The German division of the TTS Group secured a contract to supply anchors and mooring winches for the 11 container vessels of 20,000TEU each on order at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME). TTS's Bremen-based company will manufacture the equipment at its Korean factory and deliver it to the yard over the next two years. The company also supplied similar equipment for the 20 original E-Class vessels delivered in 2014. Options for another six of the 400m long 58.6m beam ships are available, says Maersk. However, as a consequence of the challenging market situation in the offshore sector another subsidiary, TTS Offshore Solutions based in Norway, has decided to temporarily lay-off 40% of its staff, with 30 full-time workers laid off and another 20 contracted out to other TTS divisions. The laid off staff work mainly in Norway and Poland.
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