STX Europe’s shipyard has taken a strategically important position in the Asian market for offshore vessels. With an investment in excess of $30 million, located in the heart of Vietnam’s growing offshore operations, the new yard in Vung Tau will strengthen STX Europe`s ability to serve its international customers in the region, said the company in a statement.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the launch, Knut Ola, Chairman of STX Vietnam Offshore, said: \u201cThe establishment of the shipyard and the building of the first vessel were completed ahead of schedule at a record speed. We started early in January 2007 and I am very pleased to see the result from the Vietnam team who has managed a challenging project of building a vessel and simultaneously having the yard constructed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis first vessel, named Skandi Emerald<\/em>, is the first in a series of six advanced anchor handling tug supply vessels. Skandi Emerald<\/em>, owned by Aker DOF Deepwater, will be servicing anchor handling operations and take on transportation of general cargo for the offshore industry,\u201d said Ola.<\/p>\n The STX Vietnam Offshore shipyard will, when fully operational, reach a capacity of four medium size vessels per year. The company asserts that Vietnam offers a combination of cost efficient production, highly skilled workforce and proximity to the important and growing Asian offshore market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STX Europe officially launched its shipyard in Vung Tau, Vietnam, on the occasion of the naming of the first vessel to be built there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}