ABB opens service station in Malta

ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has inaugurated a new ABB turbocharging service station in Malta in keeping with its philosophy of providing technical and product support services wherever the customer needs them. The ABB turbocharging network offers local support in more than 90 locations worldwide.

ABB chose Malta primarily for the strategic advantages it offers. Its geographical location at the heart of ABB customers' marine operations and at the crossroads of major shipping lanes in the Mediterranean, identified Malta as the ideal base for a new ABB turbocharging service centre.

The Malta base allows ABB to improve its existing support services to the long-established Maltese ship repair industry, already renowned for the high level of expertise and repair facilities available to ship owners and marine operators, ABB said.

ABB has recognised the advantages of Malta's pool of technically skilled and qualified, dedicated and reliable, multi-lingual human resources.

ABB Marine and Turbocharging is not new to Malta: it serves several local end-user customers including Gozo Channel, Virtu Ferries, Tankship Management and services ship repair customers like Malta Shipyards, Bezzina Ship Repair, Cassar Ship Repair.

Among its foreign clients calling at Malta are leading cruise lines, such as Costa Crociere, Pullmantur, MSC, Holland American Line; Container Lines including CMA CGM, MSC Containers, and Maersk, among others, that call at the Malta Freeport, or anchor on Herd's Bank and tankers owned by V-Ships, Hanseatic Shipping and others.

ABB Turbocharging has expressed its gratitude to Malta Enterprise for its business support services.

ABB Turbocharging is a business unit of ABB Process Automation division. ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact.

The ABB Group, with headquarters in Zurich, operates in around 100 countries and employs about 115,000 people.