The Bergen Group has, through its subsidiary Bergen Group Risnes AS, received contracts to deliver five catamarans for the aquaculture industry. The contracts have a total value of NOK 24 million (€3 million/$4 million), and will generate work for Bergen Group Risnes through the first half of 2011.
Four of the working catamarans will be delivered to Mainstream Norway AS (a subsidiary of Cermaq ASA) and one is going to Firda Sjøfarmer AS. The deliveries will take place in the first and second quarter of 2011.
The five catamarans are all with a length of 12.5 metres, and improved versions of the company's standard catamarans for the aquaculture industry.
These boats have in recent decades been a market leader in the working boat segment within the aquaculture industry, and Bergen Group Risnes has over the years built and delivered a total of 178 similar boats for deliveries to Norway, Scotland and Shetland.
Bergen is a maritime industrial group with core expertise within shipbuilding, maritime service, offshore and technology.
The group has a total of 1,800 employees along the Norwegian coast from Kirkenes in the north to Stavanger in the south. Its headquarters are located in Bergen.
