At 9.30 a.m., we were met by Mr Qui Yi in front of our hotel in order to board the bus to go to the Dalian Marine Diesel Co. Mr Yi is the North China Director of of Wärtsilä China Ltd. and he organized the two visits for us today. He enabled us to visit two very interesting companies!
DMD was our first company visit for this day. This company is licensed to produce ship engines for Wärtsilä which bought the ship engine department of Sulzer a few years ago. After a very interesting introduction we enjoyed a tour through their construction halls.
We then were invited by Wärtsilä in a fancy hotel for a typical Dalian style lunch. After we enjoyed the great variety of the buffet we were already on our way again to the next company visit, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co. DSIC. After a short introduction through the vice president and a brief questions and answer session we found ourselfs in front of a 350 meters long and 300 000 tonnes heavy cargo ship. This was a very interesting experience for us and we appriciated this opportunity very much.
A great thank goes to Wärtsilä and Mr Qui Yi who organized these company visits for us. The visits were very interesting and we have learnt many things. Once again we would also like to express our gratefulness to Haowen Wu, director of the international programs at the Dalian University of Technology, Shelly, the assistant of Haowen and Eileen, the assistant to the dean, for their assistence. Tomorrow we will leave for Shanghai…
