four-stroke engines
››› dwt tanker Alba Marina (ex-Seapride), which was built in 1999 by Dalian New Shipyard in China. Fincantieri’s Palermo yard in Sicily will undertake the conversion for Italian owner PB
Chinese Fisheries Administration’s latest patrol vessel, Zhong Guo Yu Zheng, is propelled by twin Cummins QSK60 high speed engines, each delivering 1,470kW at 1,800 rpm. The 57.3m-long/500 dwt vessel was built with
The Chinese Fisheries Department’s new patrol vessel
Tankers of Rome, part of the Pietro Barbaro group, under a contract with the Italian energy group Edison which will operate the facility in the Adriatic Sea.
Twin QSK60 engines propel fishery patrol vessel
accommodation for up to 30 personnel by the Rushan City Ship Building yard in northern China’s Shandong Province.
A speed of 18 knots is provided by the engines driving a single 2.85m-diameter CP
propeller via a reduction gearbox (7.5397:1 ratio) supplied by Hangzhou Advance Masson Marine Transmission Ltd. Electrical power demands are met by a pair of 200kW gensets driven by Cummins 855 engines.
MAN Diesel & Turbo’s Polish four-stroke licensee FSA was due to deliver the gensets under a tight schedule by end-2011, a key factor in securing the deal.
Cat/ACD venture to build MaKs in China
A joint venture between Caterpillar Inc. and Anqing CSSC Diesel Engine will manufacture the US group’s smaller bore MaK medium speed marine engines for China and the Asia Pacific region. The partnership represents the first joint venture by Caterpillar in medium speed engine production anywhere in the world. “The joint venture continues our strategy of developing partnerships with leading Chinese companies as we deploy our comprehensive business model in China,” says Richard Case, Caterpillar vice president with responsibility for its marine petroleum power division. “The partnership will position Caterpillar to better compete and support its growing base of customers in China and across Asia.”
Anqing CSSC Diesel Engine (ACD) is part of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation which has reportedly ranked second worldwide for five consecutive years in terms of the number of ships built. As a supporting enterprise, ACD has enjoyed swift growth during the country’s 11th Five- Year Plan period. The 12th Five-Year Plan emphasises the need to strengthen the marine industry, particularly medium speed engine production, so the joint venture project directly supports this aim, notes Kevin Thieneman, Caterpillar’s country manager for China. “To partner with Caterpillar in creating
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a joint venture and introduce MaK product lines is conducive to the next-step development of ACD, especially in tapping the marine engineering market,” comments CSSC general manager Tan Zuojun. According to ACD chairman Zhang Haisen, the joint venture will focus on improving production efficiency and management, lowering the purchasing costs of parts and expanding sales. Having grown to a certain scale in the future, he adds, the joint venture and Caterpillar will develop new models and enhance the joint venture’s engineering capability to support its sustainable development.
Located in Anqing and expected to start operations in mid-2012, the partnership will produce MaK M20 and M25 medium speed marine engines. Caterpillar Marine Trading Shanghai will be responsible for product distribution, application engineering, after-sales services and the aftermarket spares business. Caterpillar says it is committed to increasing the range of products and components in China, where its presence has grown over four decades from a single office in Beijing to field 16 manufacturing facilities, with nine new facilities under construction, four R&D centres, three logistics and parts centres, and a financial leasing company. More than 20,000 personnel in Caterpillar and its independent dealer network support Caterpillar
customers in China. • The largest engines supplied by Caterpillar Marine Power Systems to any US government or military project will serve USNS Howard O Lorenzen, a T-AGM 25 missile range instrumentation ship. Built by VT Halter Marine in Pascagoula, MS, the 160m-long vessel was handed over in January to the US Military Sealift Command for crewing by government and civilian personnel in diverse missions. A diesel-electric power and propulsion plant is based on four MaK V12-cylinder M32C DEP medium speed engines, each rated for 5,500kW. Emergency power will be supplied by a Cat C32 high speed diesel genset. • Germanischer Lloyd will conduct Marine Service Assessment (MSA) certifications for Caterpillar’s worldwide marine dealer network, which sells, services and supports the group’s marine diesel engines and gensets. Caterpillar will use the MSA as the basis of a high-level standard for assessing dealer performance and quality globally, with a certified result serving as the benchmark for superior service capabilities. Caterpillar established the MSA programme to objectively assess marine dealers using formalised metrics, with the aim of identifying improvements that dealers could implement to ensure customers received the expected service, regardless of a ship’s location. GL’s independent assessment of the ›››
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