Marine Harvest establishes wellboat company – Sunnmørsposten

There may have consequences for local wellboat company as salmon manufacturer operates today.

Marine Harvest rents currently 44 vessels, including well-boats, at a cost of around 100 million euros a year, according to the company.

John Fredriksen-controlled Deep Sea Supply in turn has some 40 offshore vessels. Now a joint venture do that both make money.

Building on offshore boats?

In a stock exchange announcement on Thursday morning would allow vacant offshore boats can be built on.

The two companies also believe that it is possible to build new service boats considerably cheaper, and also operate vessels cheaper than today. Many of the offshore vessels to Deep Sea Supply is redeveloped in China, shows an overview of the company.

Ilaks.no writes that the company will be called DESS Aquacutlure Shipping, and that the first well boat must be booked in June. The company will enter the market for both wellboats, slaughterhouse boats, work boats and fôrbåter.

On the Oslo Stock Exchange rose axes of Deep Sea Supply by about 50 percent in the hours after the news broke Thursday morning.

– Strong competition today

Brønnbåtservice the industry today is both fragmented and lacks competition, writes Marine Harvest in exchange message.

A well boat shipping companies such as Marine Harvest currently uses is Rostein on HARØY in Sandøy municipality. Competition in the market today is strong, they believe.

– Rostein have a good and long term cooperation with Marine Harvest. Our business operates in a highly competitive market and the contracting, wellboat industry doubles the capacity from 2013 to 2017. So regardless of ownership structures is Rostein prepared to do a superb job every day in the field for all its customers, in order to preserve their competitiveness, says Glen Bradley, vice president at Rostein to smp.no.

– Otherwise we rejoice that our new building “Ro Server” loaded its first salmon at Aqua Farms Vartdal last weekend, he adds. The new well boat, according to Bradley world’s first thermal treatment equipment, which means it can treat for lice without chemical treatment.