More Chinese Tugs for Export

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July 2005

Production Manager Zhang Peng is pleased with his company's production and it is with good reason. A relatively new yard, in operation for the past four years on the banks of the Yangtze River, Nanjing Tong Kah Shipbuilding is busy with a number of projects including several 300 and 360x80-foot barges.

Tugs are also an important part of their current marketing program. They have recently delivered two 2400 HP tugs and in mid-June they had two more nearing completion. These are Bureau Veriatas classed boats with a length of 29.2 meters, a 9-meter beam and a 4.4-meter molded depth. The current set of four boats is each powered by a pair of Cummins KTA38 M2 engines rated for 1200 HP each at 1800 RPM. Turning 1.9x1.69-meter 4-blade Kaplan props in nozzles, through Reintjes WAF562 gears with 5.4:1 ratios, the tugs deliver 30 tons of bollard pull. The Kort nozzles are fabricated in the shipyard while the 850 kg manganese bronze propellers are purchased from a supplier.

The boats are each equipped with a towing winch holding 300 meters of 42-m/m wires. They also are equipped with towing hooks. Accommodations are provided for a complement of 12 with staterooms for the captain and chief engineer on the main deck level and there are two two-man cabins and one six-man cabin in the foc'sle. Fuel is contained in 2000 cubic meters of tanks.

The yard, located near Nanjing and 300 Km up the Yangtze from the sea, is able to build a tug of this class in eight months and is currently completing one every six weeks. The current four-boat order is for export to Singapore and Malaysian owners. Previous to these boats two similar boats with the same engines rated for 1000 HP each and 25-ton bollard pulls were completed and delivered for export.

For further information:

Hao Jun
Vice General Manager
Nanjing Tong Kah Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.
Room 609-611, Hangdao Mansion
166 North Jangdong Road,
Nanjing, Jiangsu
China 210036
Phone: +86 (0) 25 86273610
Fax: +86 (0) 25 86273710
Or:
Wujiang Industrial Park,
Pukou District, Nanjing
Phone: +86 (0) 25 58295000
Fax: +86 (0) 25 58295342
HP: 13337723415
E-mail: haojunly@e165.com
bargeman@cncbb.net

Simon Leng
Cummins Co.-Inc., USA
Shanghai Rep-Office
Suite 1103, 11th Floor, Metro Tower,
30 Tian Yao Qiao Road
Shangahi, 200030, China
Phone: (86-21) 6426 8000 ex 891
Fax: (86-21) 6426 8666
Mobile: 1370 1835643
E-mail: simon.leng@cummins.com

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