A Norwegian invention is reducing by a third the energy that foundries need to manufacture ship propeller blades. Some of the propeller blades manufactured by Oshaug Metall AS in Molde are so big that ...

Two mechanical sails have been installed on board Jumbo's heavy lift vessel (HLV) Jumbo Jubilee. The wind assisted ship propulsion (WASP) solution is the latest in a series of innovative technologies ...

A Norwegian invention is reducing by a third the energy that foundries need to manufacture ship propeller blades. Some of the propeller blades being manufactured are so big that if the complete ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. SINTEF has now designed and manufactured new measuring equipment for model testing of contra-rotating propellers. This could be good ...

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It took months of planning, a giant weighted crane, and a lot of patience, but it all paid off last week as crews saved a massive brass ship propeller from the scrapheap and delivered it to the ...

Modern international trade is only possible because of our fleets of seafaring cargo ships. And as these gigantic vessels continue to grow to meet the increasing demands of a rapidly globalizing ...

Ship propellers are as large as a single-family home - and manufacturing them is quite a challenge. During the casting process, pores and miniscule cracks can form that in the worst case may cause a ...

Ship propellers, churning out their wakes with magnificent forcefulness. look pretty efficient. But John H. MacMillan Jr., president of Cargill, Inc. of Minneapolis, suspected them of churning a ...