Wärtsilä engines order

Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading solutions provider, will supply the main engines for the first series of eight 'Bangkok-max' container ships . thus establishing these engines as the standard for this type of vesse.

This supply includes eight Wärtsilä RT-flex60C main engines, which will be built by a Wärtsilä licensee, Hudong Heavy Machinery  in Shanghai. The Wärtsilä RT-flex engine technology offers excellent fuel consumption, exceptional reliability, and the possibility to incorporate environmental upgrades at a later date.

Four of the ships are being built for Buss Shipping, part of Buss Group from Hamburg, which is well known for its port operations in Northern Europe and for its Container Financing by Buss Capital. The other four ships are for Eastern Mediterranean Maritime Limited, a ship management company with its head offices in Athens, Greece The machinery for the first of these 1700 TEU container vessels is scheduled to be delivered in 2012.