Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Marine Machinery & Engine Co (MHI-MME) has received an order from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co (DSME) of Korea, for waste heat recovery systems (WHRS) for mega container carriers (MCC).

The system will be installed on eleven 19,600 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) MCC being built by DSME for Maersk Line of Denmark, said a statement from the company.

The WHRS on order is MHI-MME's proprietary system for marine use that efficiently generates electric power by maximising recovery and utilisation of exhaust gas waste energy from marine diesel engines, it said.

With this order, the cumulative number of WHRS units ordered since the system's market introduction in 2010 has now become 87, it added. – TradeArabia News Service