Platou Group News

Zamakona Yards has signed an agency agreement with the Stewart Group, owned by RS Platou&Clarksons, the shipyard announced.   The agreement will see the Stewart Group will offer its customers Zamakona Yards repair and maintenance services both afloat and in our shipyards.   The Stewart Group was founded in 1922 by Samuel Stewart and was purchased in 2008 by the Platou Group. Subsequently the Platou/Stewarts group has been purchased by Clarksons in 2015. It operates globally with major offices in Aberdeen, London, Accra, Cape Town, Singapore and Houston.

CIT Maritime Finance has entered into a Cooperation Agreement with RS Platou Finans AS that will help them expand into the leasing market. CIT Maritime Finance offers senior secured loans, sale-leasebacks and bareboat charters to owners and operators of oceangoing cargo vessels including tankers, bulkers, container ships, car carriers, as well as offshore vessels and drilling rigs. “Through this agreement CIT Maritime Finance will have access to the RS Platou Group network of services, which will help us to further build a high quality portfolio of maritime assets,” said C. Jeffrey Knittel, President, CIT Transportation Finance. RS Platou Finans AS was established 2004 as part of the RS Platou Group.