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Goltens Breaks Ground at Dubai Maritime CityGoltens carried out a ground breakingceremony of its new office and workshop facility in Dubai Maritime City (DMC) last month. The company has launched its business in the city, and laid the foun- dation stone for the construction of facil- ities dedicated to building and repairing ships. Goltens, which has a strong pres-ence in the Middle East and across 21 lo-cations around the globe, are under a longterm Musataha ground development agreement with DMC for two plots within the DMC. The plots measuring about 23,000 sq. m. are leased to Goltensfor a period of 25 years. ?Goltens is recognized for its reputa-tion as a reliable, dependable and re-sponsive provider of a wide variety of ship repair and mechanical services. The Middle East marine repair market is ex- pected to grow significantly medium to long term and Goltens Dubai will for theforeseeable future be a large hub for the Middle East and we especially see a fu-ture growth within our specialist core dis- ciplines Diesel, In Situ and Mechanical.Our commitment to our customers is notjust to meet their expectation, but rather to exceed them by utilizing our global re- sources to continually deliver the highest quality standards to the internationalshipping community anywhere in the world?, said Paul Friedberg, President ? Goltens Worldwide Services. The new Goltens Dubai facility will be twice the size compared to what the com-pany has in Dubai today, with a footprint of 10000 sq. m. and an office block of 2000 sq. m. The workshop is a state of the art design with all thinkable modernequipment to serve the marine and in- dustrial markets here in the Middle East, very similar to the other workshops we have built over the last 4 years in China, Rotterdam, Vietnam, Mumbai and Jed- dah.Wärtsilä was contracted by Finland- based Arctia Offshore Oy to carry out modification work to two of the com- pany's vessels. The contract was signed in September 2011. The turnkey project involves the fitting of combined Wärtsilä NOx Reducer (NOR) and Oxidation Cat-alysts (OXI) to the MSV Fennica and MSV Nordica, both of which are multi-functional vessels based on a modified icebreaker design. The ships will also be converted to enable the use of Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel fuel. When this conversion work is completed, the vessels will fulfill the United States Environmental Protec- tion Agency's (EPA) emission require- ments for operating in the Arctic Ocean. This opens up the possibility for Arctia Offshore to participate in arctic oil ex- ploration projects in an environmentally sustainable manner. The work will in- volve fitting the combined Wärtsilä NOR/OXI solution to each of the eight engines that drive the two vessels. The in- stallation schedule is divided into two parts, with the first set scheduled for completion by the en d of December2011, and the second set by the end ofApril 2012. The emission control device consists of a combined abatement systemdesigned to reduce nitrogen oxides(NOx) and to enable the oxidation of car- bon monoxide and unburned hydrocar- bons. The NOR is a customized solution specifically engineered to meet the EPA's emission standards.86Maritime Reporter & Engineering News FEATURE MARINE PROPULSION Wärtsilä: Catalytic Converters for Multipurpose Icebreakers MR Nov.11 # 11 (80-88):MR Template 11/4/2011 11:20 AM Page 86