Finnish shipbuilding company Wärtsilä announced that it has been contracted to supply the engines and exhaust gas cleaning systems for a new 104 metres long exploration cruise vessel. There are options for an additional nine vessels.
As the company announced, the ship will be built at the China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu) Co shipyard in China for Sunstone Ships Inc of Miami, USA.
The contract with Wärtsilä was placed by Ulstein Design and Solutions of Norway, the company responsible for delivering the design and equipment package to the yard.
The order was sealed in June 2017.
Namely, Wärtsilä will supply two 6-cylinder Wärtsilä 20 engines fitted with the Wärtsilä NOR (NOx Reducer) exhaust gas cleaning system, and two 8-cylinder Wärtsilä 20 engines.
The Wärtsilä NOR is based on SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) technology. The system complies with various NOx (Nitrogen Oxides) emission reduction needs, such as the IMO Tier III rules.
The Wärtsilä equipment will be delivered to the yard in January 2018 with the ship beginning operations in September of 2019.
