Wärtsilä Delivers Marine Scrubber To Containerships Ltd
Wärtsilä, has signed a turnkey contract with Finnish door-to-door shortsea carrier Containerships Ltd Oy of Finland. The agreement covers retrofitting of a Wärtsilä fresh water scrubber for the vessel Containerships VII, which is equipped with a Wärtsilä W7L64 main engine. This is Wärtsilä’s first commercial marine scrubber project for a main engine. The scrubber will be delivered in August 2011.
Containerships Ltd Oy is providing key industrial and retail customers with regular container transport solutions between Finland, Russia, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the Baltic States, Western Europe, the UK and the Mediterranean. Containerships employ 600 staff in 21 countries and currently operate with 14 ships and 13.000 containers. With a fleet of 45ft high cube pallet wide containers offering similar intake as road trailers (33 euro pallets) Containerships has been a successful and environmental friendly alternative to road transportation.
Attractive Means
Scrubbing is an attractive means of meeting the increasingly stringent International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and EU regulations. Scrubbers efficiently reduce exhaust gas emissions such a sulphur oxides and particulates, and slightly also nitrogen oxides. The conversion will enable the vessel to meet future sulphur oxides (SOx) emission requirements in Sulphur Emission Control Areas. “The Wärtsilä fresh water scrubber technology will meet both environmental and commercial requirements for our operations. We see it as a clear advantage that Wärtsilä, with its long experience in emissions abatement technology, delivers the scrubber solution,” says Sigurjon Markusson, CEO, Containership Ltd Oy.
Experience
Wärtsilä has extensive experience in developing and delivering scrubbers for stationary diesel power plants, and offers a wide range of solutions for emissions reduction. The Wärtsilä scrubber is a fully integrated design that aims to achieve optimal lifecycle efficiency, with outstanding performance and cost effective operation. The system complies with the new IMO guidelines for cleaning the exhaust emissions from all 2- and 4-stroke engines and oil-fired boilers.
First
The installation of scrubbers is a major step in the introduction of exhaust gas cleaning technology for maritime applications. The Wärtsilä scrubber will enable the vessel to meet future emission requirements in Sulphur Emission Control Areas (SECA) in an economical way. Wärtsilä is the first manufacturer to have been awarded the IMO certificate by the classification societies Det Norske Veritas and Germanischer Lloyd. Wärtsilä aims to strengthen its position as a major supplier of scrubbers and other exhaust gas cleaning technology for maritime applications.