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"Next Generation" Eco-Ferry to Use Wärtsilä Dual-Fuel Engines
Wärtsilä Corp. (Wärtsilä) Thursday announced it would supply bunker saving dual-fuel engines as part of a “next generation” RoPax ferry being built for AS Tallink Grupp (Tallink).
“The Wärtsilä engines are more energy efficient and thus consume less fuel, and for a next generation environmentally sustainable ferry that is what we were especially looking for,” said Tarvi-Carlos Tuulik, Head of Ship Management for Tallink.
The engines will give Tallink the option to meet its Emissions Control Area (ECA) obligations by burning Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) bunkers.
“When operating in gas mode, the sulphur oxide (SOx) and particle emissions from the Wärtsilä DF engines are negligible at almost zero percent,” said Wärtsilä.
“Furthermore, the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions are at least 85 percent below those specified in the current IMO regulations, and CO2 emissions are some 25 percent less than those of a conventional marine engine running on diesel fuel.”
Wärtsilä will supply three 12-cylinder Wärtsilä 50DF and two 6-cylinder Wärtsilä 50DF main engines, as well as two Wärtsilä fixed pitch propellers and propeller shaft lines.
It said the equipment would be supplied to shipbuilders Meyer Turku Oy in 2016 ahead of the proposed delivery date in 2017.
“The ferry will operate at fairly high speed and to very tight schedules,” said Wärtsilä.
“It is, therefore, important to the customer that the main engine propulsion is highly efficient and extremely reliable.”
The 212 metre-long, 49,000 gross tonne ferry will carry 2,800 passengers and is Tallink’s first order from MeyerTurku since 2002.
