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August 2012www.marinelink.com 89Wärtsilä for Nine Kuwait Oil Tanker Wärtsilä will supply the main enginesfor a series of vessels being built for Kuwait Oil Tanker Co. (KOTC), a Sub- sidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. Four VLCCs (Very Large Crude Oil Car- riers), one Aframax tanker and four medium-range tankers that are being built in South Korea at Daewoo Ship- building & Marine Engineering (DSME). The VLCCs will be fitted with 7-cylinder Wärtsilä RT-flex 82T engines and a Waste Heat Recovery System. The Afra- max vessel will be powered by a Wärtsilä 6-cylinder RT-flex 58T main engine, and the medium-range tankers by a Wärtsilä 7RT-flex50D main engine. All engines will be built by the Engine & Machinery Division of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI-EMD), which is a Wärt- silä licensee.MHI Licenses Deck Machinery Tech To Imabari Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) signed an agreement with ImabariShipbuilding Co., Ltd. in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, under which MHI li-censes production and marketing of deck machinery. The production of licensed machinery is scheduled to be started inApril 2013. Imabari Shipbuilding is the Japan's largest shipbuilder, based on new shipbuilding tonnage and ship sales. The licensed deck machineries consist of var- ious configuration types and are capable for use in all ships. Hydraulic pumps andmotors, which drive machines, will be supplied by MHI. Imabari plans to build the deck machinery at the shop in DalianImaoka Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a ship block manufacture plant that Imabari has established in Dalian, China. Deck ma-chinery consists of anchor windlasses,which are used for anchoring and anchorhoisting, and mooring winches, whichare used to moor a vessel to a pier or berthing facilities. MHI manufactured its first deck ma- chinery in 1962. The company's deck machinery has built up a solid delivery track record and has won high reputation from customers for their high reliability, and durability. Parker Hannifin Acquires Kittiwake Group Kittiwake Group has been acquired by Parker Hannifin Corp., a leader in motion and control technologies. The transaction is designed to offer greater value with a comprehensive and innovative range of products and solutions and includes theacquisition of the entire Kittiwake Group, including Kittiwake Developments Ltd, Kittiwake Procal Limited, Kittiwake Hol- royd Limited and Kittiwake Incorpo- rated. Kittiwake, with annual sales of approximately $20m and employing 95 people, will be integrated into Parker's Filtration Group and the sales will be re-ported as part of the International Indus-trial Segment. Parker Hannifin employs approximately 58,000 people in 47 coun-tries and its sales revenue was more than $12 billion in fiscal year 2011. MR#8 (82-89):MR Template 8/10/2012 9:44 AM Page 89