Olympic Shipping and STX Norway Offshore

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Olympic Shipping and STX Norway Offshore sponsor a Professoriate in environment at Høgskolen i Ålesund. The professoriate shall contribute to encourage further development of the future's "green" ships. Both Olympic Shipping and STX Norway Offshore have had a strong focus on environment throughout the entire life cycle of the ship, from design to construction to operations of the vessel.

An important task for this Professoriate will be to make use of research results from the research environments and companies from all over the world and turn them into practical solutions on board ships.

Olympic Shipping: The Olympic group of companies is an owner and operator of offshore- and fishing vessels. The companies are located in Fosnavåg on the West Coast of Norway. Olympic Shipping AS was founded in 1996 by captain Stig Remøy together with Bjørn Kvalsund. The company began its operation with 2 offshore vessels MV Olympic Commander and MV Olympic Supplier and the deep sea trawler FT Olympic Prawn. The group now has a fleet of 15 offshore vessels including 1 new building, 1 research vessel, 1 krill vessel and 2 modern deep sea trawler             

 
STX Europe: is an international shipbuilding group which aims to be the leading builder of cruise and offshore vessels. The group has a strong position in terms of developing state-of-the-art concepts, technology, processes and products for customers around the world. STX Europe AS comprises 15 shipyards in Finland, France, Norway, Romania, Brazil and Vietnam. STX Europe has approx. 16 000 employees.