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propulsion complete propulsion packages, as well as deck machinery.
Wärtsilä drives on
Contact Rolls-Royce International Ltd, Unit 402, 4th
Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract for propulsion floor Asia Tower Building, 6 Nha Tho Street, Hoan Kiem
systems to be installed in the five chemical tankers to be District, Hanoi, Vietnam
built for Iason Hellenic Shipping Co, Greece, at the Pha Tel +84 4 9380 228
Rung shipyard in Haiphong. Each vessel will be equipped Fax +84 4 9380 230
by Wärtsilä with a five-bladed fixed-pitch propeller of 4.3m
www.rolls-royce.com
diameter, shafting, stern-tube including seals and bearings,
and an intermediate shaft bearing. power
A greater scope of supply will be delivered by Wärtsilä
to Vinashin for eight car carriers to be built for Ray Car
Peter Brotherhood
Carriers Ltd, Israel. For each vessel, Wärtsilä will deliver a
steams in
five-bladed Wärtsilä fixed-pitch propeller of 6.45m diameter,
together with shafting, stern-tube seals, shaft bearings, and Fred. Olsen Production has chosen UK engineering
two Wärtsilä transverse thrusters with capacities of 1000kW company Peter Brotherhood Ltd to supply two
each. The contract for these propulsion systems was signed condensing steam turbine generator sets for FPSO Knock
at the beginning of the year. Allan, a vessel which will be deployed in the Olowi field
Wärtsilä also recently received an order via the Ben off the coast of Gabon. Reckoned to be the world’s most
Kien Shipyard in Haiphong that involves the supply of a powerful turbines to be installed on an FPSO, each 27MW
propulsion package for a 564TEU multi-purpose carrier generator set comprises a turbine, gearbox, and generator,
to be built for fellow Vinashin subsidiary Hai Duong all mounted on a common bedplate which incorporates
Shipbuilding & Shipping Co. The vessel, designed by the oil system.
Marine Design & Research Institute of China, will be The turbines will accept steam from gas fired boilers on
115.0m long and feature a moulded breadth of 20.8m. the vessel and will exhaust to a separate condenser, also
The Wärtsilä propulsion package will comprise an supplied by Peter Brotherhood. The generator sets will
eight-cylinder Wärtsilä 38 diesel engine, 4.40m-diameter incorporate features to enable them to operate reliably in
four-bladed controllable-pitch (CP) propeller, shafting,
reduction gearbox, stern tube, and shaft seals. The Wärtsilä
CP propeller will be equipped with a Lipstronic 7000
pitch control system, while the overall engine control
will be provided by a Wärtsilä Unified Controls (UNIC)
C-2 system. The main engine will develop a maximum
continuous power of 5800kW at 600rev/min.
The propulsion package will be delivered to the shipyard
in January 2009.
Contact Wärtsilä Corp, John Stenbergin ranta 2, PO Box
196, FIN-00531 Helsinki, Finland
Tel +358 10 709 0000
Fax +358 10 709 5700 One of the 27mW steam turbine-driven generator sets
www.wartsila.com delivered to Fred. Olsen production.
Ancillary equipment
RR’s Vietnam
a floating environment where they can be affected by, for
example, the pitch and roll of a ship.
marker
The sets have been tested at Peter Brotherhood’s
manufacturing facility and will be delivered to Dubai
Rolls-Royce Marine is stepping up efforts to break into the Drydocks for installation on the top deck of Knock Allan.
Vietnamese market. The company opened new offices in The vessel is currently being converted from a tanker into
Hanoi in January. A Rolls-Royce representative said the an FPSO and it will be able to store 1 million barrels of oil
supplier had already secured two orders for its Syncrolift and produce 22,000 barrels per day once operational.
ship lifting system for two Ministry of Defence yards – the
Song Tu yard and 189 Shipbuilding Co (of Haiphong), and Contact Peter Brotherhood Ltd, Werrington Parkway,
was in negotiations over a third deal. Peterborough PE4 5HG, UK
The company is also reckoned to be in discussions with Tel +44 1733 292200
Vinashin over a joint venture that would look to supply Fax +44 1733 292300
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