In 2022, 13 percent of Norwegian ferries will be built in Norway. Before 2015, by comparison, 82 per cent of Norwegian ferries were «heimesnikra». Next year, the figure is expected to be 0 percent. It shows a new report from Norwegian Industry. – The trend is gloomy, but not surprising, says Stål Heggelund, who is maritime industry manager in Norwegian Industry (supplementary answer in the fact box). – Public purchasers of ships lack sustainability expertise Stål Heggelund, Norwegian Industry – The fact that production is possible in Norway is a cornerstone for us to maintain our position as a maritime nation in the long run. An important measure to strengthen Norwegian shipyards and supplier industry and services in Norway is that the state and county contract their boats in Norway. This will support the entire maritime industry and contribute to construction activities and further development of our shipyards. Public purchasers of ships and maritime services largely lack sustainability expertise, or knowledge of what is available on the technology front. They also make little environmental demands. As of today, only 14 per cent of public procurement has an environmental criterion in its entirety. One answer to this challenge is that an expert unit will be established to support purchasing couples in the public sector who will shape maritime tenders. The aim of the service is to help public purchasing couples order innovative and sustainable vessels or maritime services and thus accelerate the green shift and increase maritime value creation, employment and exports. THE TREND: Before 2015, eight out of ten Norwegian ferries were built in Norway. Next year, the figure is set to be zero. Photo: Håvard Nyhus – A lost Norwegian industrial adventure Hans Jørgen Fedog in the Green Yard Group calls talking about a will over «a lost Norwegian industrial adventure». – The Storting must wake up, he says. An old saying along the coast says that every job at the yard creates five other jobs in the surrounding area. Tenant in the industry association Norwegian Shipyards, Asle Strønen, says “the situation is unjustifiable”. On Tuesday this week, he met in the Storting to ask Norwegian politicians to change the award criteria and “steer projects in a national direction”. – Norway loses innovation power when we only emphasize price, he says. He refers to the hydrogran-powered ferry on the Bodø-Moskenes connection, which is now being built abroad. This summer, the battle is over the construction of two hydrogen ferries that will cross the Vestfjord in Nordland. – We expect the government to come up with measures over the summer, and most recently in the budget for 2023 which ensures that the ferries are built here, says parliamentary representative for SV, Lars Haltbrekken. An overview news has made shows that the state and county municipalities have owned 14 ships abroad since 2017 (see fact box). Government and county municipal vessels contracted with foreign shipyards Client, name of ship, shipyard, nation, completion Nordland County Municipality, «Oscar Sund», Hvide Sande, Denmark, 2019 Norwegian Arctic University, «Autonomous», Tuco, Denmark 2020 Navy, « Ragnar Ulstein », Weldmec, Finland, 2019 Navy, submarine, HDW Kiel, Germany, 2030 Navy, submarine, HDW Kiel, Germany, 2030 Navy, submarine, HDW Kiel, Germany, 2030 Navy, submarine, HDW Kiel, Germany, 2030 Norsk Polar Institute, «Crown Prince Haakon», Fincantieri, Italy, 2018 Brevik Ferry Company, «Sandøy», Holland shipyards, Netherlands, 2021 Oppland County Municipality, «Randsfjordferja Elrond», Holland shipyards, Netherlands, 2021 Marine Research Institute Bergen, Holland shipyards, Netherlands, 2022 Marine Research Institute Bergen , «Dr. Fridtjof Nansen », Gondan, Spain, 2017 Norwegian Geological Survey,« New Seisma », Kewatec, Finland, 2022 Vestland County Municipality,« Skulebas », Hvide Sande, Denmark ROSENBERG VERFT: – It is a business policy scandal that more and more ferries are being produced in abroad, says Geir Jørgensen in Raudt. Photo: Mathias Oppedal / news – A business policy scandal – The toolkit for the state should of course be designed more for the benefit of the Norwegian shipbuilding industry, says Hugo Mikal Strand, who is shipyard director at Fitjar mechanical workshop. He points out that the state provides support for environmental measures when the vessel is built, and that the award criteria do not take sufficient account of “Norwegian advantages such as quality, delivery precision, project risk and good follow-up”. In the Hurdal platform, the government announces that it will create a strategy to ensure that public construction assignments within the maritime sector “end up with Norwegian shipyards as far as possible”. – It is a business policy scandal that more and more ferries are being produced abroad, when we know that Norwegian shipyards have the capacity and competence to produce them, says Geir Jørgensen (Raudt) in the Trade Committee in the Storting. He adds that it is “completely outrageous that the money for the community goes to build ferries and research vessels in the Netherlands and Turkey when Norwegian shipyards need assignments”. – We had hoped that the government and SV cleaned up in this Jørn Th. Prangerød, Fellesforbundet – Public procurement must be used to develop Norwegian climate-friendly technology, and at the same time contribute to more value creation and employment in Norway. We are happy that the government shares this view in the Hurdal platform, but so far these figures unfortunately show that things are going the wrong way and are getting worse and worse. It can not be the case that we with public money, which is actually yours and my money, should contribute to building up shipbuilding in other countries that compete with our own industry. In the beginning, Norwegian subcontractors are often allowed to deliver, but after a quarter of an hour they build up their own value chains. This is what we now see the contours of when it comes to building ferries in Turkey for Norwegian accounts. With this development, the maritime industry will have weakened our innovative power, and not only the shipyards, but also the equipment suppliers in the future. It should be a matter of course when public procurement, as a ferry service, is to be incorporated that the perspective on the development of the maritime industry weighs heavily in the decision-making processes associated with the choice of shipyard and shipyard. When it comes to the new hydrogen ferries (Bodø – Moskenes) that Torghatten Nord has won the tender for, only the price is used as a basis. We fear that they will also build them in Turkey. We had hoped that the government and SV would clean up this in the revised budget that was recently negotiated. That did not happen, so then we look at the state budget for the autumn. We envisage an earmarking of 10 to 20 million to relieve technology risk and strengthen the competitiveness of Norwegian shipyards. Furthermore, the government must enter into a dialogue with Torghatten, which has won the tender and the Norwegian maritime industry. Norway cannot afford to lose the opportunity to build a value chain for hydrogen even before we get started. Maritime industry is dependent on reference projects to refer to in international competition, and when full-scale solutions are shown in operation as a tried and tested concept, the possibilities for success with more and greener exports are far greater. The ferry segment represents a significant potential, not least in Europe Norway is subject to the EEA’s regulations for public procurement. A crucial point in the debate about the Norwegian shipbuilding industry is how rigid these regulations are. – If we are to have a shipbuilding industry in the future, the government must get involved, and utilize and challenge the room for maneuver in the EEA agreement, says Jørgensen. STADYARD YARD: Philip Rakkenes and Patrik Solvåg are apprentices at Stadyard yard at Raudeberg outside Måløy. Photo: Asgeir Reksnes Measures for employment fall into Dutch hands In 2020, the Storting adopted an oil package to help Norwegian industry through the corona crisis. One of the measures was for the Institute of Marine Research to build a new ship worth NOK 110 million. The measure was under the heading «Measures for increased activity and employment – get people back to work». Nevertheless, the task fell into Dutch hands. Last year, several people responded that Vestland County Municipality gave the assignment to a Danish shipyard when they were to have a new training vessel for the upper secondary school in the fishing town of Måløy. In the announcement criteria, the price weighed 50 percent. In 2020, Boreal entered into a contract with the Turkish shipyard Sefine Shipyard, for the construction of five new electric ferries to the islands in the Inner Oslo Fjord. Two new battery ferries for the ferry connections Stranda-Liabygda and Eidsdal-Linge will be built at the Turkish shipyard Tersan. KLEVEN YARD: Last year, Menon Economics presented a report on the Norwegian shipyard industry on behalf of the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Photo: Nils-Atle Sundnes / news – Would like to delay the green shift CEO of NHO Sjøfart, Frode Sund, tells news that it is “natural” that Norwegian shipyards do not invest heavily in ferries and that the large volume means that they “regardless would not be able to take away everything that has been delivered in the last 7-8 years ». – If it had been possible at all, a management of construction assignments for Norwegian shipyards would have delayed the green shift, he says. He adds that a Norwegian-built ferry is not 100 percent Norwegian, “just as a Turkish-built ferry is not 100 percent Turkish” since parts of the ship (for example the hull) were built in a different city than where the ship was completed. Liv Kari Eskeland from the Conservative Party says that figures from Norwegian Industry reflect several factors, such as access to labor, shipyard capacity and price, and that the report does not say anything about exports. – Of course, we would have preferred that all our new buildings in the maritime sector were built in Norway, but that is not the case. It is important that we in Norway have the right price and cost level. This means that we also win contracts where the vessel is delivered out of the country.
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Norway has “stopped” building ferries – news Vestland
