The shipping company Baleària has announced the plans he has after the purchase of the Fortuna yacht, belonging to the royal family until last year, to Fundatur Foundation.
After its acquisition by 2,2 million euros, the shipping company wants to convert its turbines to liquefied gas and facilitate its commercial use in high-speed vessels. According to the president of Baleària, Adolfo Utor, "We are conducting different studies to remotorize some of our high-speed vessels".
Once devoid sailboat engine room, is studied perform a repowering with conventional equipment power 4.000 Kw, enabling it to reach speeds above 20 knots, but with a more sustainable consumption and maintenance, according to this kind of pleasure boats.
And, since the end of 2012, Baleària Together with the Rolls Royce company, it is leading an R & D & I project to carry out different engineering and gas conversion studies on Baleària ships. With the acquisition of the Foners yacht, they are studying how to convert the yacht's turbines to liquefied gas and install them for commercial use in one of the company's fast ferries.
