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iar with our technology for MGPS, now won’t say that we can build a thousand a pumps, and other things. There could

Excerpted from a Maritime Reporter they qre going to be using it for their bal- year, but we don’t have any real restric- be bottlenecks there, but from our side,

TV video. For the full video, visit: last water treatment systems. They have tions as far as capacity, other than what what we produce and what we manufac- http://www.marinelink.com/videos/video/ maritime-reporter-tv-interview-matt-granit- the same 6,000 cubic meter per hour everyone else is going to face. We all ture, there’s no real limit, no manufactur- to-evoqua-100081 ? ow rate. That’s our target, that’s our use a lot of similar components – ? lters, ing bottlenecks.

“sweet spot.”

Where are you in the approvals pro- cess?

— Right now we’ve received our IMO- type approval, Germany is our ? ag state,

BSH is the approval body. Right after

Let’s write the future that, we started basically testing for U.S.

Coast Guard approvl. We are testing solely in the United States for the Coast with remote performance

Guard, under their watchful eye, both at the MERC facility in Baltimore and diagnostics that keep

Norfolk, and the GSI facility in Duluth and Superior. We have DNV, GL-type approval for the system. We are in pro- fleets sailing.

cess of obtaining Lloyd’s approval. We anticipate the end of this year to be able to turn in the (USCG) application, hope- fully receiving the Coast Guard type ap- proval the beginning of next year (2017).

So Evoqua may be a new name for the ballast water market, but this isn’t your ? rst rodeo. Tell us about your ? rst test ship.

Our ? rst test ship ws a 13,000 TEU container ship. At the time (2012) it wasn’t the world’s largest, but it was close. It was a new build, but it was ba- sically a retro? t because the shipyard in

Korea had not planned to put the system on. So we gained experience both as a newbuild and a retro? t with that one.

Not only did we use it for all of our test- ing for IMO, but the same vessel agreed again to allow us to use them for our

Coast Guard type approval. We should be ? nished with our shipboard testing on board that vessel this month.

One of the things that ship owners are worried about is whether the manu- facturing capacity there to keep up with demand. Tell us a little bit about your manufacturing capacity.

That is one of the strengths of Evo- qua – we are not a small, one-horse-only company. We are a consortium of differ- ent water companies; we have roughly 4,000 employees in 170 locations around

ABB’s family of Azipod ship propulsion systems has logged over 12 million the globe. For ballast water only, we will operating hours. Today, we provide more than 650 connected vessels around have three manufacturing facilities: in the world with live system optimization and technical support from our the U.K., in China, and in Korea. The

Integrated Operations Centers. Welcome to a new era of maritime industry.

Korean and Chinese facilities will main-

Discover more at abb.com/future ly focus on new build, while the Europe- an, the U.K. facility, mainly on retro? t. I www.marinelink.com 11

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