Super long-stroke in big boxship debut

摘要

As bunker prices have ballooned, containership owners have cut operating speeds in search of fuel cost savings. Now, in a development that suggests there is an acceptance among owners of larger vessels at the top table that high bunker prices are a permanent fixture of the industry, A.P. Moller-Maersk has specified MAN B&W 6S80ME-C9 two-stroke engines on a series of 18 x 4500TEU capacity containerships to be delivered by South Korean yards. These ships are intended for service in the strongly growing, sub-Saharan, African market.