Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply its exhaust gas cleaning system for a new Korean ferry, currently being built for Weidong Ferry, at the Hyundai Mipo Dockyard. This is the first Wärtsilä scrubber system to be installed where the shipyard, the owners, and the vessel’s operational area are all in Korea.
Wärtsilä will supply a system consisting of two 13 MW Open Loop V-SOx Scrubbers specifically optimised for the new vessel. The contract with Wärtsilä was booked in January 2017 and the delivery of the equipment is scheduled for July of this year.
“Exhaust gas cleaning is something that ship owners and operators around the world are having to take very seriously, since the IMO’s global cap on the sulphur content in marine fuel comes into effect in 2020, which is really rather soon” says Sigurd Jenssen, Director, Exhaust Gas Cleaning, Wärtsilä Marine Solutions.
The 31,000 gross tonnage RoPax ferry will be operated by Weidong Ferry and will sail between Korea and China.
