{"id":1618,"date":"2003-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2003\/06\/01\/norwegian-company-in-china-shipbuilding-joint-venture\/"},"modified":"2003-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-31T23:00:00","slug":"norwegian-company-in-china-shipbuilding-joint-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2003\/06\/01\/norwegian-company-in-china-shipbuilding-joint-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Company in China Shipbuilding Joint Venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Starting up outside of Norway will help to strengthen the environment and level of expertise we have locally, &#8216; said Ulstein CEO Gunvar Ulstein. &#8216;In China we will build ships in a wider range than we have traditionally built in Ulsteinvik. Consequently, our new initiative will not compete directly with the shipyard in Ulsteinvik.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Vidar Eikrem, who will head up Ulstein&#8217;s Chinese operation, added, &#8220;With this initiative, we will seek to increase the market share within the offshore industry. By using our competence in a wider range, we will reach a new and larger market than we do at present.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The new company, Ulstein Yangzijiand Shipbuilding will have a small project team of from two to four people, in addition to Eikrem, on site in China when the first contracts are in place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Our objective is transfer some of the strengths within project management and implementation and in this way create a competitive concept for our customers, &#8216; said Eikrem.<\/p>\n<p>MJ Information No: 18391<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norways Ulstein has formed a joint venture company with Chinese shipyard Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding which will enable Ulstein to build their own design offshore vessels in the Far East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-deals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","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=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}