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MAN B&W Units Power Brazilian Resurgence
Suezmax tanker latest vessel in oil transport fleet
On 20 May, 2013, MAN Diesel & Turbo representatives attended the
delivery ceremony of the Suezmax tanker ‘Zumbi dos Palmares’.
Powered by an MAN B&W 6S70ME-C type prime mover and 3 × MAN
7L23/30H auxiliary engines, the vessel is the second ship built by
Estaleiro Atlantico Sul (EAS) stemming from the Brazilian Government’s
PROMEF shipbuilding program.
The ceremony took place at the EAS shipyard, in north-eastern Brazil, and was
attended by the President of Brazil – Dilma Rouseff, President of Petrobras – Maria
das Graças Silva Foster, and President of Transpetro – Sergio Machado.
“We are proud to participate in this new chapter of Brazilian shipbuilding history”, said
Lincoln de Sousa, Diesel Division director of MAN Diesel & Turbo in Brazil who also
attended the ceremony. He continued: “We want to congratulate Transpetro on the
successful launch and are confident that our engine will contribute to a successful
working life for the new tanker. To this end, we have already trained some of the
Zumbi dos Palmares crew on various aspects of the engine’s operation at our MAN
Primeserv Academy in Rio de Janeiro.”
At the ceremony, Transpetro also announced the reactivation of contracts for 12 ships
to be constructed by EAS. The latest newbuilding is one of 10 Suezmax vessels EAS
is contracted to produce.
Transpetro is Brazil’s largest hydrocarbon transportation company and a fully owned
subsidiary of Petrobras, the local energy multinational. Under PROMEF (Program for
Modernization and Expansion of the Fleet), Transpetro has ordered a total of 28
ships, all to be equipped with MAN B&W two-stroke prime movers. Each engine has
an output of circa 22,000 hp.
The Zumbi dos Palmares has a payload of one million barrels of crude oil, equivalent
to half of Brazil’s daily production, and will primarily sail long, international routes.
Immediately after the ceremony, the tanker started its maiden voyage, departing
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Atlântico Sul in Suape for the Campos Basin off Rio de Janeiro. Its launching marks
the fifth PROMEF vessel in operation, two of which have come from the EAS yard.
The other EAS vessel is a sister Suezmax tanker, the ‘João Cândido’, which was
delivered in 2010 and is similarly powered by an electronically controlled MAN B&W
6S70ME-C type engine.
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Zumbi dos Palmares – main data
Length (m) 274.2
Moulded breadth (m) 48.0
Height (m) 51.6
No. Of tanks 12 + 2 cargo tank leftovers
Speed (kn) 14.8
Range (miles) 20,000
Main engine 1 × MAN B&W 6S70ME-C, Maximum
Continuous Power 16,852 kW at 91 rpm
Aux. engines 3 × 7L23/30H, individual output of 1,120 KW
at 900 rpm
About PROMEF
PROMEF aims to modernise the Transpetro fleet with a secondary aim the stimulation
of activity within the Brazilian naval industry. Under the original terms of the program,
49 vessels of different sizes for the transport of oil and oil products were ordered,
distributed among domestic shipyards, amounting to an investment of R$ 10.8 billion.
The expectation is that the Transpetro fleet will number more than 110 ships in 2016.

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Naming ceremony in 2010 for the ‘João Candido‘, the first Suezmax tanker in a series of ten
built by Estaleiro Atlântico Sul for TransPetro and a sister ship to ‘Zumbi dos Palmares’. The oil
tanker’s main engine is an electronically controlled MAN B&W 6S70ME-C type, designed by
MAN Diesel & Turbo and built by licensee Doosan (photo © Petrobrás)
About MAN Diesel & Turbo
MAN Diesel & Turbo SE, based in Augsburg, Germany, is the world’s leading provider of large-bore diesel engines and
turbomachinery for marine and stationary applications. It designs two-stroke and four-stroke engines that are manufactured
both by the company and by its licensees. The engines have power outputs ranging from 450 kW to 87 MW. MAN Diesel &
Turbo also designs and manufactures gas turbines of up to 50 MW, steam turbines of up to 150 MW and compressors with
volume flows of up to 1.5 million m³/h and pressures of up to 1,000 bar. The product range is rounded off by turbochargers,
propellers, gas engines and chemical reactors. MAN Diesel & Turbo’s range of goods includes complete marine propulsion
systems, turbomachinery units for the oil & gas as well as the process industries and turnkey power plants. Customers
receive worldwide after-sales services marketed under the MAN PrimeServ brand. The company employs around 15,000
staff at more than 100 international sites, primarily in Germany, Denmark, France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, India
and China. MAN Diesel & Turbo is a company in the Power Engineering business area of MAN SE.
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