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TECH FEATURE PROPULSION

Inside the Scania Marine

Power Platform

As the Scania USA marine business continues to grow, Dave Hughes, Sales Manager, Scania

USA, shares insights on what’s in store for this powertrain solution provider in 2022 and beyond.

United States aggressively for more than 10 years. In that time,

Dave, to start, can you give us a quick over- we’ve been able to place approximately 8,000 engines within view of the Scania marine portfolio today?

The Scania Marine portfolio ? lls a nice niche. When people the US market, of which about 10% are marine engines. One look at our competitors, they are in the horsepower range from thing to consider is this doesn’t include all the legacy Scania products from when Scania was selling trucks via its partner- 50 all the way up to a couple thousand horsepower. But Sca- nia, with its core market being on-highway trucks and buses in ship with Mack. On a global scale, industrial and marine en-

Europe, have developed a robust, competitive and dependable gine sales, engines alone are 10,000 to 12,000 units annually. solution for the maritime market. We offer two platforms, the

Can you give us a rundown of the primary mar-

DI13, which is an inline six cylinder, and the DI16, which is a kets that you serve with insights on the ones

V8 model. The DI13 is available in 250 to 900 horsepower on that you ? nd particularly promising today?

a propulsion engine, as well as generator or auxiliary engines

Despite the challenging times, many of the traditional mar- from 269 KW up to 426 KW. The D16 V8 con? guration is kets we’ve been successful in have continued to grow and be offered from 550 up to 1,150 horsepower with auxiliary ap- successful. For example, the Bristol Bay salmon ? sheries and plications in the 470 KW region.

Scania has been selling industrial and marine engines in the the Northeast lobster and shell? sh industries have been very “Scania has a proven track record in quad engine CTVs currently being operated in

Europe and it’s in a great posit on to support the market here in the U.S.”

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