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Cartagena, June 6.
The NAVANTIA Motors Factory in Cartagena has proceeded to send to Ferrol the two diesel propulsion engines built for the first AOR-type vessel (Auxiliary Oil Replineshment), which is being built by NAVANTIA for the Australian Navy. Galician facilities.
The boarding operation has been possible after successfully passing the Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT).
The contribution of the Engine Factory for each of these two vessels is two NAVANTIA-MAN propulsion engines, type 18V 32/40 of 9,000 kilowatts (12,240 horsepower) at 750 revolutions per minute, and four generator diesel groups, with NAVANTIA-MAN engines type 7L 31/21 of 1,760 kilowatts (2,394 horsepower) at 900 revolutions per minute each.
The construction of these ships, inspired by the supply ship 'Cantabria', of the Spanish Navy, supposes a work load for NAVANTIA and its auxiliary industry of, approximately, three million hours and four years of work, to which there is They add their maintenance in Australia for a period of five years.
This is a contract that for NAVANTIA involves the consolidation of Australia as a preferred client, pending the final decision on a program of construction of nine frigates, to which NAVANTIA aspires, and which would be carried out in full that country
Source: Agencias
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