Wärtsilä and CSSC Guangzhou Marine Diesel (GMD) have signed a licence agreement for the manufacture and sale of Wärtsilä two-stroke engines in China.
The licence agreement covers the entire engine portfolio with a power range of between 4,300 and more than 80,000kW per engine.
The company expects to produce the first engines by the end of 2011.
The company’s low-speed engines are developed, designed, promoted, licensed, marketed and serviced by Wärtsilä in Switzerland.