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Wärtsilä Engines for Fuel-Saving Post Panamax Boxships
Wärtsilä Corp. says it will supply the main engines for four bunker-saving Post Panamax container ships being built for Turkey's Ciner Group.
The 9,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) ships will use 8-cylinder Wärtsilä X92 main engines, which use electronically controlled common-rail technology and are said to reduce fuel consumption with flexible fuel injection and exhaust valve operations, provide stable running speeds at as little as 12 percent of nominal speed, have smokeless operations, and give better control of emissions.
"The 9000 TEU container ships that have recently been contracted with HHIC, and which are being powered by Wärtsilä X92 engines, incorporate one of the most fuel efficient and environmentally advanced container ship designs available on the market today," said Vassilis Papakalodoukas, CEO of Ciner Shipping Industry & Trading Inc.
"We are proud to be in a position to be operating such ECO-type container ships, which will contribute to the well-being of our society and our charterers."
The ships will be built at Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction (HHIC) shipyard's facilities in the Philippines.
Common-rail fuel injection technology is also a central aspect of fuel-saving MAN Diesel systems being used on two Viking Ocean cruise ships.
