Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has signed a 10-year service partnership agreement with the Swiss company Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD), a developer of two-stroke low-speed gas and diesel engines used for propulsion power in merchant shipping.
According to the agreement Wärtsilä will be an authorized global service provider for all WinGD products and will provide WinGD and its customers access to Wärtsilä’s worldwide service network and comprehensive services offering.
The agreement includes services conducted for two-stroke engines delivered under Wärtsilä, Sulzer and WinGD brands.
The agreement will also make Wärtsilä’s integrated lifecycle solutions available to all WinGD-powered vessels, including the development of new digital solutions for performance management, ship management, and energy efficiency optimisation.
“The agreement supports the promotion of new digital solutions for performance management and ship management. Especially digital solutions that optimise the energy efficiency of two-stroke engines are of great interest to customers in merchant shipping,” noted Ole Pyndt Hansen, Director, Wärtsilä 2-Stroke Engine Services, Wärtsilä Services.
