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MAN Rollo cleans up the ship with

environmentally friendly LNG engines

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AN Rollo, which has been supplying diesel and gas standards. The Helgoland is the irst new ship in Germany that
engines to the marine and industrial sectors for uses LNG as a fuel and as a result soot particles are largely

over 100 years, is now active in solutions that useeliminated and NOx and CO emissions signiicantly reduced.
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LNG (liquid natural gas) as fuel in marine applications and “Our generator sets serve as auxiliary generators and can
has developed three 480ekW gas generator sets for the also be used as boost power for the main propulsion system,”

environmentally friendly ferry Helgoland which was recently said MAN Rollo Sales Manager Karel Schuurman.
taken into service.“We have used the new factory-developed MAN E3262

The Netherlands-based company also supplies standard LE222 gas engines for the sets, which are perfectly in line
engine parts, ilters, iltration systems and tools for diesel and with the environmental objectives of the client. They were

gas engines and almost all the parts are available all over Europe developed on the basis of the lean-burn combustion process
within 24 hours, thanks to its wide-ranging stock and direct and are 100% gas-powered. The generator sets are also fully

lines with MAN in Germany. It acts as a representative for such compliant with the requirements of the classiication society
brands as MAN, Hengst and Parker and provides services in the DNV-GL.”

areas of installation, maintenance, overhaul and repair.The Helgoland has been operating smoothly and error-free

MAN Rollo supplied the gas generator sets to the Fassmer since the christening of the ship.
shipyard in Berne, Germany where the Helgoland ferry was “The customer is especially pleased with the load response

built for shipping company Cassen Eils. The ferry providesof our engines,” said Mr Schuurman.
a year-round service between the northern German city of “We have the people, resources, knowledge and experience

Cuxhaven and the island of Helgoland in the North Sea.to play a leading role in the LNG market for marine engines
The 79-metre-long ferry can accommodate 1,000 and maritime applications. This irst success motivates us to

passengers and is entirely built to Blue Angel environmentalbecome even more active in this growing market.” u

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