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In Lithuania Wärtsilä renders marine services to customers with full shipyard repair facilities in the Baltic region, including servicing of engines, reduction gears, propellers, and other mechanical ship equipment.
The company in Lithuania was founded in Klaipeda as a joint-venture set up between Wärtsilä and the Estonian BLRT Grupp. The joint-venture is owned 51% by Wärtsilä and 49% by the BLRT Grupp. The establishment of a service company is an inalienable part of Wärtsilä's strategy seeking to strengthen its service supplier position on the sea service market in the Baltic region.
The company started operations in April 2006 and now operates with an average of 70 employees and it has the facility to draw on the extensive resources of both Wärtsilä and the BLRT Grupp according to the needs of individual service jobs. The joint-venture seeks to bring significant benefits to the customers of both Wärtsilä and the BLRT Grupp as well as to the companies themselves.
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