Chinese ferry company opts for MAN engines

The four-stroke engines will be built at MAN Diesel’s production centre in Augsburg, Germany, and will operate at 750 rpm, providing a total of 16 MW of installed power for the 2,300 passenger, 2,500 lane metres RoPax vessels.

The ferries will be built at Huanghai Shipbuilding in RongCheng City, Shandong Province, and the order includes an option for two further vessels.

Bohai Ferry has also ordered twin-screw, controllable pitch propeller (CPP) propulsion systems from Alpha, suitable for ice class B. In addition, the MAN Diesel scope of supply includes two single-stage reduction gearboxes from Renk for each vessel. Delivery of the propulsion systems is expected to take place in the first half of 2011.

Bohai Ferry is a major passenger-liner transportation company in Bohai Bay, north-eastern China. It deals mainly with passenger transportation on the Yantai-Dalian and Penglai-Dalian sea routes where the company already operates several large passenger ships.