Wärtsilä wins Great Lakes contract
Wärtsilä Wärtsilä is providing a package of equipment and support for the new shipsCanada’s Algoma Central Corporation has chosen Wärtsilä to supply complete propulsion systems with integrated air pollution control devices or scrubbers for six Great Lakes vessels.
These are the first integrated scrubbers Wärtsilä has supplied and Ontario-based Algoma has an option on another two.
Algoma owns Canada’s largest domestic fleet of vessels operating on the Great Lakes - St Lawrence Waterway. The six new vessels will be used to transport bulk commodities.
They will be built in China and the first vessel is scheduled to be delivered during the first half of 2013.
Wärtsilä is also providing engineering support, highly fuel efficient engines, propulsion machinery and a bilge water system for these vessels.
An integrated scrubber saves space and weight. The integrated scrubbers are designed to clean the exhaust gases of the vessels’ main and auxiliary engines as well as the oil-fired boiler, enabling them to comply with current and forthcoming environmental regulations.
— These are truly important vessels as they will set new standards for environmentally sustainable shipping on the Great Lakes and for cargo vessels in general, says Juhani Hupli, Vice President, Ship Power Technology at Wärtsilä Ship Power.
The Wärtsilä scrubber concept works with fresh water in a closed-loop system in which sulphur oxides are neutralised with caustic soda. In so-called zero discharge mode, the clean effluents are led to a holding tank for discharge. Contaminants are always disposed of at reception facilities in port.
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