{"id":11222,"date":"2021-11-05T18:16:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2021-11-05T18:54:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T23:54:25","slug":"rolls-royce-to-supply-mtu-engines-for-80-ton-bollard-pull-tugboats-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=11222","title":{"rendered":"Rolls-Royce to Supply MTU Engines for 80-ton Bollard Pull Tugboats in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rolls-Royce (LSE: <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/RR.L?p=RR.L&amp;.tsrc=fin-srch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RR.L<\/a>) has secured a significant contract to supply eight of its mtu 16V\u00a0<sub>4000<\/sub>\u00a0M6<sub>5<\/sub>L engines for four 80-ton bollard pull tugboats to be built by Detroit Brasil, Ltda. and operated by Starnav Servicos Maritimos Ltda. The new tugs will feature a hybrid propulsion system, combining the mtu engines and mtu Blue Vision New Generation (BVNG) monitoring system with Z-drive thrusters, hybrid components and controls from Schottel, a manufacturer of propulsion and steering systems for ships and offshore applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Rolls-Royce has supplied mtu Series 4000 engines to Detroit Brasil for several vessel projects in the past, this marks the first time Rolls-Royce will be supplying engines for 80-ton- bollard pull tugboats to the company and the first time that the high performance mtu 16V&nbsp;<sub>4000<\/sub>&nbsp;M6<sub>5<\/sub>L engines which deliver 2560 kW at 1,800 rpm will be used in Latin America. Once the new tugs are entered into service, Starnav Servi\u00e7os Mar\u00edtimos Ltda. will run a total of 96 mtu Series 4000 engines in their fleet of harbor tugs and offshore vessels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rolls-royce.com\/~\/media\/Images\/R\/Rolls-Royce\/content-images\/country-site\/pr-04-11-2021-content-02.jpg?h=300&amp;la=en&amp;w=480\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The mtu engines will be delivered in phases, with two delivered in August, two more in October, and two ship-sets consisting of two engines each for delivery in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolls-Royce (LSE: RR.L) has secured a significant contract to supply eight of its mtu 16V\u00a04000\u00a0M65L engines for four 80-ton bollard pull tugboats to be built by Detroit Brasil, Ltda. and operated by Starnav Servicos Maritimos Ltda. The new tugs will feature a hybrid propulsion system, combining the mtu engines and mtu Blue Vision New Generation (BVNG) monitoring system with Z-drive thrusters, hybrid components and controls from Schottel, a manufacturer of propulsion and steering systems for ships and offshore applications.<\/p>\n<p>Click the image above to read the full story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5989,9283,5637,4552,13618,8222,5992,5670,5878,7929,2203,4957,13021,10194,4059,5676,8651,8809,13831,13579,13156,10169,6711,10176,1397,10195,10171,868],"tags":[14845,11767,914,11254,4251,2489,14847,926,184,3977,988,14855,4512,3555,6684,430,5604,401,3739,828,1757,1182,1074,2281,3737,14853,14846,765,14852,9970,2431,718,412,5754,4438,3383,7928,2504,120,2505,14857,14851,1556,1850,14849,14850,14858,101,3181,1177,10251,1691,1658,14848,14854,949,14856],"class_list":["post-11222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boating-news","category-brazil-news","category-business-news","category-cargo-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-environmental-news","category-european-news","category-finance-news","category-global-politics","category-great-britain","category-green","category-green-energy-news","category-international-news","category-joint-venture-news","category-latin-america-news","category-manufacturing-assembly-news","category-marine-ocean-news","category-maritime","category-news","category-shipping-news","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","tag-16v","tag-11767","tag-america","tag-applications","tag-better","tag-blue","tag-bollard","tag-brasil","tag-brazil","tag-built","tag-business","tag-bvng","tag-communications","tag-components","tag-consumption","tag-contract","tag-controls","tag-detroit","tag-emissions","tag-engines","tag-fuel","tag-generation","tag-hybrid","tag-latin","tag-lower","tag-ltda","tag-m65l","tag-manufacturer","tag-maritimos","tag-monitoring","tag-mtu","tag-new","tag-news","tag-offshore","tag-operated","tag-propulsion","tag-pull","tag-rolls","tag-rolls-royce","tag-royce","tag-schottel","tag-servicos","tag-shipping","tag-ships","tag-shipyards","tag-starnav","tag-steering","tag-stock","tag-supply","tag-system","tag-thrusters","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-tugboats","tag-tugs","tag-vision","tag-z-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11224,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions\/11224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}