Schottel

Windcat opts for Schottel propulsion for hydrogen-fueled CSOVs

SRP-D thruster selected for Wincat CSOVs

The first three in the series of hydrogen-fueled Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOVs) ordered at Damen Shipyards by CMB Group’s offshore personnel transfer subsidiary Windcat (see earlier story) will feature full Schottel propulsion packages.

The 87-meter long by 20-meters wide Elevation Series walk-to-work CSOVs will come have comfortable accommodations for 120 passengers, and will provide a large warehouse and deck as well as various recreational areas and a hospital. The propulsion...

https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/offshore-wind/windcat-opts-for-schottel-propulsion-for-hydrogen-fueled-csovs/

Two more CMAL hybrid ferries will have Leclanché battery systems

Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, based energy storage system specialist Leclanché SA (SIX: LECN) has been selected for a second battery system project for vessels under construction for Scotland’s Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL). The contract will see Leclanché supply a 1.1 MWh Navius MRS-3TM marine rack system, with integrated cooling system, for each of two RoPax ferries on order at Turkey’s Cemre Shipyard to serve three islands in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands. The identical...

https://www.marinelog.com/passenger/ferries/two-more-cmal-hybrid-ferries-will-have-leclanche-battery-systems/

World’s first hydrogen-fueled tug features Schottel propulsion

HydroTug drive system

Launched earlier this year by Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Amon, the world’s first hydrogen-fueled tug, the HydroTug, will be among the cleanest vessels in the fleet of the Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium when it goes to work in early 2023.

With the HydroTug, the Port of Antwerp-Bruges is making an important step in the transition to a sustainable, CO2-neutral port,” says Jacques Vandermeiren, CEO at Port of Antwerp-Bruges.”The port is systematically pursuing a policy of making its entire...

https://www.marinelog.com/technology/worlds-first-hydrogen-fueled-tug-features-schottel-propulsion/

Cleaner Air In Ports: U.S. Scrubber Barge To Be Propelled By Schottel

SCHOTTEL Scrubber Barge collage

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 – Maritime, Inc. (CAE-M), based in San Pedro, California.

Image Credits: schottel.de

The system is called the Marine Exhaust Treatment System or METS-3 and was designed by Fassmer Techincal Projects and will be built at U.S. shipyard Greenbrier...

https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/cleaner-air-in-ports-u-s-scrubber-barge-propelled-by-schottel/

Scrubber barge will clean up emissions from ships in California ports

Scrubber barge will be joystick controlled

A self-propelled, scrubber barge vessel being built to to capture and treat exhaust stack emissions vessels in the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles is to have a Schottel propulsion system. The 26 meter long and 13 meter wide barge is to be built by the Greenbrier Marine shipyard in Portland, Oregon, for Clean Air Engineering – Maritime, Inc. (CAE-M), which develops and operates systems that remove diesel emissions from the auxiliary engines and boilers of ocean-going vessels while at berth...

https://www.marinelog.com/technology/scrubber-barge-will-clean-up-emissions-from-ships-in-california-ports/

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