\u201cWe are very pleased to have signed this agreement which opens up the opportunity for cooperation between two long and successful shipbuilding traditions. Kleven is recognized throughout the world as a Norwegian shipyard with first-class references and design knowledge, especially when it comes to equipment for complex ships. I am most pleased that Brodosplit, which we managed to place extremely well in the segment for the construction of medium-sized and expeditionary ships, has found a business partner with whom they will be able to achieve top results,\u201d said Tomislav Debeljak, owner and CEO of DIV Group.<\/p>\n
Kleven Verft\u2019s workforce has also developed considerable experience in the construction of complex medium sized ships during the construction of Hurtigruten\u2019s hybrid battery-powered cruise vessels.<\/p>\n
Kleven\u2019s CFO, Ola Beinnes Fosse, identified complementary skills between the shipyards, as well as DIV Group\u2019s financial resources and pipeline of potential projects as advantages for the combined group.<\/p>\n
Mr Debeljak expects the new group to achieve reduced construction costs and significantly lower costs to finance new projects. \u201cThe total savings could amount to 5%, which will not only improve our profitability, but also our competitiveness when we contract and build complex medium-sized vessels.<\/p>\n
Kleven Verft’s managing director, Kjetil Bollestad, oversaw the introduction of a new company structure, New Kleven, in September 2019.<\/p>\n
Kleven had anticipated a slowdown in orders in 2020, once work on the second of Hurtigruten\u2019s new class of polar cruise vessels, Fridtjof Nansen<\/em>, is completed in early 2020. The yard has an order for an innovative low emission trawler conversion for Nordnes Group and a barge for Boa Barges AS in hand.<\/p>\n DIV Group is involved in shipbuilding and ship repair and also has wider metal processing and manufacturing expertise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Norway\u2019s Hurtigruten has agreed to sell Norwegian shipyard Kleven Verft to Croatia\u2019s DIV Group, owner of Brodosplit. The companies expect to finalise the deal in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vessels-shipyards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}