MAN helping Chinese shipping companies to reduce emissions
November 29, 2012 Category Logistics, Ports & sea transport
MAN Diesel & Turbo, world market leader for large diesel engines used in ships and power stations, is playing an important role in the efforts of Chinese shipping companies to meet new global standards to reduce emissions and increase efficiency. “About 75% or more of Chinese ships are equipped with main engines from MAN,” said Stephan Timmermann, Executive Board Member of MAN Diesel & Turbo, responsible for marine systems and after sales services. Hou Liping, Chief Engineer and Deputy Managing Director at Cosco Container Lines Co, said the subsidiary of Cosco Group “now has 106 vessels, 99 of them equipped with MAN main engines. Only seven use different engine brands in our entire fleet.” The cooperation between Cosco and MAN can be traced back to 1964. “As one of the world’s leading manufacturers of large-bore diesel engines and one of the three leading suppliers of turbo machinery, a central concern of MAN is protection of the environment,” Timmermann said. Every year both MAN and Cosco issue a sustainability report in which the two industry leaders report their performance on corporate responsibility. “Cosco being our biggest customer in China, we have to offer our technical expertise so they can become more environmentally friendly,” Timmerman said. Hou said Cosco had retrofitted old vessels with slide fuel valves and Alpha Lubricators from MAN PrimeServ in the last few years. “With these green technologies, we have great performance in energy conservation and emission reduction,” he said. Many vessels now run at slower speeds to lower emissions and save costs. Hou said “most vessels worked at 22 or 23 knots before, but now we have reduced the speed to only 17 or 18 knots or even lower”. “A 10,000 twenty foot equivalent unit container vessel consumes around 240 tons of fuel a day at design speed. So if you run at 19 knots, that’s 160 tons per day – you can see the big difference,” Hou said. Of MAN’s total revenues, about 20% was generated in China, its single biggest market. MAN plans to set up a new logistics center in Shanghai’s Lingang area, the China Daily reports.
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