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Cavotec MSL has won an order from Taiwan’s CSBC Corporation to supply four Alternative Marine Power (AMP) systems for installation on four new-build container vessels.

AMP, or “cold-ironing”, involves vessels turning off their engines while in port, and connecting to shore-side electricity, thus helping to reduce pollution in port areas and surrounding communities.

Yang Ming Marine Transport will install the systems on four 6,600 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) container vessels to be built at the Kaohsiung shipyard in Taiwan. The ships are set for completion in 2010 and 2011, with delivery of the AMP units expected to run from the end of 2009, until the beginning of 2011.

In July, Cavotec announced the successful connection of a post-PANAMAX container vessel to shore-based AMP at the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) in California. China Shipping Line vessel, Xin Ya Zhou, successfully transferred its power supply for on-board systems from its engines to a shore-based AMP system.

Post-PANAMAX ships have dimensions that are too great to allow passage through the Panama Canal. The Xin Ya Zhou is such a vessel, with a capacity of 8,600 TEU.

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