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Swedish Coastguard News

22 Nov 2019

Damen Signs EPC Contract with Swedish Coastguard

Photo: Damen Oskarshamnsvarvet

Damen Oskarshamnsvarvet has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Kustbevakningen, the Swedish Coastguard (KBV), for modernization on the vessel KBV 181. The vessel was built as a patrol boat, but will after modification serve as a combination vessel, for both patrol and oil recovery. It is used also by Umeå Marine Forskningscenter (UMF) for research and environmental monitoring in the Gulf of Bothnia.The KBV 181 is scheduled to arrive at Damen’s…

09 Mar 2018

Stena Line, Swedish Club to Test Emergency Plans

Photo: The Swedish Club

The Swedish Club and Stena Line have completed a major Emergency Response Training Exercise, designed to test how Stena’s own emergency procedures integrate with those of the authorities and support services in the event of a major incident. The round table exercise took place last week at the Swedish Sea Rescue Society headquarters, with over sixty expert contributors taking part. The drill, jointly planned and conducted by the Club and the Swedish Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC)…

22 Dec 2016

Norsafe Bags Another Swedish Coastguard contract

On Wednesday 21st December, Norsafe signed yet another new contract with the Swedish Coast Guard (KBV) to deliver nine new Magnum 750 MKII boats. The boats are specially developed in close cooperation with KBV and are a continuation of seven boats already delivered between 2015 and 2016. “It is hard to imagine a better Christmas present than this”, says Kjell Sørensen, the leader of this area of business at Norsafe. “This shows that Norsafe is recognised as a high quality provider of specialised boats. For many years Norsafe has had a particularly good and fruitful cooperation with KBV. Through this collaboration, Norsafe has developed a fast rescue boat that also meets the KBV’s operational requirements.

11 Feb 2014

KBV Orders Another Vessel from Norsafe

Sindre Sviggum Knutsen, Area Sales Manager and Ă…ke Dagnevik, KBV

On July 2, 2013, Norsafe and the Swedish Coastguard (KBV) signed a frame contract concerning the delivery of their next generation workboats. The total number of boats is undecided but in October Norsafe received the seventh boat order for delivery in 2014 - a contract to deliver the next generation Magnum 750 rescue boats. In 1997, KBV purchased new workboats from Norsafe, and this resulted in the design of Norsafe’s Magnum 750. These boats are still in active duty by KBV 15 years later and are used for dive-operations…

04 Jun 2003

Oil Spill Threatens Swedish Coastline

An oil slick from the sunken Chinese freighter, Fu Shan Hai, is approaching Sweden’s southeastern coast. According to maritime officials, Swedish and Danish environmental vessels were able to recover 700 tons of oil, but the wreckage is still leaking and oil has been drifting toward the coastline of Skane. The Swedish Coastguard flight division are supervising the area around the clock.