The engine manufacturer MAN Diesel&Turbo announced that its first super-long-stroke, 90cm bore Mk 9 engine has successfully completed test bed trials at Hyundai Heavy Industries Engine & Machinery Division in South Korea.

The engine will deliver a torque of 8.5 million Nm at 84 rpm with a total output of 69,720 kW. It is constructed by Hyundai Heavy Industries, and will be installed on a container vessel built at Samsung Heavy Industries for the Hong Kong-based container shipping company Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL).
Developed specifically for container ships, the S90ME-C9.2 is based on the VLCC (very large crude carrier)-optimised S90ME-C8, which in the meantime also found applications in a number of container ships, according to MAN.