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The company of Norwegian navigation Hurtigruten buys the ship yard Kleven Verft
The plant Myklebust Verft will remain of property of the Kleven group
June 11, 2018
The company of Norwegian navigation Hurtigruten, than the slid one they have acquired a participation in the navalmeccanica society Kleven(on 12 September 2017), it has bought, through Holding KVE AS, 100% of the capital stock of the Kleven Verft, the society of the Kleven group that manages the homonymous Norwegian ship yard that has center to Ulsteinvik. The acquisition includes the Kleven Maritime Maritime Contracting AS and the Kleven Technology AS, while the other societies of the Kleven group, between which the ship yard Myklebust Verft, they do not take part of the transaction with Hurtigruten.
"This - the managing director of the Norwegian group Kleven has commented, Karsten Sævik - represents an optimal solution who gives the force to us to more concentrate on the construction of some of the ships advanced the world to us and to prepare Kleven for the future. This guarantees the places of work of that which it is a fundamental company for Ulsteinvik and is part very important of the marine cluster of Sunnmøre".
Remembering that the navalmeccanico group has been object of an important restructure in September 2017, that it has involved exactly the income as associate of the Hurtigruten, the Kleven group it has specified that the increase of the correlated costs to various projects in existence in the yards has returned the finding of ulterior liquidity necessary and that the new announced solution today assures ulterior resources that they can reach 600 million Norwegian crowns (63 million euros) through the contribution of the associates, the customers and the financial institutions.
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