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Welding (JTSW) – has brought in ex- market demand for increasingly power- oil and gas senior engineer Iain Wilson ful drive train technology. to help shape the company as it moves into a new chapter at the Scottish Ma- ABB Delivers for Icebreaking rine Technology Park.

LNG Carrier Fleet

The ? nal vessel in 15-ship series enters

LeBlanc Joins Coastal Marine service for Yamal LNG project ahead

Coastal Marine Equipment (CME) of of schedule. Yakov Gakkel, owned by

Gulfport, MS said that Trey LeBlanc joint venture between Teekay LNG has joined CME and will be working Partners and China LNG Partners, joins with the Sales & Marketing group. a ? eet of 15 specially designed tank-

LeBlanc has more than 30+ years expe- ers transporting lique? ed natural gas rience in the marine industry. (LNG) year-round from one of Russia’s most signi? cant export developments in a generation, Yamal LNG. Built in

LR Awards Wärtsilä Cyber Cert

Burnett named CEO of Seiche

Lloyd’s Register (LR) awarded Wärt- less than six years and to ARC7 ice silä system-level cyber certi? cation class, ? fteen 170,000 cu. m. capacity for its network architecture relating to vessels have opened the Northern Sea

Wärtsilä’s integrated main and auxil- Route to commercial gas shipping and iary machinery. The LR’s ShipRight signi? cantly expanded the navigation

SAFE AL2 certi? cation, which is period in the direction of the Asia- with Wärtsilä’s Data Collection Unit Paci? c region and ensured year-round (WDCU), gives Approval-in-Principle transportation of gas to the customers (AiP) for the entire Wärtsilä integrated westwards. BB’s Azipod propulsion system network, rather than for any system, which features an electric drive individual component. motor in a submerged pod outside the ship hull, can rotate 360 degrees

VIKING Acquires Drew FSR Division to increase maneuverability, which is

Viking increases its global marine particularly crucial for vessels operat- ? re? ghting equipment services (MFS) ing in ice. The scope of ABB supply with the acquisition of Drew Marine’s also includes turbochargers, generators,

FSR Division, which today provides switchboards, transformers, electric

Malin names Sharples Director services in more than 150 ports across drives and propulsion control systems.

45 countries.

New Test Facility for Green Energy

Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The

Switch announced a new facility in

Finland, enabling the testing and serial production of a new breed of large multi-megawatt-class drives for cus- tomers in the wind, marine and turbo industries. The large drive test center, set to open during spring 2020, will be capable of testing drives up to 15 MW from the start, with an advanced assem- bly line and lifting capacity of up to 80 tons. It will be one of the largest renew- able energy test centers in the world, helping The Switch satisfy growing

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