AviTrader MRO - September 2018 23 B ack in May, aviation consultancy firm IBA reflected on the overall stability of the engine market and flagged some strengthening market values for engines indirectly impacted by recent engine EIS issues IBA highlighted growing aware- ness that some operators are extending existing leases on current engine options and this is keeping values buoyant whilst new gen- eration technology enters the market IBA also sees stronger short- term lease rates for the CFM56-5B/-7B due to tightening availability of supply and increased shop visits As with last year, the CFM56-5B/-7B and the V2500-A5 engines are still experiencing frequent trades and stable values with demand expected to grow as more engines are removed for maintenance Due to the supply, demand and ease of access to credit, IBA have seen investors buying up surplus engines and parts, resulting in artificial value inflation “CFM56-5B/-7B short-term lease rates are also stronger than in the past two years, driven by shop visits and re- duced availability of spare parts,” said Kane Ray, Head Analyst - Commercial En- gines at IBA At Stavanger-based Aero Norway, the company uses modern equipment and inte- grated technologies to ensure the engineering capabilities to cope with increased demand “In addition, our ERP system, combined with planning tools and the focus on streamlined paperless processes, keeps us organised and operating at maxi- mum lean efficiency,” declares Rune Veenstra, Chief Business Of- ficer – Aero Norway The company presently operates a 2-shift system with 155 employees, “we are forecast to ship 84 engines in 2018 and have the investment and structure in readiness for future growth,” he adds The AJW Group is actively buying engines to meet the demand for USM from these engine variants, states Ian Malin, the Chief Invest- ment Officer “Admittedly, it’s presently difficult to source engines at realistic prices to satisfy the demand that is expected to increase due to a shortage of engines and material on the market,” he observes Over the past 12 months, AJW have bought several both unserviceable and serviceable -5B and -7B engines specifically to address this The unserviceable engines go right into tear down to be sold through AJW’s Parts, Sales and Support (“PS&S”) division The serviceable engines are part of AJW Leasing’s broader strategy to establish a pipeline of product supply AJW Leas- ing burns off the greentime in the engines by providing the AJW Group’s customers short term engine leasing support “Once an engine reaches its cycle limit, it is then given to the PS&S division for disas- sembly and third-party sales Investors buying up surplus engines and parts for the CFM56. Photo: Magnetic MRO CFM56 overview The CFM56 is the most popular engine flying today Keith Mwanalushi looks closer at the leasing market and maintenance trends for the powerplant Rune Veenstra, Chief Business Officer at Aero Norway Delivering power Ian Malin Chief Investment Officer, AJW Group.

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EWIS Krakow 2019 | Call for Papers | Workshop, 26-29 June 2019

Rethinking the Sea in IR: Space, Time, Politics & Change

Convenors: Benjamin de Carvalho, NUPI ([email protected]) Halvard Leira, NUPI ([email protected])

Submission deadline: 13 January 2019

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Rationale and Background | While the world’s oceans cover more than 70% of its surface, the space of the sea has today largely vanished as an object worthy of enquiry in IR, being treated either as a corollary of landed politics or as time. Few theoretical statements take the sea into account, and if sea power figures into the equation it is either treated as land power, its extension, or, seen as operating along the same logic. For the most part, the sea is ignored or obliterated as a transport leg, or a neutral conduit for imperial expansion; counted as time rather than analyzed as space. The space of the sea has collapsed into time. Yet this was not always so – nor does it necessarily hold true today. The aim of the workshop is to bring the sea back into International Relations (IR) – not only as travel time, but as a social, political, economic and military space (or variable) which affects the workings of world politics.

Save for a few exceptions (e.g. Steinberg 2001), on the whole the sea is seen as an extension of land, and sea power and auxiliary of or conduit for land power. But ocean space is not homogenous and far from neutral, as different ocean spaces are constructed as distinct spaces allowing different practices (ibid.). Recent scholarship has also moved towards historicizing the sea (e.g. Paine 2013). Some of this builds on Michel Foucault’s (1965) argument that modern knowledge is overly landed; having done away with the sea as a lived experience, the impact of the sea on land has also been erased from knowledge and our accounts of history. Yet modalities of sea power have fluctuated over time, as have their legal boundaries. Following recent calls to rethink the role of the sea the workshop seeks papers which set out to critically analyze seas and oceans as deeply political and historical spaces “whose transformative power,” as Klein and Mackethun (2004) have reminded us, is “material and very real.”

Practical information | We welcome papers dealing with all aspects of the sea in/for International Relations – in historical and contemporary perspective – and from a plurality of methods and theoretical outlooks. | Based on the workshop, our aim is the publication of an edited volume on the sea and IR in 2020. | The workshop is organized by the EMPRISE Project. The project is able to cover some costs associated with meals in Krakow, as well as funding limited upwards to EUR 200 per participant in order to alleviate the cost of travel and accommodation.

Possible topics | • The sea as limit and opportunity • Oceanic regions • Oceans and resources • Violence at sea • Imaginings of the sea • Theorizing maritime spaces • The sea in political theorizing • The sea as the other of political life • The law of the sea, or no law at sea? • Mapping maritime spaces • The maritime dimensions of states and empires • Combatting piracy • The rise of navies • Life at sea • A world of ports • Maritime networks and connectivities • Maritime trade • Privateering • From sail to steam and beyond • The sea in popular culture