Wärtsilä has signed a joint project undertaking with Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) to develop a preliminary production-level design for a 127,000DWT shuttle tanker.
The objective of the agreement is to create a shuttle tanker design that may be built with DNV-GL classification by the subsidiary of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation.
Wärtsilä Marine Solutions' Sales Vice-President Aaron Bresnahan said generating a high-level design concept with a dynamic positioning (DP) system was necessary to respond successfully to future market demands.
Wärtsilä will provide technical design support, such as developing an optimised propulsion and thruster solution, and machinery with a high-level electric configuration for the vessel's DP control system.
