FROM THE SCHOTTEL WORLD

With the founding of SCHOTTEL East Asia, SCHOTTEL is advancing the expansion of its international network. Seongki Han has been appointed General Manager of the new subsidiary based near Busan, South Korea. He has more than 20 years of experience in the maritime market. With the new subsidiary, SCHOTTEL will be even closer to customers and partners in the region. Business operations began on 1 April.

With the new SRP-D ("Dynamic"), SCHOTTEL is launching a rudder propeller that even better meets the increased requirements for the efficient operation of W2W vessels. Based on the proven principle of the rudder propeller, an economical yet powerful solution has been developed that greatly improves the positional accuracy of the vessel in DP operation. Operators benefit from the significant increase in performance and thus possible operating times in close proximity to offshore structures, especially in demanding weather conditions.

In 1921, Josef Becker sets up a workshop in a small village on the Rhine. In 1950, his invention of the rudder propeller that is steerable through 360 degrees initiates a multitude of developments that allow SCHOTTEL to grow into a global company

Digital products and services open up numerous possibilities for optimizing ship operations—whether for tugs, ferries or offshore supply vessels. SCHOTTEL experts present new solutions and explain how operators can benefit from them in their daily work

Whether azimuth thruster or controllable pitch propeller, main propulsion unit or manoeuvring aid, propulsion system or digital solution: SCHOTTEL products are used worldwide in vessels of all types and sizes. The world map locates the 500 vessels most recently equipped with SCHOTTEL propulsion units

Ferries are an important part of the infrastructure in many areas of the world. And this is no different on Lake Victoria in East Africa. To reliably carry people and supply them with goods, one of the ferries has been fitted with new SCHOTTEL propulsion systems

Ships from Eastern Shipbuilding Group can be found from coast to coast in the United States and around the world. After 45 years, the shipyard has become one of the most diverse vessel construction companies in the United States with three main facilities along the coast of Florida's panhandle

The Wismar SCHOTTEL subsidiary specializes in the development and production of particularly large propulsion systems. In a production and storage area of 15,000 square metres, propulsion units for extra powerful vessels are manufactured. Even though the site is experienced with large dimensions, each machine is impressive in its size like these customer specific versions.

Since Wendy Lee started working at SCHOTTEL Far East in 2005, the subsidiary has grown from a modest office with a workshop to a professionally equipped site with an 80-tonne lifting capacity and a spare parts warehouse. Here she describes how this growth affected her career