Royal Imtech has received new marine services and maintenance orders worth approximately 82 million euro. In its marine activities Imtech is focusing on for instance growth in services and maintenance and expansion of the number of services branches along important shipping routes. A Global Control Centre has been established to follow vessels remotely 24/7.
René van der Bruggen, CEO Imtech; 'In the marine market, Imtech is working towards strategic growth in its services and maintenance activities and a strong expansion of the number of services branches along important shipping routes. These services branches now offer Imtech's entire marine services package. A new development is following vessels remotely, 24/7.'
Over 100 Branches
The company's marine services activities are developing well. The number of services branches has expanded considerably in 2012 including opening branches in Brazil, Spain, Scotland, Belgium, the USA (there are now seventeen service branches there), China and along the west coast of Africa (including Nigeria, Angola, Ghana, Congo, Gabon and Kenya) and the company can also provide marine services along the African west coast. A services site was also opened recently in St Petersburg in Russia, bringing the service network to almost one hundred branches.
Other Solutions
In addition to marine services, these new branches offer other technical solutions. Developments in China are a good example of this, with orders for various automated bridge systems, including for Cosco Nantong. The number of marine maintenance contracts is also increasing, with maintenance contracts recently being entered with various ship management companies and navies.
Global Control Centre
The new Global Control Centre offers remote marine services 24/7. This competence centre, manned from Rotterdam, Houston (USA) and Singapore, can follow shipping movements globally and enables Imtech to provide actual 24/7 services in all time zones across the world. This remote maintenance leads to exploitation improvements as well as making business intelligence and data management possible. The digital platform offers customers the possibility of accessing vessel data while vessels are underway. In the future it will be possible to exchange this data with vessel movement data in ports.
