Shallow Draught Thruster
High maneuverability for shallow water environments
Shallow Draught Thruster
Key Facts
What can Shallow Draught Thruster provide?
The Shallow Draught Thruster is the perfect solution for vessels which are required to navigate in shallow waters. It is typically used in pontoons, landing crafts, ferries and workboats as main propulsion thruster, auxiliary propulsion thruster. The Shallow Draught Thruster can be provided in a performance range of 50-825 kW.
Details
Options
All ZF Azimuth Thrusters are developed and produced in-house and thus, can be customized according to the customer’s wishes.
- Z-drive or L-drive
- Control system ThrusterCommand is integral part of the propulsion system
- Mounting configuration
- Well mounted from top
- Drive options
- Diesel engine, using upper gearbox and wet or dry operated clutch (Z-drive)
- Electric motor, both horizontal (Z-drive) and vertical (L-drive)
- Hydraulic motor (L-drive)
- Steering of the thruster
- Electric or hydraulic steering
- Cooling
- Sea water
- Fresh water
- Resilient suspension to reduce vibrations
- In some cases the Tunnel Thruster can be an alternative for a Shallow Draught Thruster
- Classification by all major classification societies
- Available with Condition Monitoring System
ZF Shallow Draught Thruster portfolio: power range
Product Configurator
Here you can find technical information to define the product best suited to your application with the Marine Product Selection Guide.
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