Rolls-Royce breaks into Chinese marine market

Jianglong Shipyard is China’s leading designer and manufacturer of aluminium hull high speed vessels, a key market for MTU products. Aulong Shipyard is a joint venture of Austal and Jianglong and VPower Group is a leading system integrator in the power generation sector and distributor for MTU products in China. The new strategic partnership will focus on MTU Series 2000 and 4000 engines.

Tobias Ostermaier, president Greater China at Rolls-Royce Power Systems, said that China was the company’s most important growth market. “In recent years, we have turned into a provider of integrated solutions for Chinese business partners,” he said.

“We have formed multiple joint ventures and established a customer care centre as well as a tech centre in-country to be closer to customers and better satisfy their needs,” he added.

Rolls-Royce Power Systems has also signed agreements for the delivery of a record number of MTU products as well as two strategic partnership agreements.

These agreements are part of new purchasing framework agreements with the power generation companies Cooltech, Tellhow, Pauway, UNPower and SUMEC. For the first time at CIIE, Rolls-Royce also signed agreements for the mining application with a procurement framework agreement with Inner Mongolia North Hauler Joint Stock Co. CRRC DATONG Co. also placed an order for one MTU engine for use in a mining dump truck.