On March 15, 2026, the shaft generator retrofit project for a leading Singapore-based shipping company was successfully completed and delivered after sea trials by ContiOcean. From order acceptance to delivery, the project only took three and a half months. The team of ContiOcean worked through the Spring Festival holiday and successfully delivered on its commitments with exceptional efficiency. By providing robust technical solutions, maximizing efficiency, and ensuring reliable quality, the project helped the shipowner reduce costs and improve operational performance, while also advancing the goals of carbon peak and carbon neutrality (referred to as the "dual-carbon" goals). This achievement underscores the company's technical expertise, delivery capabilities, and strong market competitiveness.
■Key Milestone: Achievements Through 100-Days Intensive Efforts, Responsibility Shown in Holiday-Overcoming Delivery
From project kick-off to successful delivery, the team of ContiOcean completed all retrofit tasks in an efficient pace of three and a half months, spanning the Spring Festival holiday. Faced with challenges such as tight construction period, heavy tasks and great coordination difficulties during the holiday, the Company formulated a full-process management and control plan at the first time, coordinated all links of design, procurement,manufacturing, installation and commissioning, optimized process connection and compressed non-essential cycles. Throughout the Spring Festival, the project continued without interruption, with all members remaining at their posts and collaborating closely. Their high sense of responsibility ensured steady progress, ultimately achieving delivery ahead of schedule. This demonstrates efficient execution in fulfilling commitments to customers and fully reflects the Company’s high-performance capabilities.
■Technical Highlights: Minor Modifications, Quick Installation, Low Risk, Simple Operation & Maintenance, High Benefits
Adopting a shaft-mounted structure, ContiOcean Shaft Generator System boasts multiple cost advantages. For example, it eliminates the need to disassemble the main shaft and main engine, significantly reducing labor, dock and ship operation costs; it occupies a small space in the engine room, making it suitable for old ships and ship types with limited space.
By efficiently utilizing the redundant power of the main engine to generate electricity, the system can directly replace the operation of auxiliary engines, reducing fuel consumption and pollutant emissions of auxiliary engines from the source. Meanwhile, the system operates stably and reliably, equipped with all-round intelligent monitoring that can real-time monitor operating parameters, automatically alarm and activate protection in case of abnormalities, and fully ensure navigation safety. The core components of the system have a long service life and simple maintenance. The intelligent data recording and fault location functions greatly reduce operation and maintenance costs, and comprehensively optimize the operational benefits of the ship throughout its life cycle.
According to calculations, after the successful installation of ContiOcean Shaft Generator System, the ship's fuel consumption is significantly reduced, with an annual saving of about 300,000 to 400,000 US dollars in operating costs. The investment payback period is short, and the effect of cost reduction and efficiency increase is prominent.
■Uniting Efforts for a New Journey, Leading the Green Development into the Future
The successful delivery of the first shaft generator retrofit project marks a brand-new starting point for the development of ContiOcean. In the future, taking this opportunity, the Company will continue to deepen the R&D of ship energy-saving and low-carbon technologies, constantly optimize the performance of the shaft generator system, and accelerate the transformation and large-scale application of technological achievements. With more professional solutions and a more efficient service system, the Company will empower the green transformation of global ships and help the shipping industry achieve low-carbon, efficient and sustainable development. Adhering to the development philosophy of green leadership, innovation-driven and customer-first, ContiOcean will continue to create milestone achievements in the industry and contribute ContiOcean's strength to the realization of the national Dual-carbon goals and the upgrading and development of the shipping industry.
