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Tuesday, October 3, 2006
• MacGREGOR signs offshore orders worth approximately euros 60 million During August and September, MacGREGOR’s new Offshore division won orders totalling approximately euros 60 million for equipment to be delivered during 2008-2010 Significant offshore equipment orders recently signed by the MacGREGOR Group’s Offshore division ?" part of the Cargotec Corporation ?" include the single biggest order in the history of the newly acquired Norwegian company Hydramarine AS. This is for six cranes for two 130m Vik Sandvik VS4220 offshore construction barges being built at Davie Yards in Canada for Norwegian independent subsea installation contractor Cecon. MacGREGOR’s order comprises: two knuckle-boom offshore cranes with Active Heave Compensation (AHC) systems; two knuckle-boom offshore/subsea cranes; and two deck cranes. The cranes will be manufactured by Hydramarine AS in Kristiansand, Norway, and delivery is planned for 2009. The value of this order is approximately euros 15 million. Another major order came from Nam Cheong Dockyard in East Malaysia, specifying four shipsets of MacGREGOR Plimsoll deck machinery for offshore accommodation work barges and four shipsets of deck machinery for offshore maintenance work vessels. The value of this order is approximately euros 8 million and the equipment will be manufactured in Asia by MacGREGOR Plimsoll and is planned to be delivered in 2008/2009. For further information, please contact: Henrik Vildenfeldt, General Manager, Offshore division, MacGREGOR (DNK) A/S Tel: +45 44 544 747 Fax: +45 44 538 410 E-mail: henrik.vildenfeldt@macgregor-group.com • MacGREGOR BLRT Baltic OÜ becomes operative on 01.10.2007 The MacGREGOR Group ?" part of Cargotec Corporation ?" and the BLRT Grupp AS, based in Tallinn, have announced a new joint venture to service marine cargo access equipment in the Baltic area. The new company is called MacGREGOR BLRT Baltic OÜ, and becomes operational on 1 October 2007. Since its start-up in 2000, MacGREGOR’s Tallinn office has been operating as the official registered representative office of MacGREGOR (FIN) Oy in Tallinn, Estonia, and from now on it will operate as a new MacGREGOR Service division branch office. MacGREGOR BLRT Baltic OÜ will strengthen the delivery of MacGREGOR products and services in the growing markets of the Baltic, especially in the BLRT Grupp shiprepair yards in Tallinn (Tallinn Shipyard) and Klaipeda (Western Shipyard). The joint venture ?" in which Cargotec holds a 51 per cent share ?" operates as one MacGREGOR branch in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. It will provide MacGREGOR equipment services and parts in the region, with service offices in Tallinn Shipyard and later also in Western Shipyard. The new joint venture starts in Tallinn with MacGREGOR’s current personnel and will later expand to Klaipeda with a local site office. In MacGREGOR’s Tallinn office, all our contact details, company address, company and personnel phone numbers and e-mail addresses remain unchanged, only the official company name has changed, along with related registration and VAT codes. Our clients are warmly invited to contact us about any cargo access equipment service and spare part needs which may occur. We will do our best to serve your company and fleet needs as well as possible. For our clients, there are no changes related to ordering MacGREGOR services or spare parts. All you need to do is to contact MacGREGOR’s Tallinn office for any service or spare part you need. New company details: MacGREGOR BLRT Baltic OÜ 103 Kopli Street 11712 Tallinn Estonia Tel: +372 6 102 200 Fax: + 372 6 102 400 www.macgregor-group.com Registered office in Tallinn, Estonia, Reg.No. 11400694 VAT No. EE101166241 For further information please contact: Kimmo Huhtala Branch & Sales Manager, Baltic Countries, MacGREGOR Service Division Managing Director, MacGREGOR BLRT Baltic OÜ Mobile: +372 5094 868 (EST), Mobile: +358 40 5014 981 (FIN) e-mail: kimmo.huhtala@macgregor-group.com or MacGREGOR Group press office: Mr Steve Labdon, MacGREGOR Group Media Representative Tel: +44 (0)20 8370 1740 Fax: +44 (0)20 8364 1331 E-mail: steve.labdon@j-l-a.com