In the 2012 DNV it has increased the revenues and maintained to the results online with those of the exercise precedence



The society of classification and Norwegian certification Det Norske Veritas (DNV) has closed the exercise anniversary 2012 with an important increment of the turnover (+26.5%) that 1,7 billion euros) regarding 10,2 billion crowns in the year are gone up to 12,8 billion crowns (precedence. Of the percentage of increase of the revenues, 9% are of organic character and 18% deriving from the acquisition of Dutch KEMA capacity to term in March 2012 ( on 23 December 2011). The operating profit is piled to 1,0 billion crowns (- the 1.4%) and profit to clearly 719 million crowns (- 1.5%).

In the naval field, last year DNV has made sure 316 contracts of classification in the field of the new constructions of ships and offshore unit (278 in 2011), for a total of 8,8 million tons of tonnage (12,0 million tsl in 2011). The consistency of the fleet in class DNV is come down from 6.134 ships and offshore unit at the end of 2011 to 6.115 on December 31, 2012. The Norwegian group has specified that this decrease has had mainly to the effect of the demolitions in the naval section.

"Currently - the managing director of DNV, Henrik O. Madsen has commented - the field of the marine transports is not recording altogether an increase. It is still suffering because of the excess of ability to tonnage and the limited development of the economy and the world-wide exchanges. This - according to Madsen - will one or two influence the market of shipping for others the years".

"DNV - it has continued the CEO of the Norwegian society - continues to invest in research & development in order to offer to innovative solutions for a marine transport with a minor environmental impact and more efficient from the point of view of the consumption. Currently this is the maximum priority for the shipowning companies, that they must tackle to high prices of the fuel and Maritime inferior hires while the International Organization introduces new and advance standards in environmental field".

"Explaining that, on the contrary of the shipping, the industry of the oil and the gas is recording a strong increase and investments record, Madsen has specified that "currently the direct revenues of DNV deriving from the activities in the field of the oil and the gas are almost the same ones of the revenues generated from the services for the marine transport. The levels of activity in the field of the oil and the gas, that it is constituted also by the segments of the shipping offshore and the which liquified natural gas transport, detach which two of the little segments of the shipping that last year they have given good results. This - it has concluded Madsen - has contributed to do so as that in 2012 our activity in the marine field it has produced to good results although the limited total development in the section of the shipping".