The vessel is being built by Austal at the Australian shipbuilder\u2019s yard in the Philippines for Danish operator Molslinjen. <\/p>\n
It will feature four\u00a0W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 31<\/a>\u00a0engines, recognised by Guinness World Records as being the world\u2019s most efficient 4-stroke diesel engine, and four high-performance\u00a0W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 WXJ1500SRI waterjets<\/a>. <\/p>\n W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 will also supply its\u00a0ProTouch bridge controls system<\/a> as part of the contract, secured in May this year.<\/p>\n \u201cThis combination of the W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 31 engine and WXJ waterjets is unique for fast ferries, delivering exceptional fuel efficiency, reliability, quality and performance. This is an exciting project, and we are honoured to have been selected to provide the level of propulsion demanded,\u201d<\/em> says Stefan Nysj\u00f6<\/strong>, Marine Power Solutions, W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 Marine.<\/p>\n This large ferry will be capable of carrying 1610 passengers, and will have space for 450 cars or 617 lane metres for trucks plus 257 cars. It will have an operating service speed of close to 37 knots.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will be, by volume, the largest ferry ever built in our shipyards, and it will offer a powerful, yet economical and environmentally-friendly solution,\u201d <\/em>says Wayne Murray,<\/strong> President Austal Philippines.<\/p>\n This is the first time the WXJ waterjets and the W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 31 engine have been used in combination for a fast ferry, the company said.<\/p>\n The W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 equipment will be delivered to the yard commencing in July 2021, and the ferry is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2022. <\/p>\n It will operate on the Molslinjen Bornholm route between Ystad and R\u00f8nne in Denmark.<\/p>\n The post W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4’s propulsion solutions selected for special high-speed ferry<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The technology group W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 has won an order to provide propulsion solutions for a new 115 metres long high-speed ferry. The vessel is being built by Austal at the Australian shipbuilder\u2019s yard in the Philippines for Danish operator Molslinjen. It will feature four\u00a0W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 31\u00a0engines, recognised by Guinness World Records as being the world\u2019s most efficient …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2034,6950,1526,4437,1800,6347,1546],"class_list":["post-10638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-ferry","tag-highspeed","tag-propulsion","tag-selected","tag-solutions","tag-special","tag-wartsilas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/10639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Wartsila](\"https:\/\/cdn.offshorewind.biz\/file\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/28133304\/Wartsila-gangsets.jpg\")