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The mobile container workshop.

When you look at the marine market today, where do you see opportunities?

For newbuildings, especially the big ships, we have been facing local compe- tition in Asia. One response has been to set up a local shop in South Korea, for ex- ample, where we are able to manufacture

How to keep calm equipment at a slightly lower cost (com- pared to Europe), selling the equipment when the sea is anything but.

under a different brand. The main (driver for opportunity) is we moved to a differ- ent part of the business chain, speci? cal- ly approaching all of the world’s marine workshops. I think if you talk to marine

Image: Chris Marine workshops today they see a lot of oppor- tunities, especially the big ones. So here we are seeing an increase in demand for maintenance equipment as wells as condi- tion monitoring equipment.

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