Berg Propulsion is to deliver the first examples of the newly launched Berg Controllable Pitch Propeller (BCP) with feathering capability, with separate orders for installations on board two chemical tankers under construction at the Dingheng (Jiangsu) Shipbuilding Co, in China, and an 85.5m long ferry being built at Eastern Shipbuilding Group, of Panama City, Florida.

The “Abu Dhabi class” design of the corvette for the U.A.E., due for delivery early 2011, has been developed from the “Cigala Fulgosi”, on the basis of which four “Comandanti” class vessels were built for the Italian Navy. In addition to an option…

The SonarBell™, which is a result of a collaboration between the British companies SALT, Avon Rubber p.l.c and ARTIS, is introduced as a maintenance free, passive sonar locator system, that operates by focusing energy like a lens to amplify sound levels and reflect them to the sender.