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Rolls-Royce will supply to Fincantieri arranges of propulsion and machinery of covered for five cruise ships
They will be installed on units ordered by Viking Ocean Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Princess Cruises
September 27, 2016
Rolls-Royce has announced today an agreement in order to supply systems of propulsion and machinery of covered for five cruise ships that will be constructed by Fincantieri in the plants of Monfalcone and Ancona.
The orders regard Promas systems, machinery of covered and wheel house for two ships commissioned by Viking Ocean Cruises. The contract comprises also machinery of covered and wheel house for a ship under construction for Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Rolls-Royce wheel house for two ships for Princess Cruises.
The Rolls-Royce group has remembered that own integral Promas system the propeller, the fairing hub cap, the bulb of the rudder and the same rudder in an only hydrodynamic unit that can improve the propulsive efficiency from the 3 to 8% for ships monopropeller and from the 2 to 6% for ships twin-screw, allowing also an improvement of the maneuverability and the reduction of the fuel burnups and the emissions. Moreover the modular range of winches and salpancore affords to compose efficient and competitive systems made-to-measure, using a range of members standard for winches, salpancore and bells of tonneggio in order adapting themselves to the layout and requirement of the bridge of the ship and returning the installation moreover simpler.
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