New LNG-powered fast ferry will operate on between Helsiniki and Tallinn from 2017
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Rebecca Gibson |
Valmet is to supply an automation system for Tallink’s new LNG-powered fast ferry, which will operate on the route between Helsiniki in Finland and Tallinn in Estonia from early 2017.
To be delivered in April 2016, the automated Valmet DNA distributed control system will control and monitor the ferry’s machinery systems and the electric power management system. It will also include an emergency shutdown system.
Valmet’s engineering team will handle the design, programming, testing and onboard commissioning phases of the project, as well as the sea trials.
“We have had very good experience with the performance of Valmet’s automation system on other Tallink vessels, as well as with high-level service support available both in Finland and Estonia,” said Andres Lepik, Tallink’s project manager for the new vessel.
Currently under construction at the Meyer Turku’s yard, Tallink’s new 49,000gt ferry will carry around 2,800 passengers at a service speed of 27 knots. The 212m vessel’s hull has been designed to miminise hydrodynamic flow resistance and will operate on LNG fuel, enabling her to sail in emission control areas like the Baltic Sea.