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  • Eleo’s lineup of battery packs for off-highway applications.

    Eleo Unveils Its New Range of Battery Packs for Off-Highway Applications

    Eleo, a Yanmar company, unveils its new range of battery packs, specifically designed for off-highway applications. The technology is tailored to the specific requirements of low-volume, high-diversity off-highway vehicles and equipment. All battery packs are tested to withstand the dust, shock, vibration, and water that off-highway vehicles and equipment must face.

  • Maritime hydrogen fuel cell system

    Yanmar to Commercialize Maritime Hydrogen Fuel Cell System to Decarbonize Ships

    Yanmar has successfully commercialized a maritime hydrogen fuel cell system to achieve decarbonization of the maritime industry. The company plans to propose the installation of this system on various ships, including passenger ships, work ships, and cargo ships operating in coastal areas where hydrogen refueling is relatively accessible.

  • Yanmar-driven Research Boat on Arctic Mission

    Yanmar-driven Research Boat on Arctic Mission

    It has been nearly a year since Kewatec Shipyards of Finland delivered the Serecraft S14 to Svalbard. The 14-meter work and research boat is powered by YANMAR and used for research at the world's northernmost university, the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS). YANMAR collaborated with Martec AS, a trusted dealer from Norway and a part of the Kewatec Group, to supply the engines. Martec AS played

  • Yanmar SCR system with connected functionality.

    Yanmar Adds Connectivity to Selective Catalytic Reduction System for Marine Engines

    May 18, 2022; Osaka, Japan – Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd. (YPT) a group company of Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. will start offering its proprietary selective catalytic reduction (SCR) exhaust gas purification system*1 with connected functionality and a dedicated management app from mid-May.
    Ships at sea generally do not have a well-developed IT environment, and reducing the time spent on onbo

  • Design Approved for World's First Methane Oxidation Catalyst System

    Promoting Development of Technology to Reduce Methane Slip on LNG-fueled Vessels Toward Further Reducing Environmental Impact
    Hitachi Zosen Corporation, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), and Yanmar Power Technologies Co. (YPT), have received Approval in Principle for the Methane Oxidation Catalyst System (Note 1) from Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK). The system reduces methane slip by placing a me

  • Hydrogen fuel cell demonstration test boat cruising in Osaka Bay

    Yanmar Conducts World's First 70 MPa High-Pressure Ship Refueling with Hydrogen


    October 20th, 2021, (Osaka, Japan) – Yanmar Power Technology (YPT), a Group company of Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd., has conducted the world's first 70 MPa high-pressure hydrogen refueling of a ship using a demonstration test boat equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell system. The test boat cruised on a route around the island of the Osaka-Kansai World Exposition 2025 and famous tourist spots on the

  • HyEng Corporation Established for Joint Development

    Three of Japan’s leading marine engine manufacturers, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd., and Japan Engine Corporation have concluded a joint venture contract for combined investment, and today announced the joint establishment of a new company HyEng Corporation.
    With a view to contributing to decarbonization in Japan, and promoting development of shipbuilding a

  • SHIPSWEB offers timely access to technical information for marine management

    Yanmar to Provide SHIPSWEB Auxiliary Diesel Engine Management Service Free of Charge

    Yanmar Engineering Co., Ltd., is to provide its auxiliary diesel engine management service “SHIPSWEB” free of charge from April 15th, 2020 to March 31st of 2021. With fears growing over protracted spread of the novel coronavirus, Yanmar has decided support users by offering its SHIPSWEB online service free of charge, for customers' peace of mind in their vessel’s everyday maintenance.

  • A representation of the keyword network graph tool in ShipsWeb

    Yanmar Rolls Out SHIPSWEB for Efficient Maritime Management

    Osaka Japan, December 24th, 2019 – Yanmar subsidiary, Yanmar Engineering has announced the deployment of SHIPSWEB, a sophisticated tool for management of auxiliary engines on ocean-going vessels. Available from November 1st, 2019, SHIPSWEB incorporates elements of artificial intelligence and advanced information and communications technology (ICT) to efficiently manage the operation of large auxil

  • A bunker tanker operated by Sinanju Tanker Holdings*1(Photo credit: Sinanju Tanker Holdings)

    Yanmar Receives Order for Dual Fuel Engines

    Yanmar has obtained an order for two 6EY26DF dual fuel engines as the main propulsion engines for a bunker tanker being built by Keppel Offshore & Marine. The vesssel will be Singapore’s first dual-fuel powered bunker tanker running on LNG and marine gas oil. The engines, as well as the liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel supply system, will be delivered for installation in January 2019.