Internationale Pressemitteilungen

Ron Huibers has been appointed new president of Volvo Penta Americas. He succeeds Clint Moore who earlier announced he has decided to retire.

Seven lucky winners of the Volvo Penta European Service Campaign, accompanied by their family and friends as well as their authorized Volvo Penta Dealer, had the unique opportunity to enjoy two thrilling days in the heart of the Volvo Ocean Race village in Galway.

Car drivers start their engines, electrical systems and instruments with the single push of a button. In the boating world it’s not quite that simple – yet. Volvo Penta has started development work for integrated, modularized and more user-friendly helm stations for the boats of tomorrow.

Aufgrund der neuen Einschränkungen der Emissionsbestimmungen sehen sich die Hersteller von Bootsmotoren erhöhten Anforderungen gegenübergestellt. Jetzt erfüllen die weltweit führenden Baureihen D4/D6 von Volvo Penta alle Tier 3-Anforderungen, die weltweit strengsten Umweltschutzbestimmungen für Dieselmotoren zur Verwendung auf See. Das Ergebnis dieser Verbesserung ist eine Motorbaureihe mit höherer Umweltverträglichkeit – jedoch ohne Beeinträchtigung der klassischen Fahrleistungen von Volvo Penta.

The first in a series of five very advanced Coast Guard vessels has reached its final port destination in Falkenberg at the West coast of Sweden.

Volvo Penta is to supply engines for a number of airport fire-fighting vehicles from the company Rosenbauer. This entails a strengthening of the Volvo Group’s cooperation with Rosenbauer, which already builds conventional fire trucks using chassis from Volvo Trucks.

Today, when the China International Boat Show opens in Shanghai, Volvo Penta will be presenting the marine industry’s strongest product range. Extending the use of Volvo Penta’s state-of-the-art engine range would make it possible significantly to reduce the environmental impact of Chinese boat traffic.

In conjunction with the Intermat exhibition in Paris Volvo Penta presents three press releases including both product and business news.

Volvo Penta´s engineer Kåre Jonsson has been appointed Group Senior Specialist within the Volvo Group for his unique propeller competencies.

Princess Yachts is returning to the market for boats under 40 feet with the V39 and diesel engines that are designed to produce world-class acceleration and fuel economy.