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ACE Winches hosts delegation

from Singapore

facilitating the growth of local enterprises serving the needs
of the Marine and Offshore industry and the upstream

Oil and Gas industry. Through the interactions with their
industry partners, they have recognised the importance

of subsea technology and marginal ield development in
the upstream Oil and Gas industry, and have embarked on

various delegations to gain a deeper understanding of the

technological areas within the UKCS.
Discussions during the meeting were very much focused

Aon an engineering perspective with regards to the product
CE Winches, which designs, manufactures andand services that support the subsea sector. Part of the tour

hires winches and marine deck machinery, hosted a included the manufacturing and hire facilities, where they were
delegation from SPRING Singapore to its Towie Barclay shown equipment currently being engineered, assembled and

Works facility.commissioned for a range of international offshore projects.
The visit was to share with them an overview of its Hayley Yule, Marketing and Communications Director

products and services, including manufacturing, and at ACE Winches said: “ACE Winches is already supplying
engineering expertise which it applies to ensure that the equipment and personnel into Asia-Paciic, working with key

company continues to integrate innovative technological organisations like SPRING Singapore will help ACE Winches to
strengthen its connections with locally based companies who
advances across its product range.
Several delegates from the Marine and Offshore are sourcing back-deck equipment and solutions.”

Department in SPRING Singapore were welcomed to ACE Pictured are Yeoh Choon Jin, Head of Marine and
Winches global headquarters by key personnel during their Offshore, SPRING, Singapore; Ho Chi Bao, Director,

visit to the North East of Scotland.Manufacturing & Engineering and International Partnership
SPRING Singapore is a statutory board under the Ofice Asia Paciic, SPRING Singapore; Jasmine Pang,

Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, responsible Manager, Marine and Offshore. SPRING Singapore; Hayley
for helping Singapore enterprises grow. The Marine Yule, Marketing and Communications Director; John Jones,

and Offshore Department in SPRING is responsible forMiddle East and Caspian Sales Manager. u

Macgregor secures new deck

machinery contracts in China

M
acgregor, part of Cargotec, has MacGregor will supply a medium- excellent project management, aftersales

signed contracts with Chinese pressure 150-tonne capacity anchor services and support, making it the obvious
shipyard Guangzhou Shunhaihandling/towing winch, a tugger winch, choice for these projects,” said Terry

Shipyard to deliver anchor handling/ capstan and hydraulic power unit for Quinn, Shiptype Group Sales Manager,
towing winch packages for ive 48m each of the 48m AHTS vessels and a MacGregor Offshore Deck Machinery.

anchor handling tug supply vessels and 100-tonne capacity anchor handling/ Delivery of the irst vessel is planned

one 40m AHTS vessel.towing winch, a tugger winch, capstan for December 2015 and subsequent
The vessels are under construction and hydraulic power unit for the 40m deliveries are planned at intervals up

for an undisclosed Middle East owner AHTS vessel.to the third quarter of 2016. All will be
and the order was booked into the third “The yard already has experience employed in anchor handling and towing

quarter 2015 order intake.of MacGregor’s high quality products,operations in Middle East waters. u

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