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wiredInUSA - November 2013 41 ASIA / AFRICA NEWS
Subsea cable installation companies
Global Marine Systems and PT Ketrosden
Triasmitra are to form a joint venture
to provide subsea cable engineering
and installation services to the
telecommunications and oil and gas
industries in the Indonesian market.
The partnership between the two
companies will see the installation of
over 600km of cable this year as they
collaborate on the Luwuk-Tutuyan and
Jambi-Batam submarine cable projects.
They will install a further projected 2,000km
during 2014.
The joint venture will own and operate
cabotage compliant vessels and provide
feasibility studies, marine surveys, shallow
and deep water installations and burial
solutions.
Triasmitra founder and chief executive
officer Ketut Romadhi said: “Global
Marine, with its unparalleled history in the
provision of services to the submarine
cable industry, is the ideal partner to
expand our expertise and quality of
service for our customers in Indonesia.”
Subsea joint
venture
Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines have
announced an agreement to double wire
harness production at Ethiopian Airlines’
wire harness facility in Addis Ababa. The
agreement was signed at the Corporate
Council on Africa’s 9th biennial US-Africa
business summit in Chicago, designed
to develop closer business relationships
between African and US industries.
The Ethiopian Airlines facility currently
supplies seat-to-seat wire harnesses for all
Boeing commercial airplane programs.
Following the announcement, Boeing
and Ethiopian Airlines will place additional
work at the facility to manufacture more
varied and complex wire harnesses and so
expand its value as an aerospace supplier.
Also in 2012, Ethiopian Airlines’ facility was
recognized by Boeing for its outstanding
performance and awarded a gold rating in
Boeing’s performance excellence awards
– the highest rating a Boeing supplier can
achieve.
Airlines expand wire
harness production