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ABB orders the construction of an innovative ship put down-digs out to the Norwegian yard Kleven
the unit will be taken in delivery in 2017
September 18, 2015
The Helvetian ABB, group that develops to technologies and systems for the energy and the automation, has ordered to the navalmeccanica society Norwegian Kleven the construction of a ship put down-digs out that she will be taken in delivery in 2017. The unit, that it will be realized in the ship yard Kleven Verft di Ulsteinvik and is planned in collaboration with the Norwegian Ship Sales Design, will be long 140 meters and wide 30 meters approximately.
"This ship of next generation, that it will be equipped of the most advanced technologies developed from ABB - has explained today Claudio Facchin, president of the division Power Systems of the Swiss group - increasing the flexibility and the operating ability, will constitute a key element of differentiation of our activity in the field of the cables to high voltage".
"This - it has emphasized the managing director of the Kleven, Ståle Rasmussen - is an important contract and a lot important for Kleven, in a moment in which in general terms orders of shipbuilding they are little. Moreover it is of great importance the addition to our pocketbook orders of another ulterior contract to out of the traditional offshore segment".
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