Siemens' shoreside breakthrough

摘要

Siemens Energy is installing a shoreside power system on behalf of the Luebeck municipal utilities on the Nordland dock. The system will provide ships with electrical power via the local medium voltage system while they are berthed in port. The first customer for the shoreside power system is Finnish shipping line Transatlantik. The shipping company has already had the port of Kemi in northern Finland equipped with a system of this type. From June 2008, the three ferries Transpaper, Transpulp and Transtimber are being supplied with electrical power from the shore-based supply at the destination ports of Kemi and Luebeck. The Transatlantik ships, with their 400-V/50-Hz onboard systems, have already been retrofitted for the Finnish shoreside power system and have a cable drum with plug-in connector, a control system for the coupling process and a transformer on board.