Die großen Schiffe kommen wieder! Einige von Ihnen werden in Nordeuropa, in Finnland, gebaut. Finnisches
Know-how wird weltweit geschätzt, und finnische Eisbrecher gelten beispielsweise als die besten der
Welt. Dieses Jahr gibt es überraschenderweise kein Eis und keine Arbeit für die Eisbrecher im finnischen Meerbusen. So werden die Eisbrecher zurzeit stattdessen für Kreuzfahrten eingesetzt! Im finnischen Pavillon
werden Sie einige der besten finnischen und internationalen Experten für Kreuzfahrtprodukte treffen.

Der finnische Schiffbau entstand nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, als Finnland 6 Jahre lang Reparationen an Russland liefern musste: neue Schiffe im Wert von 60 Millionen Dollar, Papiererzeugnisse im Wert von 59 Millionen Dollar, Holzprodukte im Wert von 41 Millionen Dollar, Kabelerzeugnisse (die später unter der Marke „Nokia“ bekannt wurden) im Wert von 25 Millionen Dollar, Schiffe der vorhandenen Handelsflotte im Wert von 13 Millionen Dollar und sonstige Ausrüstungen im Wert von 100 Millionen Dollar. All dies stellte sich im Nachhinein als Segen heraus, weil so die berühmte Schiffbaubranche Finnlands entstand.

Viele moderne Eisbrecher und Kreuzfahrtschiffe werden heute in Finnland gebaut. Der finnische Pavillon auf der Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention Seatrade Convention gibt dem Besucher einen guten Eindruck, wo Finnland heute steht. Die finnischen Unternehmen arbeiten weltweit und genießen weltweit einen guten Ruf wegen ihrer guten Qualität, Verlässlichkeit und ausgezeichneten Kommunikation.

Presse-Ansprechpartner für die Seatrade Cruise Shipping

Auf der diesjährigen Ausstellung sind folgende Unternehmen vertreten: Deltamarin Group, Halton Marine, Marioff, Onboard-Napa Ltd, Ensto Oy, SeaKing, SF-Control Oy, Jukova Oy. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter www.inspressclub.com. Klicken Sie dazu auf den Buchstaben „S“ und suchen Sie dann den Eintrag „Seatrade Cruise Shipping“.


Pressekontakte:

Salla Paloneva
Sales Manager
Messua Oy
Vesijärvenkatu 74 B
FI-15140 Lahti

Mobil: +358-50-401 7455
Direkt: +358-3-357 7556
Fax: +358-3-734 6606
E-Mail: salla.paloneva@messua.fi


Welcome to the Deltamarin Group, booth 1601.

Deltamarin provides contract management, engineering and consulting services for the entire lifecycle from feasibility studies up to complete engineering packages, construction management and technical operation support. Full range of skills covering all areas from naval architecture to structural and mechanical engineering, electrical and instrumentation design as well as planning and procurement. Services provided are always tailored to the needs of the customers.
To offer wider service a Joint Venture V.Delta has been established with V.Ships, Monaco, as a one-stop shop for vessel lifecycle support and conversions. Safety and performance are widely addressed by the Alliance of Deltamarin and Safety at Sea, Glasgow. Focused training courses are offered for shipping companies in vessel operation, especially in fuel efficiency.



Welcome aboard with Halton Marine, booth 1601.

Halton specializes in indoor climate products and solutions. Halton Marine, one of the world's leading suppliers of marine HVAC, develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality ventilation solutions for demanding marine, navy and oil&gas markets. Halton Marine concentrates in providing a safe, healthy, comfortable, productive and energy-efficient indoor air environment for people to work and stay in. Halton Marine offers latest technology in cabin ventilation, most efficient grease filtration technology in galley ventilation, reliability in fire safety products as well as air distribution and airflow manangement products. Halton operates today in 19 countries around the world. The company has production facilities in Canada, China, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Malaysia, Norway, United Kingdom and USA.



Welcome to look at the Marioff fire protection systems, booth 1601.

The Marioff fire protection system HI-FOG is an innovative fire protection technology utilising high pressure to produce a fine water mist. HI-FOG combines the extinguishing characteristics of water with the penetrative qualities of gases without any safety hazards for personnel or the environment. HI-FOG is the world's leading water mist fire protection technology, originally developed by Marioff Corporation for use on passenger ships, and now protecting an increasing range of land-based applications.



Welcome to Onboard-Napa Ltd, booth 1601.

Onboard-Napa Ltd is an independent software house supplying high-end software systems for operation of ships. The company has been in the forefront of software development for decades, setting new standards for ship board applications.

Onboard-Napa’s core competencies are based on in-depth understanding of 3D product modeling. With this technology, Onboard-Napa has achieved the market leader position in supplying sophisticated and user-friendly stability and damage stability software for various types of ships. Additionally decision support for flooding control (DFC) and fuel consumption optimizing systems (NAPA SPS) have been accepted as a standard in the safe and economical ship operation during last years. As a new product, Onboard-Napa is now bringing forward electronic logbook (NAPA Log) to replace the traditional logbooks in ship operation. Also, advanced onboard flooding simulation has been developed to meet the customer expectations in decision support.



Welcome to Ensto Oy, booth 1601.

Ensto is an international industrial group founded in 1958 and specializing in the development, manufacture and marketing of electrical systems and supplies. Ensto’s turnover is approximately EUR 210 million, and it is part of EM Group which is a Finnish family business.
Our systems and supplies are essential both to the distribution of electrical power and everyday electrical applications. They are present in domestic electrical installations, public premises and businesses, lighting solutions and various high-tech control and monitoring systems.

For ship building industry Ensto manufacture prefabricated installation systems for cabins, restaurants, casinos and common areas.



Welcome to SeaKing, booth 1601.

SeaKing is the leading and independent provider of functional catering systems and stainless steel food service equipment for cruise liners and other premium class passenger vessels. SeaKing's experience includes the design, fabrication, project management, installation, renovation and repair of galleys and food and beverage equipment. Knowledge and experience with United States Public Health Services and the National Sanitation Foundation enables SeaKing to provide equipment in compliance with all standards and guidelines as set forth by these organizations.

Custom s/s equipment includes waiter stations, sneeze guards, pallets, racks, neutral counters, prep tables, ware-wash tables, sinks, cleaning lockers, fire lockers and hoods. Custom refrigeration equipment include refrigerators (any size or configuration), refrigerated counters, buffet counters, sandwich, pizza counters, sushi-bar counters and cocktail stations.

SeaKing Inc maintains full facilities and skills to perform and manage turnkey, refit or refurbishment projects whether it be in dry-dock, wet-dock or sailing with the vessel. SeaKing also provides consultation and installation supervision services.



Welcome to SF-Control, booth 1601.

Since 1987 SF-Control Oy has always had a strong focus on safety when developing LevelDatic™ remote tank level gauging, water ingress detection and draft measuring systems. LevelDatic systems are designed to provide accurate and reliable continuous on-line information on tank levels, water ingress and ship's drafts for the officers to make the right and best decisions in everyday operations as well as in possible emergency situations.

More than 1,800 LevelDatic systems have been delivered to ships and offshore structures of all types and sizes. Cruise vessels, passenger and car ferries, ro-pax, ro-ro, LNG/LPG carriers, chemical/product tankers, VLCCs, ULCCs, FPSOs, bulk carriers, container vessels, car carriers, icebreakers, navy ships, supply vessels, tugs, semi-submersibles etc. have been fitted with LevelDatic.

LevelDatic is equally suitable for newbuildings and retrofit installations replacing failed systems by other makers. Complete retrofit installations have been carried out as turn-keys while the ships have been sailing making money for their owners.



Welkome to Jukova, booth 1601.

Finnish Jukova Oy is one of the leading system suppliers for the passenger transport industry. The company, which started in 1958 as a family business manufacturing fittings and faucets, has today around 120 employees and exports a wide range of products to several countries in Europe.

Jukova’s maritime products are all collected under a single product line, Meridian. The products include for example balcony systems, windshields and cabin beds. Although the brand is new, the products of the Meridian line are well known for their quality and user-friendliness. Meridian products include complete ready-to-fit units, which are easy and quick to install on site.

Close co-operation with the customer is essential for a company like Jukova. Every customer has individual needs and the products must be tailored to suit these needs. In projects where large system deliveries are involved, Jukova takes on the overall responsibility from the early steps of design to mounting the finished product in place. The company has an efficient in-house design department and the staff can provide support in the assembly of systems.



Welcome to meet Wärtsilä at the Seatrade Cruise Shipping exhibition in Miami, March 12-15., stand No. 1601.


The commitment to environmentally-friendly cruising is indicative from the array of products that Wärtsilä continues to develop to make for a greener marine environment.

The scope of Wärtsilä’s environmentally-efficient solutions for the cruise ship sector is extensive with products ranging from the award-winning common rail fuel injection engine and the Wetpac humidification system to high-efficiency rudders and nozzles and NOx reducing Selective Catalytic Reductions (SCR).

However, a new product is set to join the suite of cruiseship-friendly products after Wärtsilä earlier this year launched a development programme to produce a test scrubbing plant for removing sulphur oxides (SOx) from the exhaust gases of marine diesel engines and oil-fired boilers.

The objective of the project is to study the equipment’s performance in realistic applications, to identify any difficulties in utilising such scrubbing equipment onboard and to design complete exhaust gas cleaning system compliant to IMO requirements and other regulations.

SOx emissions have become a practical problem for cruise ship owners and operators as regulations to control them have come into force under the MARPOL Convention (Annex VI) and from the European Union. The US also has stringent emissions legislation in place. But there are currently no modifications that can be made to diesel engines or boilers to reduce these emissions and the only ways to reduce them is either to burn fuels with lower sulphur content or to treat the engine exhaust gases. The development will allow cruise ships to burn conventional fuels but without emitting the level of SOx emissions associated with high sulphur fuels.

Wetpac for NOx
For NOx emissions, Wärtsilä has developed what it designates the Wetpac humidification system. The principle of this technology is to introduce pressurized water into the combustion process in a bid to reduce the formation of nitrogen oxides. The pressurized water is added to the intake air after the turbocharger. The water evaporates immediately, due to the high temperature of the compressed air, and enters the cylinders as steam, thus lowering the combustion temperatures and the formation of NOx by 40%. Water consumption is about two times the fuel oil consumption.

These new emissions reducing initiatives can be incorporated into complete installation packages and compliment the environmental and operational efficiency of Wärtsilä’s portfolio of common-rail diesel engines.

Common rail
One of the most recent orders for common-rail engine technology was from Finland’s Aker Yards for the delivery of the main engines and transverse tunnel thrusters for the 220,000 grt Project Genesis cruise ship contracted by Royal Caribbean Cruise Ltd (RCL).

Due for delivery in autumn 2009, this cruise ship will be powered by six Wärtsilä 46 common rail diesel engines in diesel-electric power plant configuration to supply all propulsion, ancillary and hotel services. Wärtsilä is also supplying four transverse tunnel thrusters.

The Project Genesis is a huge leap in size, being some 43% larger than RCL’s record-breaking Freedom of the Seas delivered earlier this year.
In August, Wärtsilä was awarded another contract to power a cruise ship newbuilding for RCL-subsidiary Celebrity Cruises. With this order Wärtsilä will now be powering the whole series of three new post-Panamax cruise ships contracted by RCL at Meyer Werft during 2006. Each ship will be equipped with four 16-cylinder Wärtsilä 46 common rail engines having a combined power of 67,200 kW.

In addition, RCL has chosen Wärtsilä diesel engines for retrofitting in eight cruise ships of Celebrity Cruises and Royal Caribbean International. The new engines will give RCL better fuel economy while meeting all environmental requirements for air emissions.

The eight ships concerned are the Millennium-class ships of Celebrity Cruises and the Radiance class ships of Royal Caribbean International, all being of 91,000 grt and carrying 2000 passengers. Each ship has a 58 MW power plant based on gas turbine-driven generating sets for propulsion and all other electrical requirements on board.

The ships will now each be fitted with an additional 11.2 MWe generating set powered by a 16-cylinder Wärtsilä 38 engine. Wärtsilä will deliver the complete Wärtsilä 38 generating sets in Vee-form configuration with required ancillary equipment.

Wärtsilä has supplied over 100 diesel engines for RCL cruise ships in operation or under construction, including the Vision, Voyager, Freedom and Solstice classes.

Common rail development
Since its debut in 2002, the common-rail injection engine has set the standard for environmentally safe shipping. But new developments and advanced “multiple mapping technology” is set to make for a much cleaner marine environment.

Today the common rail system is available with the Wärtsilä 20, Wärtsilä 32, Wärtsilä 38, and Wärtsilä 46 medium speed engines. And of Wärtsilä’s low speed engine products, common rail is a standard installation with the RT-flex50, RT-flex58T, RT-flex60C, RT-flex68, RT-flex 82C, RT-flex 82T, RT-flex84T and RT-flex96C engine types.

The common-rail systems for Wärtsilä medium-speed and RT-flex low-speed engines are necessarily different in execution, but provide the same benefits.

The main objective of the common-rail development was to make the engines completely environmentally-friendly and the first production engines were sold with a guaranteed smoke value of FSN 0.4. The engines were clearly better than that on the test bed, and after some fine-tuning in the field further improvements were made.

Today’s production engines are capable of smoke values below FSN 0.2, and when the engines are running on very poor quality high-ash fuel smoke stays below FSN 0.25.

Having a clean exhaust is environmentally friendly, but it becomes really advantageous now when some harbours in Europe, particularly Rotterdam and Hamburg, have started to impose visual smoke requirements. Coastal authorities in California and Alaska also have a penalty system, which can lead to the permission for a ship operating in these waters being revoked.

The latest Wärtsilä Unified Controls - UNIC automation system gives ‘multiple mapping’ capability plus more powerful diagnostic tools that have not been supplied previously while emission legislation sets new limits for different emissions on different cruise areas, common-rail technology offers an excellent opportunity to reduce NOx emission to a desired pre-tested level when needed just by pushing a button.

This is possible by using multiple maps. These are a library of settings in the common rail engine control system and by adjusting timing and rail pressure the desired pre-tested performance target can be achieved.

Essentially the multiple maps principle allows the engine to be calibrated independently for different fuel types, such as high ash fuels and to achieve optimum operational settings.

This means that ship owners running common rail engines optimise engine performance on several grades of fuels like high-ash fuel, standard heavy fuel, diesel oil, and even emulsified fuels, without hardware changes. The same multiple map system can also be used for to optimise tunings, economy, smoke and NOx emissions etc.

More about Wärtsilä and cruise at: http://www.wartsila.com/cruise

About Wärtsilä Corporation:
Wärtsilä enhances the business of its customers by providing them with complete lifecycle power solutions. When creating better and environmentally compatible technologies, Wärtsilä focuses on the marine and energy markets with products and solutions as well as services. Through innovative products and services, Wärtsilä sets out to be the most valued business partner of all its customers. This is achieved by the dedication of more than 14,000 professionals manning 130 Wärtsilä locations in close to 70 countries around the world.

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