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Marine Propulsion Annual

Hyundai, MAN B&W Are At Top of Engine Power

By David Tinsley, technical editor Rising Korean aspirations as to market influence and technological standing could alter the established order in an important segment of the engine busi- ness. While MAN B&W announced opening contracts for its new L21/31

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Hyundai, the world's largest producer of marine diesels, as a designer in its own right. The company's development of the in-house Himsen brand denotes a move towards increased technological self-reliance, given the wholesale dependence up until now on manufac- turing licenses from foreign engine firms.

The move has been many years in the planning and is underpinned as much by pure industrial will as by the physical capability to deliver 1.2 million-bhp (900,000-kW) or 500 sets of medium- speed engines every year, as well as 5 million-bhp (3.7 m-kW) or 150 two- stroke propulsion engines.

MAN B&W designs figure promi- nently in the output of both main and auxiliary plant from Hyundai's engine works at the Ulsan integrated shipbuild- ing complex, and the European compa- ny has sought to strengthen its position in the 950-1,800 kW band with the com-

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