INBRIEF

摘要

Japan, Jordan and Turkey have become the latest countries to ratify the IMO ballast water convention, prompting secretary-general, Koji Sekimizu, to predict that full ratification will happen by the end of the year. At time of press, contracting support totalled 43 countries, representing 32.54% of world tonnage. ZF Marine has introduced the W10000 workboat transmission to its ToughGear series. It is rated to 2,610kW at 2,100rpm and available at ratios from 2.0:1 to 7.9:1.