{"id":634,"date":"2020-11-13T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2020\/11\/13\/thordon-fits-second-ro-ro-with-thorplas-blue\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:52:23","slug":"thordon-fits-second-ro-ro-with-thorplas-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/equipment\/thordon-fits-second-ro-ro-with-thorplas-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Thordon fits second ro-ro with ThorPlas-Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The work on board Forsea Ferries\u2019 <em>Tycho Brahe<\/em> follows an earlier successful installation to the bow doors of <em>Aurora<\/em>, the first of two high-intensity battery-operated ferries converted by Sweden\u2019s Oresund Drydocks (ODD) and delivered in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first ever installation of a Thordon self-lubricating bearing to the bow doors of a ro-ro ferry. \u201c<em>Aurora<\/em> and her sister ship <em>Tycho Brahe<\/em> are the first ferries of this size running on 100% battery power,\u201d explained Christian Andersson, senior chief engineer, <em>Aurora<\/em>. \u201cThis is a huge sustainable benefit as we save about 23,000 tonnes of CO2, 13 tonnes of NOx and 5 tonnes of SOx being emitted to the atmosphere each year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 32 tonne bow doors are opened and closed 48 times a day leading to seizing and cracking of the bronze-type bushings. \u201cWe don\u2019t have this problem with ThorPlas-Blue,\u201d said Mr Andersson. We are now looking at Thordon\u2019s water-lubricated and grease-free bearings for more applications in other vessels in the fleet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1991 and 1992 respectively, the 111m <em>Tycho Brahe<\/em> and <em>Aurora<\/em> operate fully on battery power on the route between Helsingborg in Sweden and Helsing\u00f8r in Denmark. The vessels use a battery recharging point at each port for five minutes to provide enough power for the twenty-minute crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thordon Bearings is to retrofit its grease-free ThorPlas-Blue bearings to one of the world\u2019s most environmentally friendly ships at its next scheduled drydocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}