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WORKBOATS

Photo: Cummins/Haig-Brown

Shallow-Draft Paraguay Towboat

Paraguay’s Tsuneishi Shipyard, a subsidiary of face area of 720,000 sq. km. and an indirect surface 3 is ? tted with two Cummins Marine NTA855-pow- the Japanese ? rm of the same name, recently de- area of 3,500,000 sq. km. ered 240 kVA / 50 hz (total power: 480 kVA) gen- livered the powerful towboat Tebicuary 3 to her At 6,400 hp, the Tebicuary 3 is more powerful erator sets. There is also a Cummins 6B CS 93 kVa owners Navegación del Sur S.A. (Navesur) in June than most of the towboats currently working on the / 50 Hz emergency generator set. All the engines of 2018. The new vessel is a near sister-ship to the river system. The power derives from four Cum- and gen sets have Japanese NK class certi? cates. 2015-delivered Ceasar Primo for a different owner. mins KTA50 engines, each developing 1600 hp at With Cummins C Command electronic controls the

The newer vessel will also work on the Paraguay- 1800 rpm. The boat is 43 x 18-m with an operating engines will be able to maximize fuel ef? ciency

Paraná River system that provides marine access draft of only 1.83 meters allowing it to push barges and savings. All of this adds to the signi? cant en- to large parts of central South America. “The Par- into most areas of the inland waterway. In addition vironmental savings by moving cargos from trucks aguay-Paraná Waterway is a regional agreement to the Cummins propulsion engines, the Tebicuary to barges.

between Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and

Uruguay with the aim of facilitating navigation and thus regional and international trade. Comprising the Paraguay, Paraná, and Uruguay rivers, at 3,442 km it is one of the longest natural waterways in the world, extending from Puerto Cáceres, Brazil to

Nueva Palmira, Uruguay and Buenos Aires, Argen- tina. Its area of in? uence encompasses a direct sur-

Above:

The red carpet was literally out for visitors to come onboard at the commissioning ceremony for the Tebicuary 3.

Right:

Gathered in the Tebicuary 3 engine room are (l to r) -Victor Vacelar, Application Analyst at Cum- mins, Armando Tavarozzi, HHP Sales Leader at

Cummins, Marcial Yoshizaki, Commercial Man- ager at Tsuneishi, Claudia Kowalczuk, Marketing & Communication Leader at Cummins, Modesto

Benitez, Mechanical Technician at Cummins.

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