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WORKBOAT ANNUAL

BOATBUILDING

Q. There’s a bottleneck of wind proj- ects going on. We’re very involved with A. It was three years ago, and I started t Q. What are your goals this year? ects in Norway. Would you be ready customers on a new W2W design. With here alone in Stavanger, and now we Next? How hard is it going to be? to offer grid builders a range of ves- wind farms it’s no longer just shallow have expanded to four people. It fact sels should the project count suddenly water. Statoil’s HyWind project is in we’re growing motstrøm: We’re going A: We’re not so vulnerable as other increase? deeper water. The turbines ? oat. That against the current here. As people are yards. Maybe 15 percent of our business opens another market for Heavy Lift being laid off we’re adding those lost is oil-and-gas-related, and we have a €2

A. Well, we have the walk-to-work T&I vessels like those we built for Jum- by others. They are people dedicated to billion yearly turnover. We expect to vessel. If you want go out to the 25 nau- bo Offshore. sales of news boats and to repair. When deliver 275 ships this year. When times tical mile range, then you want to stay I started here, it was high times offshore, are really good and everyone’s build- out there because you don’t have boats and we had a lot of focus on oil and gas. ing ships, and there’s construction, no going in and out by the day. You need Q. What obstacles, if any, has your To break into that market is very dif? - one will talk to me! Now, the oil price larger vessels. We’re very aware of those sales organization met entering the cult. There are a lot of old, existing re- is down, and people have time to talk. tenders (for larger vessels) and the proj- Norwegian market? lationships. Every disadvantage has an advantage!

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