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October 2011www.marinelink.com 67Success for XpressLink from Ship Equip Two independent international shipping companies acted immediately and ordered 28 XpressLink systemsfrom Ship Equip. "The 28 orders are from two Ship Owners, one located in the Asia region and one in EMEA region,? said CSO Gilles A Gillesen. ?The Ka ready SeaTel antenna is part of the XpressLink service, and scheduled available early 2012. Deliveries to the above customers will commence before this antenna is available, in which case we will deliver one of our cur- rent products which also includes FBB failover from Ship Equip VSAT at a fixed fee. These installations will be upgraded to XpressLink at a later time at no extra cost for the customer." Inmarsat XpressLink was an- nounced in July as the bridge to Inmarsat Global Xpressto be launched in 2014. As a bridge to the Global Xpress satellite communi-cation to be launched by Ship Equip owner Inmarsat in 2014, Ship Equip is offering a managed service of VSAT from Ship Equip bundled with FleetBroadband. The flat fee service delivers 512 Kbps/512 Kbps with a minimum guaranteed data rate of 128 Kbps.?This service brings communication speeds for mar- itime users a long step towards speeds that are common for land based offices, and should open up a new way of thinking about communication ship ? shore. I think now is a good time to act for Ship Owners who has beenawaiting the development in Maritime Communication? says Chief Sales Officer Gilles A Gillesen. XpressLink has a suggested retail price of$2,999/month for 60 months.www.shipequip.no Two-Stroke Dual-Fuel Gas Engine Wärtsilä tested its new low-speed gas engine technol- ogy in trials conducted at the company's facilities in Tri- este, Italy. The tests were carried out on September 19 in conjunction with Wärtsilä's Licensees Conference in Trieste. Wärtsilä reportedly demonstrated that the en- gine performance fully complies with the upcomingIMO Tier III nitrogen oxide (NOx) limits. The new RTX5 2-stroke test engine is part of Wärtsilä's two- stroke dual-fuel gas engine technology development programme. This is an important part of the company's strategy to lower emissions, increase efficiency and to develop its low-speed engine portfolio to include dual- fuel gas engines alongside its medium-speed dual-fuel engines. www.wartsila.com MR Oct.11 # 9 (65-72):MR Template 10/5/2011 3:54 PM Page 67