Tallink Group Chooses ABB and Wärtsilä to Power New Baltic Sea Ferry

A brand new ROPAX ferry to attach Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki was commissioned final month by the Tallink Group and will probably be constructed by Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland.

Just like many different new short-sea ferries within the Baltic area, the Tallink Shuttle will run on liquefied pure fuel (LNG) and have three 12-cylinder Wärtsilä 50DF and two 6-cylinder Wärtsilä 50DF major engines powering a diesel-electric propulsion system.

Wärtsilä, the Finnish engine producer, notes the ship will even characteristic two Wärtsilä mounted pitch propellers and propeller shaft traces.

Tied into these engines will probably be a full energy and propulsion suite ABB consisting of synchronous propulsion motors and ACS600SD drives, medium voltage mills, the primary switchboard, propulsion transformers, and thruster motors.

ABB says their power administration system known as EMMA will help the ship’s crew in managing energy-related processes, practices and decision-making to in the end reduce the general power prices of the vessel.

Meyer Turku shipyard says the two,800 passenger vessel is scheduled for supply in Q1 2017 and can measure about 212 meters in size with a gross tonnage of 49,000 tons.

The ferry route, when measured in annual passenger volumes, is the some of the important within the Baltic Sea area with roughly 7.4 million passengers in 2013, says ABB. The passengers on the route between Helsinki and Tallinn characterize the overwhelming majority (over 80%) of the passenger site visitors within the Port of Tallinn.