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Team-up for Thrusters THREE-YEAR ARTECO DEVELOPED CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR THRUSTER SOLUTIONS by: SAMI J. ANTEROINEN photos: PIXABAY Through the ArTEco project (Arctic Thruster Ecosystem), European marine research institutes and companies, under the leadership of VTT and Wärtsilä, worked together to increase thruster lifetimes, decrease maintenance needs and boost over-all reliability – particularly in extreme conditions on arctic seas. seatec 1/2019 15