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Diesel MAN & Turbo will supply the main engines of the 11 new portacontainer from 23.000 teu of the MSC
The propulsive apparatuses will be constructed in Korea where they are under realization the ships
April 18, 2018
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has ordered to Diesel German MAN & Turbo the supply of the main engines of the eleven portacontainer of the unitary ability to about 23.000 teu that at the end last summer the shipowning group has ordered to the South Korean ship yards Samsung Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipping Marine Engineering, with first that of it six will construct and second five.
The store clerk is relative to 11 engines MAN B&W 11G95ME-C9.5 that will be installed on the 11 ships whose delivery will finish on March 15, 2020. The six destined engines to the portacontenitori constructed from Samsung will be realized by the Hyundai Heavy Industries South Korean and the five destined ones to the ships constructed from the DSME will be realized by the Doosan Engine South Korean.
"This order - it has emphasized the vice president Sales & Promotion, Two-Stroke Business of Diesel MAN & Turbo, Bjarne Foldager - evidences the positive and long-lasting commercial relations between Diesel MSC and MAN & Turbo. This is a meaningful order that consolidates our important position in the segment of the large ones portacontainer, market in which the engine of type G it is the favorite one".
The German company has specified that currently it has in course orders for the supply of 71 engines of the G95 type, of which 23 already are delivered and enter in service.
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