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the company of Norwegian navigation Hurtigruten will become shareholder of the navalmeccanica society Kleven
In the shipbuilding company Norwegian crowns will be invested 300 million
September 12, 2017
The company of Norwegian navigation Hurtigruten and its owners, that is the Norwegian entrepreneur Petter Anker Stordalen and the London investment trust TDR Capital, will invest in the navalmeccanica society Norwegian Kleven, of which they will become the main shareholders.
Hurtigruten, Stordalen and TDR will have little more in fact of 40% of the capital of the shipbuilding society that will continue to being will be participated by John Kleven AS and H-Invest AS, that they are the current shareholders of the company and that they will introduce you new bottoms. The other shareholders of the Kleven will be the Norwegian investor Åge Remøy and Magnus Roth (InYard Invest) and For Lillebø and the navalmeccanico group German Lürssen, specialized in the construction of great yachts.
Altogether the investor will introduce in the Kleven new bottoms for 300 million Norwegian crowns (32 million euros).
Currently Kleven is constructing two cruise ships for shipments for the Hurtigruten, Roald Amundsen and the Fridtjof Nansen, units of 21 thousand tons of tonnage that will be long 140 meters, will be able to accommodate 530 passengers and will be completed respective in 2018 and 2019.
"Kleven - it has emphasized the managing director of the navigation company, Daniel Skjeldam - has been the best choice for the construction of our new ships for shipments. This evidences that the shipbuilding group is of world-wide level. Now we are strengthening the Kleven, the E region the Norwegian navalmeccanica industry in sight of the future and this affords an ulterior increase".
"For us - the president of the Kleven has asserted, Kjersti Kleven - it is important the contribution of new investor with an industrial vision of along term and with the shared ambition developing the Kleven ulteriorly in order to make of a primary world-wide group of shipbuilding".
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