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New contracts and orders in industry
DavyMarkham secures golden £10m contract
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eavy engineering specialist DavyMarkham has secured a contract worth more than £10m to supply drum hoists to a Canadian gold producer. The Sheffield based company, which fabricates and supplies complex engineered components, has a strong track record in delivering drum hoists to mines across the globe and the contract will see the hoists operating at the Goldcorp Éléonore Project in northern Quebec. DavyMarkham will supply two double-drum hoists between 2012 and 2014, one production
Major contract announcement for French company in Pakistan
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erlinde France, a division of leading French manufacturer Verlinde, has announced a major contract in Pakistan – a massive new order with Indus Toyota. As part of the deal, Verlinde has supplied Indus Toyota’s car plant in Karachi with one of its latest 80-tonne cranes. “Working with Indus Toyota at this time is a positive step forward and is a good start to our presence in Pakistan and our expanding global operation,” said Thomas Descamps, managing director of Verlinde. “The Pakistan team has done a great job and we look forward to promoting not just the cranes we can supply, but the wide range of services we can offer this expanding marketplace.” These wide-ranging services include Chain Hoist, which is new from Pakistan and is a product in which Verlinde has direct expertise. The company is also able to supply the same equipment (including the ATEX explosion proof range) that customers in Pakistan are familiar with, and the liaison office continues to have rapid access to genuine Morris brand name spares for cranes, ensuring continuity of service for those customers. Visit: www.verlinde.com
CGGVeritas signs a fixed five-year marine charter agreement with BOURBON
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OURBON has announced the signing of a five-year marine charter agreement with CGGVeritas for six new seismic support and assistance vessels that will be delivered at the end of 2012. Following a tender procedure, BOURBON
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hoist used to sink the shaft and a second service hoist which will service the mine’s main operations to extract Éléonore’s significant gold resources. Gordon Scott, sales and marketing director at DavyMarkham, said: “The contract for Goldcorp Éléonore Project builds on our experience within the mining market, which is opening up more export opportunities within the Americas and other continents as explorations yield undiscovered mineral resources. Visit: www.davymarkham.com
Wärtsilä receives propulsion package orders for four new dredger vessels W
ärtsilä has been awarded a series of orders to supply propulsion solutions for dredger vessels to be built in China and the Netherlands. Since dredging applications are typically very demanding, the high reliability of the Wärtsilä solutions was a key element in the award of all three project orders. Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading systems integrator, will provide the engines and fixed pitch propellers (FPP) to Van Oord, the Netherlandbased dredging and marine contractor with global operations. The equipment installation is for the ‘Artemis’, the second of two large self propelled cutter suction dredgers being built for the company at the IHC Dredgers shipyard in Kinderdijk, the Netherlands. Two further orders have been received from Chinese companies. The Nantong Gangzha Shipping Manufacturing Co. Ltd shipyard has placed an order for two Wärtsilä 16V32 engines, propulsion equipment and systems for a hopper
dredger currently under construction. The Tianjin Dredging Company (TDC), part of the state-owned CCCC Group, has placed a propulsion package order with Wärtsilä for two dredgers being built at yards in China. Visit: www.wartsila.com
has decided to build these vessels at Grandweld Shipyards in Dubai. These vessels will be used to support the fleet of CGGVeritas seismic survey vessels operating all over the world, providing them with the requisite ancillary services including crew change, fuel delivery, storage, assistance and support during in-sea maintenance operations.
“We are delighted to have been chosen by CGGVeritas, which comes as further confirmation of BOURBON’s capacity to adapt to meet the needs of its clients,” announced Christian Lefèvre, CEO of BOURBON. “At the same time, this agreement emphasises BOURBON’s recognised expertise in the design and management of oil and gas marine services vessels.”
