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How cruise ships maneuver in tight ports, bow thrusters, twin screws, and parallel parking at sea
Watching a cruise ship slide sideways into a berth looks effortless, but it is a careful balance of thrust, hydrodynamics, and control. This explains how bow thrusters, twin propellers, and rudders ...
Last month a Hydrex team replaced the bow thruster of a 191-meter roro ship during the vessel’s stop in Rotterdam. Using one of the company’s workboats, the diver/technicians carried out the operation ...
When the bow thruster unit of a 348-meter container vessel needed to be overhauled, Hydrex sent a diver/technician team to the ship to remove the unit on-site and reinstall it again two months later ...
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