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ABB for maintenance obtains a contract and the propulsive potenziamento of the Azipod of the ships of the Carnival group
the agreement is relative to 20 units of the fleet and has a duration 15-year-old
April 12, 2012
Helvetian ABB has signed a contract in the long term of the duration 15-year-old with the crocieristico group American Carnival relative Corporation to the maintenance and the propulsive potenziamento of the Azipod installed on 20 ships of the fleet of the group American. The Swiss company has emphasized that the agreement allows a annual saving for each ship pairs with a million dollars.
The contract, besides the assistance and to the manutentivi participations on propulsive the Azipod, includes also the maintenance of other installed technological and computer science systems on the ships.
"The customers of all the fields - he has commented in charge of the division Process Automation of ABB, Veli-Matti Reinikkala - are looking for the way to reduce the costs of the entire life-cycle of producing and to make so that such costs are more expectable, continuing meanwhile to improve the performances of means. We offer to an entire range of services, included technological updates and reliability of the assistance, in order to contribute to be extended the life of means and to guarantee that they work to the maximum possible level of energy efficiency".
According to the forecasts of ABB, the participations realized on propulsive the Azipod of the ships of the fleet of Carnival they will allow an improvement of already elevated energy efficiency of 2,5-4%.
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Helvetian ABB has signed a contract in the long term of the duration 15-year-old with the crocieristico group American Carnival relative Corporation to the maintenance and the propulsive potenziamento of the Azipod installed on 20 ships of the fleet of the group American. The Swiss company has emphasized that the agreement allows a annual saving for each ship pairs with a million dollars.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
