Rolls-Royce and Goa Shipyard to build MTU engines in India
Rolls-Royce and GSL will cooperate in the local manufacturing of MTU Series 8000 engines in India. Shekhar Mital, chairman and managing director of GSL (left), and Praveen Mohan, director and CEO of MTU India, signed the agreement at the trade show Defexpo in Chennai.
The contract will mean that MTU diesel engines in the power range of 7 to10 MW will be built at GSL. The agreement includes transfer of the Rolls-Royce subsidiary’s technology relating to the local sourcing of engine components, assembly, testing, painting and major overhauls. The contract is part of Rolls-Royce’s commitment to 'Make in India'.
MTU Series 8000 engines are installed on all offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) either recently built or currently under construction in India. These include eleven OPVs at GSL, five naval OPVs being built at Reliance Defence Engineering and seven OPVs under construction at L&T Shipbuilding for the country’s Coast Guard.
In addition to naval applications, the engines are also well suited to ferry and yacht applications and have clocked up a total of more than one million operating hours. Benefits include low operating costs, high power density and good environmental performance. Common rail fuel injection combined with an electronic engine control system give low emissions and fuel consumption levels of less than 200 g/kWh.
