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Europe, Asia, Russia

                                                                                         Perpetuum Mobile has been on the market for
                                                                                      more than twenty years and has gained a reputation
                                                                                      as a reliable supplier of package solutions for differ-
                                                                                      ent types of ships. Its line of shipboard equipment in-
                                                                                      cludes 23 MW main engines, 10 MW auxiliary and
                                                                                      emergency diesel generators, electric motors, shaft-
                                                                                      driven generators, shafting lines, reverse-reduction
                                                                                      gears, rudder propellers, steering and propulsive sys-
                                                                                      tems, couplings, pumping units and motor pumps.
                                                                                      All products have been certified by the Russian Clas-
                                                                                      sification Society and the Russian Maritime Register
                                                                                      of Shipping.
                                                                                         Oleg Batygin, Perpetuum Mobile, Director Gen-
                                                                                      eral:
                                                                                         “We have a long history as an authorized distribu-
                                                                                      tor of European and Asian marine equipment brands.
                                                                                      The Russia sanctions have hit hard: last year, in order
                                                                                      to be able to continue to supply to our customers, we
                                                                                      were forced to rebuild logistics and create alternative
                                                                                      scenarios. We continue to work officially with manu-
                                                                                      facturers in Japan, China and South Korea, supplying
                                                                                      their products to the Russian market.”
                                                                                         Alongside being a supplier, Perpetuum Mobile op-
                                                                                      erates an extended network of authorized service cen-
                                                                                                          ters, providing maintenance
                                                                                                          and all required spare parts
                                                                «Перпетуум-мобиле»                        and components. The com-
                                                                предлагает не только                      pany has expertise to pro-
                                                                                                          vide package solutions in
                                                                поставки оборудования,                    the field of energy supply,
                                                                но и его обслуживание                     and some of the technolo-
                                                                через развитую сеть                       gies it supplies to ships use
                                                                                                          components of its own man-
                                                                авторизованных сервисных                  ufacture.
                                                                центров                                      Oleg Batygin:
                                                                                                             “Our initial line of prod-
                                                                Alongside being a supplier,               ucts included diesel gen-
                                                                Perpetuum Mobile operates an              erators of diverse capacity
                                                                extended network of authorized            range.  Today,  after  the sit-
                                                                service centers, providing                uation with sanctions has
                                                                                                          had its effect, we are look-
                                                                maintenance                               ing to increase the number
                                                                                                          of components we can pro-
                                                                                                          duce ourselves, since some
                                                                                      of them can, indeed, be manufactured here as a more
                                                                                      cost-effective way and with no detriment to quality.
                                                                                      During this past year, we have established the pro-
                                                                                      duction of wet exhaust systems for diesel generators,
                                                                                      radiators, exhaust tanks, as well as sensors and con-
                                                                                      trol systems that are not inferior in quality to their
                                                                                      imported counterparts.”

                                                                                         Projects and challenges
                                                                                         Perpetuum Mobile’s production premises are
                                                                                      based in Moscow and Kaluga Oblast. All items of the
                                                                                      product line have RCS and RMRS certificates. The
                                                                                      company supplies to more than 60 shipyards, major
                                                                                      shipowners, and government services. Its current or-
                                                                                      ders include sets of equipment for four ice-reinforced
                                                                                      passenger ships, which are currently being built at
                                                                                      Arkhangelsk’s Krasnaya Kuznitsa ship repair facility.
                                                                                         “The equipment we produce is used in the con-
                                                                                      struction and conversion of vessels of various types,”
                                                                                      says Oleg Batygin. “We partner the yards in Yaro-
                                                                                      slavl, Kostroma, and Nizhny Novgorod, and coop-
                                                                                      erate with some of the USC member companies and
                                                                                      leading design bureaus. Many projects these days deal
                                                                                      mostly with modernization. Having sufficient com-
                                                                                      petence in equipping different types of ships, we are
                                                                                      well aware of customers needs and can now come up
                                                                                      with our own offers. We have set up an in-house de-
                                                                                      sign bureau to support the ship modernization proj-
                                                                                      ects we’re engaged in.”
                                                                                         This year Perpetuum Mobile engineers have com-
                                                                                      pleted the development of a dry cargo and container
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