Rolls Royce : Roll-Royce to power new high-speed vessels for Italian Navy’s Special Forces

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Rolls-Royce has won a contract to supply engines and waterjets to power and propel two new high-speed vessels designed and built by Intermarine (Immsi Group) for the Italian Navy.

The construction of two high-speed multi-purpose units (UNPAV) has recently begun at Intermarine's Sarzana shipyard.

The vessels are more than 40 metres long, 8 metres wide and powered by three MTU 2000 series diesel engines connecting to three Kamewa S4 water jets.

The UNPAV will be used by the Operational Incursion Group (Gruppo Operativo Incursori or G.O.I), the Special Forces of the Italian Navy. The vessels will increase their capacity to strengthen maritime traffic control, combat human trafficking, undertake counter terror and anti-piracy operations and evacuate personnel from crisis areas.

The GOI is constantly called in to undertake sensitive and difficult tasks in crisis situations of evident strategic importance, responding decisively to urgent operational problems with dangerous political implications. The GOI constantly search for the best equipment on the market, in order to put its personnel in a position to carry out any mission entrusted to them.

Don Roussinos, Rolls-Royce, President - Naval said: 'We are proud to have been chosen to provide the best technologies for missions such as these. We invest to develop solutions best suited for just such complex naval operations as those undertaken by the GOI.'

The collaboration between Intermarine and Rolls-Roycecontinues with minesweeper programmes, for which Rolls-Royceprovides super-silent stainless steel controllable pitch propellers from Kamewa, driven by MTU engines designed to be anti-magnetic and highly shock resistant. Rolls-Roycewill also provide Tenfjord type steering gear.

'In Rolls-Roycewe have a partner dedicated to understanding the needs of our client and capable of very competitive solutions,' said Livio Corghi, CEO of Intermarine. 'Intermarine designs and builds military vessels in composite materials, aluminium and steel. The company's composite Mine Countermeasure Vessels (MCMVs) are globally renowned and its fast patrol boats have been supplied to many of the most important navies in the world.'

Rolls-Royce marine products are in service with 70 navies in the world and on board more than 30,000 commercial ships. The company also operates service centres in over 30 countries worldwide supporting clients.

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1. Rolls-Royce's vision is to be the market-leader in high performance power systems where our engineering expertise, global reach and deep industry knowledge deliver outstanding customer relationships and solutions. We operate across five businesses: Civil Aerospace, Defence Aerospace, Marine, Nuclear and Power Systems.
2. Rolls-Royce has customers in more than 120 countries, comprising more than 400 airlines and leasing customers, 160 armed forces, 4,000 marine customers including 70 navies, and more than 5,000 power and nuclear customers.
3. We have three common themes across all our businesses:
   • Investing in and developing engineering excellence
   • Driving a manufacturing and supply chain transformation which will embed operational excellence in lean, lower-cost facilities and processes
   • Leveraging our installed base, product knowledge and engineering capabilities to provide customers with outstanding service through which we can capture aftermarket value long into the future.
4. Annual underlying revenue was £13.4 billion in 2015, around half of which came from the provision of aftermarket services. The firm and announced order book stood at £79.5 billion at the end of June 2016.
5. In 2015, Rolls-Royce invested £1.2 billion on research and development. We also support a global network of 31 University Technology Centres, which position Rolls-Royceengineers at the forefront of scientific research.
6. Rolls-Royce employs over 50,000 people in more than 46 countries. More than 16,000 of these are engineers.
7. The Group has a strong commitment to apprentice and graduate recruitment and to further developing employee skills. In 2015 we employed 228 graduates and 277 apprentices through our worldwide training programmes.

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