First Wärtsilä engine passes test at new factory in China

Today a ceremony is being held to celebrate the first engine shop test at the newly built two-stroke engine factory of Hefei Rong’An Power Machinery Co Ltd (RPM), a member of the Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries Group Co Ltd (RSHI). The first engine is a 6-cylinder low-speed Wärtsilä RT-flex68-D engine with a maximum continuous power of 18,780 kW.

The engine was ordered last year and will be used to power a 2,804 TEU container vessel being built at a Brazilian shipyard for Log-In Logistica Intermodal S.A. of Brazil. Wärtsilä will provide the complete power solution for the vessel, including the auxiliary engines and controllable pitch propellers. It is due to be launched in the first quarter 2010.

RSHI and Wärtsilä signed a licence agreement in March 2008. It grants RSHI the right to produce and sell all types of Wärtsilä’s most advanced low-speed engines up to 96 cm bore. The engines are being produced at Hefei Rong’An Power Machinery Co Ltd’s new, purpose-built factory in Hefei, Anhui, China. This first engine is being delivered exactly according to the schedule outlined in the agreement.