{"id":1699,"date":"2005-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2005\/03\/01\/wartsila-thrust-into-china\/"},"modified":"2005-03-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T00:00:00","slug":"wartsila-thrust-into-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2005\/03\/01\/wartsila-thrust-into-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Wartsila Thrust Into China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Government was asked to come to the aid of the US station on 20 December last year &#8211; the first time that such a request has been made since separate polar stations were established in the Antarctic in 1956. Normally, two US icebreakers, Polar Sea and Polar Star , deliver everything US polar explorers need for their daily life and research. However, Polar Sea recently had to undergo extensive repairs to a damaged screw propeller and the Polar Star did not have the capacity to lead relief ships through the 470 miles of ice unassisted.<\/p>\n<p>The venture brings Wartsila closer to its Asian customers as the focus of the world shipbuilding industry shifts to the region.<\/p>\n<p>MJ Information No: 20405<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland based marine engine and propulsion supplier Wartsila is investing ? 6.6 million to establish a tranverse thruster factory at Wuxi, near Shanghai in China. The wholly owned Wartsila Propulsion (Wuxi) Co Ltd will employ some 120 people producing LIPS brand thrusters for the global shipbuilding market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-deals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}