The Arctic North end of Russia is believed to hold as much as a quarter of all the world's oil deposits - an utterly monstrous economic prize, hidden in one of the toughest and least hospitable ...

ABB released this video today that gives a new look at their Azipod ship propulsion systems that they are successfully integrating on board a number of different vessels including icebreakers, ...

With the roll-out of ABB’s Azipod “D” series of gearless thruster this past March, I decided to make my way over to Helsinki to see where and how these impressive machines were built, and upon arrival ...

Eight Azipod C compact propulsion systems installed on 'Pacific Orca' and 'Pacific Osprey', the world’s largest wind farm installation vessels (WIV). The Azipod systems were delivered to the Samsung ...

Is there anything on a cruise ship that seems to break more regularly, or with more significant consequence, than the podded propulsion systems that now power a majority of the global fleet? The ...

ABB has secured a contract with shipbuilder Fincantieri to deliver in total eight mid-range Azipod propulsion systems for four forthcoming medium-sized cruise vessels. The ships are due for delivery ...