Offshore focus pays dividends for Spanish yards

摘要

Focusing on the construction of offshore support vessels (OSVs) has enabled a number of well-known Spanish shipyards to prosper in recent years, among them Balenciaga, Metalships, Astilleros Zamakona and HJ Barreras. With a potentially damaging investigation by the European Union (EU) in 2011 now behind them, the same yards are confident of securing more work from the sector once again. The issue rumbled on for much of 2013, but a solution was found and yards say they have put the issue behind them, although a number of important orders won by them were jeopardised by the issue and some yards are understood to have lost orders to other countries, including some in Asia, because of the uncertainty.