Propulsion and manoeuvring for cruise & ferries
Large cruise liners have to operate in the confines of crowded ports and harbours, and high-cycle point-to-point ferry operations demand a rapid turn-round of their passenger and vehicle cargoes. For both, pinpoint positioning and precise manoeuvring are essential qualities if operators are to meet their passengers’ expectations on everything from comfort to keeping to the timetable.
Through its world-leading portfolio of propulsion and manoeuvring products and fully-integrated systems Rolls-Royce has accumulated huge experience in meeting the motion control demands of cruise ships and ferries of all shapes and sizes.
The propulsion and manoeuvring equipment Rolls-Royce offers includes:
- Waterjets
- Podded electrical propulsion systems
- ‘Promas’ integrated rudder/propeller
- Tunnel and azimuth thrusters
- Azimuth thrusters
- Propellers and reduction gears
- Steering gear and rudders
- Stabilisers
- Automated monitoring and control systems
Not only does the broad range of equipment give customers exactly what they need at the start of a vessel’s life, this equipment, together with regularly emerging new technologies, can also form the basis of upgraded propulsion systems as passenger vessels alter their operational profiles throughout their lifetime.