Hitachi Zosen Diesel & Engineering Co Ltd celebrated the completion of its first Wärtsilä RT-flex common-rail marine diesel engine at its Ariake Machinery Works in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.
The new engine was presented and demonstrated to an invited audience from shipowners, shipbuilders, classification societies, and other interested parties. Hitachi is the eleventh engine builder in the Wärtsilä family of engine licensees to manufacture Wärtsilä RT-flex electronically-controlled common-rail marine engines. The other engine builders are in South Korea, Japan, China, Italy, Croatia and Poland. This additional manufacturing capacity from Hitachi enables Wärtsilä to serve the steadily and strongly growing world-wide demand for the popular RT-flex engine type. The 6-cylinder Wärtsilä RT-flex50-B engine built by Hitachi will be delivered to Nanjing Wujiazui Shipbuilding Co Ltd in China. There it will be installed in a 1085 TEU container ship being built for a German owner. The engine has a maximum continuous power of 9960 kW (13,560 bhp) at 124 rpm. Hitachi has orders for a total of 26 RT-flex50 engines from shipyards in China and Brazil, including the engine demonstrated. The first RT-flx50 engine entered service in January 2006. The engine type has been very successful in the market with more than 200 engines already sold. They are being installed in ships contracted in China, Brazil, Bulgaria, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Argentina, and Vietnam.
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