Remontowa Shipbuilding, Gdansk has awarded HYDROMASTER the contract for delivery of the Azimuth Propulsion thrusters for two new passenger and vehicle ferries. These ferries are to be operated by the Transport for London’s River Thames crossing between Woolwich and North Woolwich.

Both ferries are of a LMG Marin 60-DEH design, each one equipped with a set of four HYDROMASTER Azimuth thrusters rated at 300 kW, driven by vertical mounted permanent magnet motors from a DC grid system.