The merchant vessel segment covers ships used for the transportation of mainly non-perishable goods referred to as cargo. Of the world’s fleet, this segment is the largest with 33 000 vessels, totalling 700 Mdwt (May 2008, ships above 2000 GT).
Modern merchant ships move large quantities of goods. Wärtsilä’s advances in related fields of technology such as common rail, dual fuel, and hydrodynamics, are providing a foundation for new levels of efficiency in the transportation of cargo on the high seas.
The merchant vessel fleet can be divided into:
Considerable research and development investments have placed Wärtsilä in the vanguard of companies offering innovative technologies to boost energy efficiency and environmentally sound operation at sea. Learn here more about our Energy Efficiency Catalogue.
