Cammell Laird has signed an ambitious new agency agreement aimed at ramping up the company’s profile in the thriving marine and offshore markets in Scandinavia.
The rapidly expanding Birkenhead marine and engineering services company, which has built some of the world’s most famous ships, has appointed Octagone AS shipping consultancy to act as their sole agent in Norway, primarily to win more repair and conversion work on Norwegian vessels operating near the UK.
Paul Ashcroft, Cammell Laird’s technical manager, said the company is excited by the agreement as it will raise the profile of Cammell Laird, and the many benefits of using the company, with influential ship owners.
Mr Ashcroft said: “We have always had good relations with Norwegian owners and have done some important work in recent years including a multi million pound conversion job on the Nexans Skagerrak, cable laying vessel (see background notes). We see a real market to win more of this kind of conversion work, including offshore pipe and cable-laying vessels.
“Cammell Laird’s world class facilities include four dry docks, a large modular construction hall and extensive covered workshops. We have a huge breadth of experience and expertise in ship repair and conversion and we have a highly skilled workforce used to working on a broad range of vessels from naval ships to ferries to tankers to offshore support vessels. A key project which showcases our skills, capability and facilities for the conversion market is the building of the flight decks for the new HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH and HMS PRINCE OF WALES aircraft carriers. This is complex engineering demanding the very latest skills and techniques to build large modules of up to 1000 tonnes. This is precisely the kind of job that we will be looking to Octagone to promote. It shows the standard of work we undertake and what tremendous value for investment we can offer Scandinavian ship owners.
Mr Ashcroft added: “Octagone has an excellent reputation in Norway and many contacts in the country’s shipping sector. It has senior, expert staff with many years of experience including Svein Ditmansen, the managing director.
“Octagone now wants to expand its portfolio by offering ship repair and conversion facilities outside Norway. It really understands Cammell Laird and will highlight our broad experience and expertise to Norwegian contacts.”
Octagone is based in Tonsberg and was established in 2007 primarily as a new-build supervision company. It now provides consulting services globally to ship owners, managers and shipyards for new-build, conversion and repair work.
Mr Ditmansen said “We are delighted to work with such a famous engineering company as Cammell Laird. This agreement to represent foreign ship repair yards in the Norwegian market is a key part of our expansion.”
New NOAA Report Examines National Oil Po
Contracts Awarded in New Generation Ocea
Hydro Group’s Unveils New Front-Runner f
New Technology for Harvesting Energy fro
Scientists Discover New Marine Life in A
Cross Industry Partnership to Deliver Gr
Offshore Technology Conference Elects Ne
New Short Film Highlights the Increasing
AML Oceanographic Introduces New Profili
New SubConn® 13 Pin Low Profile Power an
AIRMAR Introduces New Chirp-Ready Broadb
Hemisphere GNSS Announces New Crescent®
AW-Lake Company Announces New Turbine Fl
UVS Appoints New Technical Sales Manager
Sonardyne International Ltd. Appoints Ne
Osiris Projects Among First to Purchase
Ocean Alliance New Headquarters in Glouc
Deepocean Group Holding Hires New Chief
New Exploration Opportunity - Offshore M
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting A.S. Sele
Bluefin Acquires SeeByte Adding New Soft
Imtech Marine Provides Complete Heating,
New Industries Passes 1,000,000 Man-hour
Drones Open Way to New World of Coral Re
Eni Norge Opens New Operations Center in
New Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences
New Earth and Marine Science and Technol
VIKING’s Super New LifeCraft™ to the Res
Lockheed Martin and Reignwood Group sign
Bluefin and NRL Complete Long-Endurance
UCLA Report Urges New Global Policy Effo
New Study Suggests Coral Reefs May be ab
Birns, Inc. Announces Strategic New Hire
Pole Star and Risk Intelligence Announce
WOC and the Nautical Institute Launch Ne
New Generation of Micro Sensors for Moni
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Annou
Subsea Americas Opens New Facility
New Order for Danish Yachts
Exocetus Development LLC Sets New Shallo
Fugro Opens New Office in Mozambique
NOSP – a New Powerful Entity
Australia: A New Reef? We’ve Already Got
TGS Announces Four New Multi-Client Surv
New Revolutionary Nano-Filler Solves Wor
New Industries Expands Piping Fabricatio
Broco® Underwater Introduces the New Ult
OIL & GAS UK Discuss New Offshore Well I
New £8 Million Training Center for the O
New Regional Manager for Aquatic Asia Pa
KONGSBERG Chosen as Engineering and Tech
NASDive – The New Standard in Diver Comm
Sonardyne Appoints Anthony Gleeson as Ne
New, Compact in situ pCO2 Sensor (C-sens
New Enhanced Key Options Introduced For
New SubConn® Coax Connector Series
New Tool Available to Help Track Spilled
Scientists Call for New Stewardship of t
Falmouth Scientific Appoints New Sales &
Hydro Group Showcases Subsea Connector t
New Cygnus DIVE with AMOLED Display
The Clean Our Ocean’s Refuge Coalition A
February: UV Irradiation: A New Kind of
MRT to Expand Globally from its New Humb
From Sensor to Desktop with Sonardyne’s
Falmouth Scientific Announces a New Low
New Industries, Inc. Completes 173-ton M
DNV GL Opens New Vietnam Office to Suppo
New 3D Atlas Makes Trace Metals in the O
BP Appoints New Chief Scientist
Trelleborg Launches New Compact Series o
New Study Shows Heart Abnormalities in F
Unique System FZE Announces the Launch o
New IUCN App for Marine Invasive Species
2G Robotics Announces New Office in Aber
Seanic Announces New Leader of Standard
Seanic Announces New Leader of Standard
Demand Grows for new Generation Ocean Ro
Seatronics Invests to Stay Ahead in ROV
Ocean Sonics Announces New Partnerships
CSA Announces New Regional Manager for F
A New Cable Project for the Grid Connect
EdgeTech’s New 6205 Bathymetry System Ma
NOAA Commissions New Fisheries Survey Sh
NOAA Gives Mariners New Way to See Surfa
DeepOcean Picks New Leopard Concept for
New Subsea Report on Technology, Safety
New Chairman Introduced at Decom Offshor
Applied Acoustics Introduces New Low Cos
New Fanbeam Laser Radar Delivers High Ac
Sonardyne Introduces Academic Discount P
From New York to New Orleans: America's
Seafloor Experts Publish New View of Zon
New Biodiversity Study Throws Out Contro
Global Rental Market Leaders Susbsea Tec
Ocean News & Technology is a publication of TSC
7897 SW Jack James Drive
Suite A, Stuart, FL 34997
(772)-221-7720