History and background
YIT Marine is provider of large integrated electrical systems through electro-technical and monitoring solutions for the maritime industry. YIT Marine is a department established in 1982 within YIT A/S - the Danish part of the YIT Group, which is a large Finnish company with more than 100 years of history and currently 25,000 employees in 14 countries. The YIT Group has two different divisions: Construction services and Building services. YIT Marine has traditionally made most business on new-builds with the shipyards as main customers. After the closure of Danish OSS shipyard in Lindø, YIT Marine flipped its business towards after-sales with the shipowners as its main customer. The company is taking advantages of its previous close relationship with shipyards, offering highly skilled consultancy and a wide range of retrofit solutions.
Product and service portfolio
As provider of integrated electrical systems, YIT Marine is the link between a large number of products on the ship, as almost all products are part of an electrical installation that needs power and cabling. The company has therefore extensive knowledge and expertise in installing, testing and starting up many of these products, as the company is usually involved during the new-build process. An average container ship has 2,000 km of cabling, which reveals the complexity and importance of its systems. A sample of the major electrical components that are often installed in ships includes: switchboards, control consoles, converters, alarm systems and networks, which is where the main expertise lays. YIT Marine does not manufacture any of its own products, but is mainly a design and sales house of these. The department also provides spare parts to other installed products outside its own systems. YIT Marine offers service technicians for a broad range of system failures, through different services, such as regular maintenance, repair and troubleshooting.
Business presence and service stations
YIT Marine is located in Fredericia, Denmark, with a service technician network spread throughout Europe, in a number of different regions: Nordic countries, Baltic countries, Russia and Germany. YIT Marine has approximately 30 marine technicians that travel overseas.
Business competitiveness
In the context of the transmission of main business contact from shipyards to shipowners YIT Marine is in a privileged position, as the company can facilitate this change for other companies, due to the central role of its electrical systems. Regarding service potential, the company has worked with 180 new-builds, having therefore a fair amount of installed base to target. YIT Marine central position as power structure provider on the ship can also be used to lead collaboration between suppliers, such as the utilisation of its expertise when contacted in connection to a system break-down, whereby the company can act as a consultancy, screening and advising what kind of system to purchase.
Motivation to participate in PROTEUS
YIT Marine’s motivation lies within the possibility to create a close collaboration with the suppliers in connection to commissioning of new-builds, and in any repair jobs, being a troubleshooter across PROTEUS companies. YIT Marine has also expressed an interest to create shared service centres, where the company could bring its system integration competences.