MAN wins Jones Act container ship deal
Rendering of the new Pasha Hawaii container ship (Picture: Pasha Hawaii)
MAN will supply 7S80ME-GI Mk 9.5 main engines, three MAN 6L35/34DF gensets for each vessel, and Alpha FPP propeller systems. The ships are to be built at the Keppel AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas.
Doosan Engine of South Korea will build the main engines, which will meet Tier III emission requirements with exhaust gas recirculation systems. MAN’s Augsburg plant will build the auxiliary engines, also Tier III compliant, by way of selective catalytic reduction systems. The two ships, with hulls optimised using computational fluid dynamics analysis, will have a sailing speed of 23 knots and, it is claimed, will be among the world’s most hydrodynamically efficient vessels.
MAN’s Bjarne Foldager, vice president, Sales & Promotion, Two-Stroke Business, said: “With some 200 engines on order or already in service, the ME-GI’s popularity continues to grow. This is yet another order within the container segment and cements the ME-GI concept. The project shows how our customers pick up on offers of complete propulsion systems beyond just the main engine. This confirms our strategic path to develop into a system provider.”
The two vessels are due for delivery in 2020.
