WE Tech has released a statement claiming that it has received an order from Finnish ship owner, ESL Shipping, to provide its direct-drive permanent magnet shaft generator solution for two LNG-fuelled handysize bulk carriers. There is also an option to provide the solution for two additional vessels.
The two new 25 600 DWT vessels are owned by ESL Shipping and constructed at Qingshan Shipyard of Sinotrans & CSC SBICO in China. The delivery of the direct-drive permanent magnet shaft generators is scheduled for March 2017.
The vessels will commence operations in the Baltic Sea in early 2018.
WE Tech has received an order to deliver its direct-drive permanent magnet shaft generator solution to two new 25 600 DWT dual-fuelled handysize bulk carriers.
DNV GL has announced that ESL Shipping’s new dual-fuelled bulk carriers – which will be the first large LNG-fuelled bulkers – will be the first to be built to DNV GL’s new rules.