Wärtsilä will provide the methanol-fueled auxiliary engines for 5 new container vessels for COSCO Shipping Lines and 7 new container vessels for Orient Overseas Container Line.
Each vessel will function with three 8-cylinder and two 6-cylinder Wärtsilä 32M engines. This is the Chinese maritime sector’s largest order up to now for methanol-fueled newbuild vessels. The order was booked by Wärtsilä in December 2023.
To complement the answer, the ships will likely be geared up with the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) exhaust cleansing techniques and alternators. These will likely be provided via Wärtsilä’s three way partnership firm, CWEC (Shanghai) Company.
The Wärtsilä 32M methanol-fueled engine has acquired sort approval certificates from a number of classification societies world wide.
The Orient Overseas Container Line’s 24,000 TEU ships are to be constructed on the Nantong COSCO KHI Ship Engineering yard, and the COSCO Shipping Lines’ 24,000 TEU ships on the Dalian COSCO KHI Ship Engineering yard. The vessels are anticipated to start business operations in 2026.
