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ABB has signed a contract of service in the long term with the Cruises Star
"Virgo Superstar" previews the preventive maintenance of all on board the equipment of the Helvetic group of the ship
January 30, 2013
Group ABB has signed a contract of service in the long term with for maintenance pre-emptive the Cruises Star of all equipment ABB on board of the cruise ship Virgo Superstar for next the five years. The agreement, that it is signed at the end of 2012 and that has taken effect from January 2013, has a value of about a million dollars and such is based on programmed periodic maintenances in way not to impattare on the operativity of the ship.
"We have employed many efforts in coordinating various small society of service for maintenance of the ships Star", it has declared Mikael Mattsson, AVP Marine Operation of the Cruises Star. "Through this agreement of service - it has explained - ABB becomes the only supplier of services for the rotary cars, the switches, the transformers, the drives, and the automation in general terms etc, optimizing considerable the manutentivo process".
"The market - it has found Heikki Soljama, in charge of the Marine business and Cranes of ABB - is to the continuous search of new solutions in order to increase safety and the operativity of the ship, and at the same time the life-cycle of the assets wants to extend being profitable the more expectable costs in the future. ABB has answered very in concrete terms to this demand with a range wide of types of contracts of service that guarantee safety in the operations of edge for our customers. For us of ABB, this it is the correct approach that affords us to throw the bases and to construct long-lasting relations, based on the confidence, between us and our customers".
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