A catastrophic engine failure led to a fire aboard a towing vessel on the Tennessee River last year, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports. An engine-room fire broke out on January ...

A clear explanation of how a ship’s main engine operates, covering fuel intake, combustion, power generation, and how that energy drives the propeller to move the vessel through the water.

The future of carbon-neutral aviation and shipping relies not just on innovative, more efficient vehicles but also on new-generation engines that are compatible with alternative fuels. Just as ...

This Safety Alert addresses the importance of installing noncombustible materials in machinery space boundaries with dry exhaust systems. A recent marine casualty resulting in an engine room fire ...

Around 20 ships are stuck in traffic along Germany's river Rhine, where low water levels have already impeded shipping this summer, after a vessel's engine failure closed part of the waterway, ...

A Russian-flagged cargo vessel has sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, per Russia's foreign ministry. The Ursa Major ship went down after an explosion in the engine room, the ministry said. It comes after ...

Wärtsilä will supply the main engines for two new pusher tugs being built for Brazilian operator AMAGGI. The ships are under ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Marine Engines Market by Power (<1, 1-5, 5-10, 10-20 & >20) 000 hp, Vessel (Commercial, Offshore), Fuel (Heavy, Intermediate, Marine ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover innovation within the green/blue industrial revolution. The engines on ships are some of the most powerful in the world, ...

Traffic along the river Rhine, impeded by low water levels, was hindered further on Wednesday after a vessel's engine failure closed part of the waterway, said the river police. BERLIN, Aug 17 ...