Wärtsilä wins main engines order for new type...

Wärtsilä Corporation, Trade and Technical Press release, 8 August 2011

The Wärtsilä RT-flex engine technology offers excellent fuel consumption,
exceptional reliability, and the possibility to incorporate environmental
upgrades at a later date. All were important in meeting the needs of the new
Bangkok-max container vessels.

Wärtsilä, the marine industry's leading solutions provider, will supply the main
engines for the first series of eight 'Bangkok-max' container ships being built
at the Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard in China, thus establishing these engines as
the standard for this type of vessel. The ships will serve as feeder vessels in
Asian waters.

Wärtsilä received the order in June. The scope of supply includes eight Wärtsilä
RT-flex60C main engines, which will be built by a Wärtsilä licensee, Hudong
Heavy Machinery (HHM), based in Shanghai. In meeting the needs of the new
Bangkok-max container vessel design, the Wärtsilä RT-flex engine technology
offers excellent fuel consumption, exceptional reliability, and the possibility
to incorporate environmental upgrades at a later date. Furthermore, the compact
size of the engine is ideal for the narrow engine room that the vessel design
calls for.

"We are proud to set the standard for these Bangkok-max design container vessel
engines. The benefits of the Wärtsilä RT-flex engines are well known to the
Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard, and they are clearly the right solution for this
design. We very much appreciate the excellent co-operation with our licensee HHM
and their having secured this valuable order," says Lars Anderson, Vice
President, Merchant, Wärtsilä Ship Power.

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, with the remainder being delivered
at regular intervals thereafter.

"We selected the electronically controlled Wärtsilä engine because the
flexibility in the matching of the engines' specific consumption with the
vessels demands was very important to us. Thanks to the optimized specific
consumption, we are able to offer an environmental friendly, low fuel consuming
vessel, which gives also many benefits to charterers," says Carsten Meyer, Fleet
Manager of Reederei Gebrüder Winter, the technical advisor for Buss Shipping in
this project.

"Electronic engines have been selected by our company in order to better meet
the environmental requirements with high flexibility and efficiency throughout
the entire engine load range and vessel speed," says Stefanos Tsonakis,
Technical Manager, Eastern Mediterranean Maritime Ltd.

HHM has been a Wärtsilä licensee since 1995. It is a member of China State
Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) and is the biggest engine manufacturer in China,
focusing on engines with bore sizes between 48 and 70 cm.




Link: Wärtsilä RT-flex60C

For further information, please contact:

Matthias Becker
General Manager, Wärtsilä Ship Power
Wärtsilä Deutschland GmbH,
[e-mail]
Tel. [phone]

Mirja-Maija Santala
Media Manager
Wärtsilä Corporation
Tel. [phone]
[e-mail]


Wärtsilä in brief
Wärtsilä is a global leader in complete lifecycle power solutions for the marine
and energy markets. By emphasising technological innovation and total
efficiency, Wärtsilä maximises the environmental and economic performance of the
vessels and power plants of its customers.
In 2010, Wärtsilä's net sales totalled EUR 4.6 billion with more than 17,500
employees. The company has operations in 160 locations in 70 countries around
the world. Wärtsilä is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki, Finland.
www.wartsila.com







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