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Indian Tanker Gets Fuel Saving Retrofit
MAN Diesel & Turbo (MAN Diesel) says its PrimeServ retrofit team will install fuel-saving propellers promising a 4 percent reduction in fuel use on an Indian tanker.
The company signed a deal with Great Eastern Shipping Co. (GESCO) of Mumbai to retrofit its M/T Jag Lavanya, a 2004-built 105,000 deadweight-tonne (dwt) crude oil carrier.
The fixed-pitch propellers use the Kappel blade design, which has been shown to improve fuel efficiency and performance.
"With this vessel's speed and operating profile, the new Kappel propeller will deliver a fuel saving of 4% together with a reduced level of pressure impulses to hull – and without adding any other, efficiency-improving devices," said Christian Wollerup Sørensen, sales manager for MAN Diesel.
The four-bladed 6.9-metre propellers, produced by Dalian Marine Propeller (DMPC) in China, will be delivered in January 2014.
"As a result of the excellent and efficient cooperation between the Mumbai shipowners and MAN Diesel & Turbo's India and Frederikshavn locations – and last, but not least, our Dalian Marine Propeller (DMPC) production partner in China – we agreed upon an extraordinarily short delivery time to match a planned docking by the vessel", Sørensen said.
MAN Diesel took over Kappel in March of 2012, saying the propeller designs would help provide more efficiency in both new and retrofit vessels.
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