{"id":4390,"date":"2017-09-08T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2017\/09\/08\/hurtigruten-owners-take-major-kleven-shareholding\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:35:46","slug":"hurtigruten-owners-take-major-kleven-shareholding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/ballast-water-management\/hurtigruten-owners-take-major-kleven-shareholding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurtigruten owners take major Kleven shareholding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ulsteinvik-based yard group is currently charged with building Hurtigruten\u2019s groundbreaking, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorship.com\/news101\/ships-and-shipyards\/the-new-norwegian-explorers\">hybrid-powered expedition cruise vessels<\/a> <em>Roald Amundsen<\/em> and <em>Fridtjof Nansen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis shows that the shipbuilding group is world class,\u201d said Daniel Skjeldam, CEO of Hurtigruten. \u201cNow we are strengthening Kleven, the region and Norwegian shipbuilding industry for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group of investors consists of InYard Invest, L\u00fcrssen Group, and Per Lilleb\u00f8. L\u00fcrssen \u2013 a leading superyacht builder and the new owner of Hamburg shipyard Blohm+Voss &#8211; recently entered into a long-term cooperation agreement with Kleven.<\/p>\n<p>Current owners John Kleven and H-Invest are also bringing new funds to the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been important for us to bring in new investors with an industrial, long-term perspective, and with a shared ambition to further develop Kleven to be a world leading shipbuilding group,&#8221; said Kjersti Kleven, chair of the board, Kleven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian ship operator Hurtigruten has taken a 40% stake in shipbuilding group Kleven during a refinancing process that has seen the addition of several investors bringing an extra NOK300 million (\u00a329.54 million) to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ballast-water-management"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","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=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4392,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}