Recently Hydrex carried out six stern tube seal operations all across Europe in a very short time span. Here is a review of two of the repairs: In Flushing the four damaged seals of a 268-meter ...

Shipyard Gebr. Kooiman BV in Zwijndrecht successfully started with the production of an in-house developed Kooiman Stern Tube Aft Seal several years ago. Kooiman now has obtained Bureau Veritas Type ...

Since ship propulsion shifted from sails to propellers, preventing seawater from getting into the hull via the stern tube has been one of the most fundamental engineering challenges of designing and ...

Wärtsilä Corporation, Trade press release, 9 October 2013 at 11 am EET Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading solutions and services provider, has launched its new Bio Seal Ring(TM) product for ...

In the early 1900s - around the time that naval vessels were first experimenting with diesel engines - another important innovation was emerging at the other end of the propeller shaft line. This ...