Havila Shipping

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Havila Shipping ASA
legal form ASA
founding 2003
Seat Fosnavåg
management Njål Sævik
Website www.havila.no

Havila Shipping ASA is a Norwegian shipping company based in Fosnavåg in the western Norwegian municipality of Herøy in Fylke Møre og Romsdal . It is part of the Havila Group .

history

The shipping company was founded in 2002 and has been listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange since 2005 . Havila Shipping owned 23 special vessels at the end of 2017, including supply vessels for oil drilling platforms and work vessels for the oil industry.

Hurtigruten

A subsidiary, Havila Kystruten AS , is to provide four of the eleven ships required for the daily journeys of the Norwegian postal service Hurtigruten from 2021 . Two ships, the Havila Polaris and the Havila Pollux , were ordered from the Hijos de J. Barreras shipyard in Vigo . They should cost around 200 million euros per ship, have a capacity for 700 passengers and run on LNG and batteries. In September 2018, two more ships were ordered from Tersan Shipyard, the Havila Capella and the Havila Castor .

Construction at the Barreras shipyard was suspended in August 2019 due to various problems. In November 2019, the shipyard terminated the construction contracts.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Fleet. Havila Shipping, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  2. Bjørnar Torvholm Sævik: Per Sævik blir hurtigruteeigar. Vestlandsnytt, March 23, 2018, accessed October 25, 2018 (Norwegian).
  3. Havila Poised to Build Two LNG Cruise Vessels at Barreras. Cruise Industry News, August 6, 2018, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  4. Tersan Shipyard (Turkey) is building two ships for the new Hurtigruten shipping company (Havila Kystruten). Ships and Cruises, September 10, 2018, accessed September 11, 2018 .
  5. Havila Chooses Names for Its Green Ships. World Maritime News, November 28, 2018, accessed March 20, 2019 .
  6. Barreras Facing Challenges with Havila Project. Cruise Industry News, August 16, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  7. Struggling Barreras Cancels Havila newbuilds. Cruise Industry News, November 28, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .
  8. Barreras Shipyard Insolvency Looming. Cruise Ship Portal, October 7, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .