Waertsilae's new baby has Liebherr genes

摘要

Achieving compactness without sacrificing ease of maintenance, affording higher power concentration without extra weight, raising fuel efficiency without penalising emissions performance, and ensuring robustness without detriment to load response, are challenges for engine designers, amplified in the case of machinery for marine auxiliary applications and small-ship propulsion.Addressing evolving market requirements while advancing the company's realisation of its Smart Marine vision, Wartsila unveiled a high-speed engine addition to the company's portfolio in November 2018. The Wartsila 14 type constitutes a broadening of the product range beyond the medium-speed category and into the lower regions of the power scale, below that of its current, smallestproduction engine, the Wartsila 20 series.The choice of development partner,in the shape of Liebherr, underscoresthe outward-looking disposition of theWartsila organisation. Liebherr is a diversified, international construction, lifting and mining equipment group based in Switzerland, most closely identified inthe marine field with terminal, shipboard and offshore cranes. Its high-speed engine production interests are geared mainly to the construction sector. These have been augmented by recent new model introductions, including the first outcome (a six-cylinder in-line diesel) of collaboration with Russian truck and engine manufacturer Kamaz.