{"id":9598,"date":"2016-01-04T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2016\/01\/04\/nes-wins-new-vessel-contracts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:15:19","slug":"nes-wins-new-vessel-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/nes-wins-new-vessel-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"NES wins new vessel contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NES is under contract to deliver the systems for two identical icebreaking ships being built by the yard for delivery in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNES has during 2015 made some changes and restructurings that makes it able to compete in a tight market,\u201d said Tor Leif Mongstad, from NES.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has built up a high capacity within energy storage\/ battery hybrid and the company has already a test station for hybrid electric`s systems ready at Janaflaten 10 in Godvik, Bergen. Knowledge is very important on this future-oriented area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company largely owes its recent successes to moving its focus to other segments since the offshore supply market weakened. It now focuses more on fishing vessels, ferries, passenger\/cruise vessels, ropax and merchant vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Just recently, NES won an important contract with the Port of Tallinn for four ferries which amounts to NOK100 million. It has also signed a new contract with GMS for the delivery of a complete electrical package for the self-propelled jack-up rig <em>Evolution<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, hull no. 124 <em>Namsos<\/em> was recently was handed over to Norsk Fisketransport (NFT). The vessel is a HD587 design built at Havyard Ship Technology in Leirvik and is a development from <em>FS Stormy<\/em> for which NES supplied the diesel electric system back in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>NES delivered the new vessel&#8217;s complete propulsion system and it is now ready to go into service under a long-term contract with Oppdretternes Milj\u00f8service (OMS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian Electric Systems (NES) has delivered its first total electrical system for an icebreaker, hull no. 122 Aleut HD843 ICE, built at Havyard Leirvik for the Russian shipowner FEMCO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9598"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}