Emma Maersk received much fanfare in 2006 when the ship became the largest container ship ever built at that time. What is generally neglected by the mainstream media is that it also harbours the world’s largest and most powerful engine. This is the story of Wärtsilä RT-flex96C.
The engine of a ship is often termed as the ‘heart of the ship’ and rightly so. Without it, the ship is literally ‘dead’.
Be it the two world wars and the Cold War that followed, achieving supremacy in building the...
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