{"id":21722,"date":"2025-11-03T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcargoglobal.com\/?p=21722"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:18:44","slug":"abl-france-announces-key-team-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcargoglobal.com\/?p=21722","title":{"rendered":"ABL France announces key team appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABL France is pleased to announce two strategic team appointments, reinforcing its leadership and specialised expertise in supporting French offshore wind and floating wind transport & installation (T&I) projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABL France is delighted to announce the appointment of Maxime Pottier as Head of the Marine Warranty Survey (MWS) Team.<\/p>\n

Maxime joined ABL France in April 2024 as Principal Naval Architect and MWS Project Manager, bringing over 17 years of experience as a Marine Warranty Surveyor and Marine Engineer in France and internationally. His career spans major offshore installation projects in France, Angola, Norway, and the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n

Since joining ABL, Maxime has led MWS missions on French offshore wind farms, consistently demonstrating technical excellence and strong leadership. In his new role, Maxime will lead the MWS France team, ensuring a safety and quality-first approach, while exploring innovative solutions to deliver added value for clients\u2019 offshore wind and floating wind projects.<\/p>\n

ABL France also welcomes Kevin Vincent to the Owner\u2019s Engineer team as Senior Transport & Installation Engineer.<\/p>\n

With more than a decade of experience in the offshore wind and oil & gas sectors, Kevin has worked as a T&I engineer, project engineer, operations engineer, project manager, and commercial engineer. His expertise covers offshore wind T&I, floating wind technology, and marine engineering in France.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining ABL, Kevin worked extensively in the floating wind turbine sector, including as Lead T&I Engineer for the EFGL project and Senior T&I Engineer for BlueFloat Energy and Principal Power.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese appointments reflect our ongoing commitment to providing the best technical offering to our clients across the marine and offshore renewables space in France, as well as to support projects in Iberia and Benelux countries. Kevin and Maxime bring exception experience in offshore wind T&I and engineering, including highly specialised expertise in floating wind. I am very pleased to welcome them both into their new roles.\u201d Fabien Thomas, Country Manager, ABL France.<\/p>\n

ABL France is part of the Oslo-listed global consultancy in energy and oceans, ABL Group.<\/p>\n

 
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ABL France is pleased to announce two strategic team appointments, reinforcing its leadership and specialised expertise in supporting French offshore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[1455],"class_list":["post-21722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-abl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPyrk-5Em","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21040,"url":"https:\/\/projectcargoglobal.com\/?p=21040","url_meta":{"origin":21722,"position":0},"title":"ABL appoints Carmela Friedman","author":"Project Cargo Global","date":"August 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"ABL, the global energy and marine consultancy, is proud to announce the promotion of Carmela Friedman to Director of Renewables for its operations in England. 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