Wärtsilä Launches New Marine Products Wärtsilä has launched its communication and control center – the Wärtsilä 3C – at the SMM exhibition in Hamburg, Germany, which started today and runs through Friday. The company also has introduced a propulsion condition monitoring service (PCMS) designed to provide customers with real-time data and analytics on the condition of a vessel’s propulsion equipment. The Wärtsilä 3C integrates an entire vessel’s control unit into a common interface. It’s designed for leveraging energy management and navigation as well as optimizing the ship’s efficiency and reducing its emissions, according to the company. MTU Friedrichshafen Introduces New Gen-Set At SMM Exhibition At this year’s SMM exhibition, which runs from today until Friday in Hamburg, Germany, MTU Friedrichshafen, a Tognum subsidiary, will introduce a new, standardized generator set for diesel-electric propulsion and onboard power generation. The gen-set family consists of a workboat engine from the MTU Series 4000 Ironmen, with a choice of 8-, 12- or 16-cylinders, a generator and electronic control system mounted on a rigid base frame. The gen-set, which covers a power range of 760 to 2240 kW, is designed for commercial marine applications, such as offshore supply vessels for wind parks or oil and gas platforms. GE Marine Gas Turbines To Power U.S. Navy Vessels GE Marine’s LM2500 aeroderivative marine gas turbines will be used to power the U.S. Navy’s new Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. GE has received orders for the first three of an expected nine ships, which are being built as part of the U.S. Navy’s DDG 51 program. The DDG 51 program already has 57 destroyers and five additional ships under construction, all of which are powered by GE’s LM2500 gas turbines, said Brien Bolsinger, GE Marine’s general manager. Wärtsilä To Convert Product Tanker To LNG Propulsion Wärtsilä, a ship power products provider, has signed a turnkey contract with Tarbit Shipping of Sweden to convert a product tanker to LNG propulsion, as well as supply the ship with its LNGPac system to store the LNG onboard. This is Wärtsilä’s first order for its LNGPac system. The contract covers the conversion of the ship’s two main engines to gas-fuelled propulsion, all adjustments to the ship’s systems, updating the ship’s classification certificate and supplying and installing the LNGPac system, which includes two 500 m³ LNG storage tanks, Wärtsilä said. Marine Group Boat Works Builds New Military Vessel Marine Group Boat Works, a service facility that handles repairs, retrofits and other services for boats, has built the new U.S. Navy Range Training Support Craft (RTSC-110), a U.S.A. military vessel capable of launching and recovering objects, such as small high-speed craft, aerial targets and test weapons. The RTSC-110, which is designed to run on biofuel and features shore power capability, also includes six internal Seakeeper M7000 gyro stabilization systems for crew safety and comfort and is 34.7 m long. Mitsubishi Develops Hybrid Turbocharger Wärtsilä Signs Agreement To Service Oceanic Vega MAN Diesel & Turbo To Supply 14 Large-Bore Diesel Engines To Bergen Group Fosen MAN Diesel & Turbo Develops Turbocharger Cut-Out Retrofit Wärtsilä Receives Orders For Engines, Upgrade Kits MAN Diesel & Turbo To Supply Eight Engines To Norwegian Shipbuilder Rolls-Royce Receives Several Orders In Last Few Weeks ZF Marine Opens New Technical Training Center Yichang Marine Diesel Engine Of China Completes First Mitsubishi-UE Engine Caterpillar Powers Lake Cruise Vessel