In 2018, the Havila Coastal Route was commissioned to operate four of the daily routes between Bergen and Kirkenes. Since its inception, the company has been characterized by that things have not gone according to plan.
The construction of all four ships for the reiar team has been significantly delayed. Originally they should have four ships ready by January 1, 2021. Until now is just one ship in operation.
Now Havila has encountered new things happening in the sea:
The company GTLK, which owns the four ships, is affected by the EU’s sanctions against Russia.
Havila Kystruten writes this in a stock exchange announcement on Monday.
GTLK is a Russian state
Companies that rent out team time, for example aircraft, cars, ships or property.
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The four ships that the Havila Coastal Route is scheduled to sail along the coast with have a total value of around NOK 4 billion.
The agreement between Havila and GTLK is that the Russians will own the ships, and rent them out to Havila for 10 years. After 10 years of lease, Havila has the Coastal Route
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Discusses alternative financing
Havila Kystruten writes that they assume that the sanctions prevent GTLK from financing the ships. They have been working to find an alternative financing for a period, because they saw that there could be sanctions against GTLK.
“Havila Capella” now runs a regular route between Bergen and Kirkenes. As far as NRK knows, the second ship, “Havila Castor”, was to be delivered from the Turkish shipyard Tersan these days.
According to the booking portal on Havila’s website, “Havila Castor” will sail a maiden voyage from Bergen on 10 May.
Havila is now in discussions about how the ship can be delivered as quickly as possible, write them in the stock exchange announcement.
CFO of Havila Kystruten, Arne Johan Dale, tells NRK that the company will not comment on the matter beyond what is stated in the stock exchange announcement.
Related to President Putin
Follow E24 Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, and several other Russian government leaders in controlled to GTLK.
GTLK is one of the largest leasing companies in the world and rents out other aircraft, cargo ships and cruise ships.
KREML: Dmitry Peskov is a Russian diplomat. He works as a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin.
Photo: SPUTNIK / Reuters
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