GE To Supply Gas Turbines For IHI

GE Marine Engines has received a contract from Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) to supply two LM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines.

The units will be used to power a single HDD Murasame-class destroyer being constructed for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).

This past year, GE garnered similar orders from IHI for eight LM2500 gas turbines to power 09DD and two 10DD Murasame-class destroyers, scheduled for delivery in 2002 and 2003, respectively.

The 11DD project brings the total number of LM2500s in the JMSDF fleet to 49 — including all engines on order — operational and spares.

The LM2500 gas turbine kits for the destroyers will be manufactured at GE's Evendale, Ohio facility, while IHI will assemble and test the gas turbines and modules at its Kure No.2 plant. The destroyer will be commissioned in 2004.

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Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 54, Apr 2000

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