Fincantieri and GE Power will develop a system of control of the emissions of the ships



The shipbuilding society Italian Fincantieri has agreed with GE Power, company of the group General Electric, the combined development of an innovative system of control of the emissions of the ships with the objective of a reduction of the pollution in the marine field.

The initiative more previews the definition of a new called solution "Shipboard Pollutant Removal System" (Shipboard PRS) functional to the discouragement of the emissions in conformities with tightening the Marpol directives on the marine pollution, norms - they have remembered the parts - that they will take effect within 2020.

The agreement previews that Fincantieri defines fundamental technical requirement in order to plan a system of control of the naval emissions, that the development of competitive producing in the perspective of a its next commercialization allows. GE Power will define the characteristics necessary for the system to the aim to guarantee the levels of demanded performances.

The new one producing, that it will serve to the control of the levels of emissions of SOx (oxides of sulfur) and particulate matter, will be developed for the cruise ships, with the possibility to be installed on all the units that use traditional fuel.

The agreement, than ago followed to a memorandum of understanding undersigned from the two societies last September, is signed by Sandro De Poli, president and managing director of GE Italy, and by Giuseppe Bono, managing director of Fincantieri.

Bono has emphasized the innovation of the understanding: "never before now, in fact - he has observed - a naval constructor had tightened a partnership for the discouragement of the emissions, with a producer of systems between the world leaders in the fields in which work. This strategy, that it has as hinge the search and the innovation to the maximum levels - it has added Bono -, will allow us to ulteriorly raise the technological crossbar to advantage of the crocieristico market, in a within, as that of the reduction of the environmental impact, so determining for our customers".

"Shipboard PRS - Sandro De Poli has explained - will be the result of the experience in the naval field of Fincantieri and that strongly specific of GE in the technologies for the reduction of the polluting emissions in multiple fields, as for example that of the generation electrical worker and steel".