On July 25, Chengxi Shipyard, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), and CSSC Power (Group) Corporation Ltd. (CPGC) successfully signed a strategic procurement agreement on bulk main engines, main generators and environmental protection equipments for 80,000 DWT bulk carriers and 50,000 DWT oil tankers.
The signed agreement includes the main engines, main generator sets, desulfurization and other environmental protection equipments for 80,000 DWT bulk carriers and 50,000 DWT oil tankers, which are hand held by CSSC Chengxi Shipyard as well as those which are about to be ordered, totaling 59 ship sets with a record number of signing and a total signing amount of more than 2 billion yuan ( $270 million).
In addition to the conventional high-pressure denitrification SCR engines, several methanol dual-fuel engines play an important role in improving the comprehensive energy efficiency index of the ship and the carbon intensity index of ship operation, which is an important strategic measure for CSSC Chengxi Shipyard to lay out the green shipbuilding, and marks that the company’s shipbuilding has entered into a new era of low-carbon, zero-carbon and green shipbuilding.
This signing of the purchase agreement for the bulk main engines, generator sets and environmental protection core equipments is an important milestone in the course of CSSC Chengxi Shipyard’s development, which provides a solid guarantee for the company’s shipbuilding, and marks a key step forward in shipbuilding, successfully realizing the resource reserve of the core equipments of the shipbuilding and laying a solid foundation for the timely commencement of the construction of the ships as well as the timely delivery of the ships.
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