{"id":7519,"date":"2013-03-26T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/beta\/en\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2016-03-02T12:42:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T12:42:25","slug":"solvtrans-expands-the-fleet-and-prepares-for-further-growth-with-zamakona-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/solvtrans-expands-the-fleet-and-prepares-for-further-growth-with-zamakona-yards\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00f8lvtrans expands the fleet and prepares for further growth with Zamakona Yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><b>S\u00f8lvtrans<\/b> has signed a new contract with the Spanish shipyard <b>Zamakona Yards <\/b>for the construction of a new 3,200 m<sup>3<\/sup> well-boat. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Delivery is scheduled to early 2014<\/span>. The vessel is a sister ship of <b>Rojna Polaris<\/b>, currently under construction at Zamakona Yards. Further, Solvtrans has entered an option for two additional vessels with delivery in second half of 2014 and first half of 2015.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">The <strong>investment<\/strong>, amounting to some NOK 250 million (\u20ac 22 million) per vessel, will be funded through a combination of internal means and bank loans.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">The new vessels will be constructed according to the same specifications as Ronja Polaris and thus have state of the art technology and environmentally friendly solutions. We recall that a &#8220;<a title=\"What are wellboats?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marineinsight.com\/marine\/marine-news\/headline\/what-are-wellboats\/\" target=\"_blank\">wellboat<\/a>&#8221; is a vessel with tanks intended for transporting live fish.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><strong>Roger Halsebakk<\/strong> CEO of <a title=\"Solvtrans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.solvtrans.no\" target=\"_blank\">Solvtrans<\/a> says &#8220;We experience an increasing imbalance in the well-boat market. A combination of new licences, continued consolidation and stricter regulations in the farming industry has increased demand for modern tonnage. The new build is a direct response to this development, and the options are core to the company\u2019s strategy to renew and expand the fleet, preparing the company for further growth. The <strong>choice of Zamakona Yards<\/strong> as supplier is based on S\u00f8lvtrans\u2019 <strong>good experiences<\/strong> from the ongoing construction of Ronja Polari<em>s<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">The option for two additional vessels can be exercised until 30 June 2013. The contract is subject to financing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00f8lvtrans has signed a new contract with the Spanish shipyard Zamakona Yards for the construction of a new 3,200 m3 well-boat. Delivery is scheduled to early 2014. The vessel is a sister ship of Rojna Polaris, currently under construction at Zamakona Yards. Further, Solvtrans has entered an option for two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[528,544,546,545,449,547,470],"class_list":["post-7519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ship-building","tag-live-fish-carrier-en","tag-live-fish-carrier-en-2","tag-solvtrans-en","tag-spanish-shipbuilding","tag-spanish-shipyards","tag-well-boat-en","tag-zamakona-yards-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zamakonayards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}