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Two new cruise ships of the Carnival group will be equipped of the systems of ABB Azipod propulsion
Store clerk with Fincantieri of the value of 60 million dollars
November 18, 2015
Helvetian ABB has adjudicated a new order of the value of 60 million dollars in order to supply all the wirings and the system of propulsion Azipod XO for two new cruise ships of property of the American Carnival Corporation. The two ships, that they will be constructed by Fincantieri in Italy, will navigate for the crocieristiche companies Holland America Line and Carnival Cruise Line of the group American ( on 19 December 2014).
The store clerk includes moreover the main generators, pictures, a system of remote control from and the transformers of distribution. ABB has remembered that the new Azipod is a system of adjustable propulsion gearless where the drive engine electrical worker is situated in a submergeeed pod, to out of the hull of the ship, and that the design will increase safety and the efficiency on the consumption, returning it the system of echo-more compatible propulsion.
Heikki Soljama, in charge of the Marine business and Ports of ABB, has manifested satisfaction for the prosecuzione of the collaboration with the navalmeccanico group Fincantieri, that he lasts by now give beyond 25 years: the first delivery of a system of propulsion electrical worker ABB for Fincantieri was carried out for a Carnival cruise ship in 1990; from 14 ships then constructed from Fincantieri are equipped of Azipod propulsion of the Swiss group. Twenty-four ships Carnival Corporation today are equipped of Azipod propulsion.
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Helvetian ABB has adjudicated a new order of the value of 60 million dollars in order to supply all the wirings and the system of propulsion Azipod XO for two new cruise ships of property of the American Carnival Corporation. The two ships, that they will be constructed by Fincantieri in Italy, will navigate for the crocieristiche companies Holland America Line and Carnival Cruise Line of the group American 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
