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Order to ABB for the supply of Azipod systems and constituents for two new ships icebreaker
The store clerk has a value of about 25 million dollars
September 19, 2013
Helvetic group ABB has acquired an order of the relative value of about 25 million dollars to the supply of propulsion unit Azipod electrical worker and of the entire systems constituents that will be installed on two new ships icebreaker currently under construction in the German ship yard Nordic Yards on behalf of the Russian ministry of the Transports (the total value of the store clerk are of 150 million euros).
The two ships will be employed on the Arctic routes in the region of Murmansk and to Sakhalin from Are Maritime the Rescue Coordination Centre (SMRCC) for activity of aid, rescue, antifire and anti-pollution. The two icebreaker, long 86 meters and wide 19 meters, will be completed in the spring of 2015.
"From when ABB has carried out in years ‘90 the first delivery of Azipod technologies for the icebreaker - it has explained in charge of the division Process Automation of the Swiss company, Veli-Matti Reinikkala - has been the 60 units delivered and destined to beyond 30 ships icebreaker. Medium two on three constructed ships of ice-class elevated nowadays are equipped with systems ABB. This order consolidates our reputation which reliable partner and of long date of the Russian market".
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