{"id":1588,"date":"2004-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2004\/07\/01\/strong-growth-for-bureau-veritas\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:23:14","slug":"strong-growth-for-bureau-veritas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2004\/07\/01\/strong-growth-for-bureau-veritas\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Growth for Bureau Veritas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1995, group turnover has grown by almost 400% and the workforce has increased from 6,000 to over 19,000.<\/p>\n<p>BV&#8217;s marine division continues to grow and forms the international backbone of the group. Marine division turnover was up by 13% in 2003, backed by a strong performance in newbuilding markets. The growing classed fleet stands at over 6,700 vessels of more than 41.2mgt.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Anne, managing director of BV&#8217;s marine division said, &#8216;There has been a welcome outbreak of common sense amongst classification societies during 2003. The move towards common rules and to re-establishing trust in IACS benefits the whole industry.<\/p>\n<p>Bureau Veritas has consistently supported the role of IACS as a forum for developing common rules, and during 2003 we were able to help IACS to react quickly and sensibly to flag state proposal for setting new shipbuilding standards.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>MJ Information No: 19638<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bureau Veritas posted annual results last month showing an eighth consecutive year with growth averaging over 17%. Turnover of the Bureau Veritas group for 2003 was ?1.283 billion, up 12% on 2002 and consolidated net profit grew by 10% to ?95.9 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-key-deals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}