Major main engine overhaul orders for Wärtsilä Dubai

Wärtsilä's new state-of-the-art workshop in Dubai, United Arab Emirates has been kept busy since it opened in the spring of 2008. A number of major projects have already been completed, including the full overhaul of 11 Wärtsilä engines supplied earlier to a utility in China. The company re-purchased the engines, which had originally been delivered to China in 1995.

The V12 46-type machines, each with an output of 10MW, had each accumulated only some 40,000 running hours, well below the design parameters for the model at the time of re-purchase. Since Wärtsilä has regular demand for reconditioned machinery, it was decided to overhaul all of them.

Overhaul and upgrade work on the complete series is being carried out in batches of two at a time. When each engine project is complete, the unit will be sold, complete with warranty and utilised for either marine or power plant applications.

Ad Bertens, managing director and vice president of Wärtsilä Services in the UAE, commented, "This new workshop facility gives us the ability to fully support our customers in the Middle East, and to provide the kind of value-added services that has become expected of Wärtsilä." Currently, some 400 people are employed in the Dubai workshop facilities. MP