engines, two Wärtsilä controllable pitch propellers (CPP), and the Wärtsilä ProTouch bridge control system. 
  • Wärtsilä will prepare the engines ready for use with selective catalytic reduction (SCR) technology to reduce emissions, making the vessel compliant with the...

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