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OKP Holdings, the infrastructure and civil engineering firm, has secured its first contract win for the year — a $5.2 million contract from the Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) — for construction and maintenance works at Tuas South Avenue 12 and Tuas South Avenue 14 (Tuas View Extension - Phase 1)....

CWT says wholly-owned subsidiary, Indeco Engineers, has secured a contract with the Singapore Armed Forces to maintain military vehicles and equipment. The six-year contract for the maintenance services is estimated to be worth more than $30 million. The contract requires proactive engineering, maintenance and management services such as maintenance ...

Sinotel Technologies, the provider of wireless telecommunications infrastructure and solutions in China, says the group has successfully won a maintenance contract from state-owned China Telecom. The contract, whose value was not stated, requires Sinotel to provide maintenance services to 183 stations, consisting of repeaters and indoor wireless coverage systems in ...

Ezra Holdings, the support and marine services provider in the offshore oil & gas (O&G) sector, says it Deepwater Subsea division’s has clinched its first inspection, maintenance and repair contract worth US$12 million ($16.6 million). Under the contract, Ezra will provide inspection, maintenance and repair services to support subsea ...

Swiber Holdings, the construction and support services provider to the offshore oil and gas industry, has received a letter of award from a major oil company in South East Asia to provide underwater inspection, repair and maintenance services of major offshore facilities. The contract, worth US$75 million ($106 million) ...

ST Engineering says unit ST Aerospace, has renewed a maintenance contract with US Airways worth US$60 million ($82 million) over three years. Starting next January, the renewed contract will primarily cover heavy maintenance visits for US Airways’ fleet of Airbus A330 as well as Boeing 737, 757 and 767 ...

PortaOne launches an upgraded version of the company's telecommunication services and subscriber management platform for telephony service providers. - Communications infrastructure company PortaOne announced the release of PortaSwitch Maintenance Release 21, an updated version of the company's telecommunication services and subscriber management platform for telephony service providers. PortaSwitch MR21 is ...

ST Engineering says its aerospace arm, ST Aerospace, has secured a contract to provide airframe maintenance services for a major US airline worth about US$90 million ($125 million). The maintenance contract will include C checks and heavy maintenance visits for a fleet of Airbus A320 family aircraft and Boeing ...

SAP will delay increasing its customers' maintenance fees until early 2010 and assemble a task force to hear feedback from customers and user groups, in what could be seen as an acknowledgment of the pressures on businesses' IT budgets in a moribund global economy. In July 2008, SAP had announced ...

Hiap Seng Engineering has been awarded two three-year maintenance contracts by Shell Eastern Petroleum to provide the following integrated tank and mechanical maintenance services on Pulau Bukom, Singapore on a unit rate basis. The three-year contracts, with an option to extend for another two years, will start from Oct ...

HP is enhancing the security and maintenance capabilities to its Unix operating system, HP-UX 11i v3. Data center administrators can now add security patches to 100 servers at a time, and HP bulked up its access security through support for Bastille technology. The upgrades come as HP looks to entice ...

Trimming or even eliminating maintenance costs with hardware and software vendors during a recession is a normal trend. But what's the effect on IT staffs? It can create a negative work environment that is a breeding ground for poor morale and angry technicians and, worst of all, alienate those you ...

I’m not handy. I wish I were, sometimes – I’d love to craft a bookcase, patio bench, or computer hutch with my hands, or even fix a busted electrical outlet. But I can’t – somewhere along ...