Marine Propulsion & Auxiliary Machinery

Growing market for Rolls-Royce gas engines

Taken from: Marine Propulsion & Auxiliary Machinery August/September 2012


Some 35 Rolls-Royce Bergen medium speed marine gas engines had been sold by April, with installations in service or on order for ferries, roro vessels, tankers, coastguard tonnage and offshore support vessels. A cumulative running time of over 20 million hours had been logged by these units and around 500 gas engines in land-based applications. Excellent experience with LNG-fuelled Rolls-Royce engines in five double-ended ferries connecting main road routes on the west coast of Norway led to th....

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