Hitachi Wins Order for Service to Operate and Support Pumping Station in Egypt.Tokyo, Japan, Aug 24, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - Hitachi Operation & Maintenance-Egypt, S.A.E. announced on August 23 that it has signed a contract to operate and support the Mubarak pumping station in Egypt over a period of four years with the Egyptian Department of Machines and Electricity of Ministry of Water Resource Irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. . The company is a joint venture established by Hitachi (51%) and Egyptian maintenance service provider ICAT ICAT Isotope-Coded Affinity Tagging ICAT Intelligent Computer-Assisted Training ICAT International Centre for Automotive Technology (Gurgaon, India) ICAT International Convention Against Torture ICAT International Cat Agility Tournament (49%) in November 2004. The four-year contract is worth 1.8 billion yen ($16 mil). Located west of Lake Nasser Noun 1. Lake Nasser - lake in Egypt formed by dams built on the Nile River at Aswan Nasser Arab Republic of Egypt, Egypt, United Arab Republic - a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization , the Mubarak station is one of the world's largest pumping station with a water supply capacity of 334 tons per second. The joint venture is responsible for the operation and maintenance of irrigation plants in Egypt, and plans to expand its business to include maintenance services for facilities such as power plants as well as engineering training services. Source: JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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