Ship Equip wins contract in Shanghai
The opening of the Ship Equip Shanghai Office in 2010 has proved successful with the first contract earlier this year with Ningbo HaiZhiXing Ocean Fishery.
The company Ningbo HaiZhiXing Ocean Fishery Co,. Ltd., is a Ministry of Agriculture qualified large-scale offshore fishing enterprise that owns 16 professional offshore squid fishing vessels, and has six more being built. HaiZhiXing operates in high seas of the Southeast Pacific (Peru), North Pacific and Southwest Atlantic (Argentina). It is Ship Equip’s first deal in the Chinese market and the SEVSAT system is to be installed on Ningbo HaiZhiXing fishing vessel HaiZhiXing 805. Subsequently the system is scheduled to be installed on all HaiZhiXing’s newbuilds.
“The contract is important for many reasons,” says chief sales executive, Gilles A. Gillesen. “We have seen the huge potential in the Chinese market and we were aiming for a quick acceptance and that is what we got. It has been reassuring to discover that this market is similar to our existing markets in adopting our maritime high speed broadband solution SEVSAT. As long as you understand and adapt to the Chinese culture the product stands on its own.”
