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New Ship; New Ocean Survey and Research Capacity

05/19/2005

Marin Mätteknik AB fleet’s latest ship investment has been completed. On April 19, M/V Franklin came into ownership and will now be upgraded to a Swedish flagged top-modern, ocean survey and research
vessel. Currently the vessel is in Göteborg for upgrading work.
”It is indeed reassuring to finally close this business deal and it is yet another step in our expansive
strategy. We will target larger shares of the world survey market than today and M/V Franklin is the
perfect platform launching high-resolution surveys in bathymetry, geophysics and environmental investigations in both our Scandinavian home waters and abroad on the seven seas” said Ola Oskarsson,
CEO, Marin Mätteknik AB.
The ocean survey world market was in 2004 valued by Douglas Westwood Ltd to USD 2,5 Bn, a
growt by USD 1,5 Bn since 2000 and yet with a increasing trend to 2008, when it is valued to USD 2,8
Bn. There is in other worlds lots of business and surveys to be done for us and the other actors in our
market. Our new increment M/V Franklin will consequently be an enabler to new and rewarding business. Our shipping company Shipriders AB administrates our ships:
”M/V Franklin gives us other possibilities to act ocean wide than our smaller, littoral surveying vessels does today. Our survey vessel M/V Triad is with her current configuration exceptionally good within the
depth interval of 5 – 500 meters but have, of course, with the lesser size, constraints to what is feasible due to weather, sea and endurance when sea borne. M/V Franklin is therefore a powerful and expansive addition to us and with her, the oceans are open to worldwide survey and research assignments ” said Svante Johansson, CEO, Shipriders AB.