The Norwegian Shipowners Association () is an employers' organization and interest group for Norwegian

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and offshore companies. The organization's primary fields are national and international industry policies, employer issues, competence and recruitment, environmental issues and innovation in addition to safety at sea. The operations of the Norwegian Shipowners Association is executed in close relation to the industry. The organization is led by boards and councils appointed by its members, and an important part of the operations is carried out by groups and committees. The member organizations are divided into five different groups: Deep Sea, Short Sea, Group of Underwater entrepreneurs (GUE), Group of Offshore entrepreneurs (GOE) and Group of Offshore Service companies (GOS). The environmental vision of the Norwegian Shipowners Association is that Norwegian shipping and offshore entrepreneur operations will not have any environmentally damaging emissions at sea or in the air. One of the associations objectives is that climate emissions from shipping will be regulated through international regulations, preferably administrated by IMO. As an employer organization the Norwegian Shipowners Association is responsible for collective bargaining and the establishment of collective agreements for Norwegian and foreign seamen on a ship in the Norwegian International Ship Register (NIS) and the Norwegian Ship Register (NOR), and for offshore activities. The association protects the members' employer relationship also through the contact and the influence of Norwegian and foreign authorities, and participate in international organizations like the EU,

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and IMO. Besides working with the Norwegian maritime schools, it also operate several international activities to ensure access and quality of foreign crew and officers serving on Norwegian-controlled ships. All potential recruitment countries are considered, and the main countries today is the Philippines, China and Russia. Here, the Norwegian Shipowners Association have activities in different degrees. Norwegian Shipowners' Association has approximately 160 members. The organization is located in Rådhusgaten 25 in Oslo. Sturla Henriksen is the managing director and Hans Olav Lindal is the president. The organization was founded on 15 September 1909 in

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, under the nameThe Norwegian Shipowner Association, and changed to its current name in 1984. Association's first president was

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. The organization played an important role in the negotiation of shipping contracts with the

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and

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and several of the association's members were driving force in the organization of the

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Presidents

* 1909–1912:

* 1913–1915: Aanon Gunerius Knudsen * 1915–1918: Ambortius Olsen Lindvig * 1921–1924:

Gustav Henriksen Gustav Severin Henriksen (25 October 1872 – 8 October 1939) was a Norwegian Shipping Executive. Biography Henriksen was born at Tune (now Sarpsborg) in Østfold, Norway. He was the son of Christian Henriksen (1829-1886) and Marthe Nielsen ( ...

* 1925–1927: H. Westfal-Larsen * 1928–1930: H.M. Wrangell * 1931–1933: Arth. H. Mathiesen * 1934–1936: Fr. Odfjell * 1937–1940: Christian Wegner Haaland * 1940–1942: Arne Bjørn-Hansen * ... * 1945–1947: Klaus Wiese-Hansen * 1948–1950: Ths. S. Falck jr. * 1951–1953: Ole Bergesen * 1954–1956: L. Usterud-Svendsen * 1957–1959: H. Kuhnle * 1960–1961:

Jørgen Jahre Jørgen Jahre (29 October 1907 – 24 April 1998) was a Norwegian shipowner and sports official. Jørgen Jahre was born in Tjølling, in Vestfold county, Norway. He was a nephew of Norwegian shipping magnate Anders Jahre. He was secretary of ...

* 1962–1963:

Nils Astrup Nils Astrup (11 November 1778 – 26 September 1835) was a Norwegian politician. He was elected to the Storting, Norwegian Parliament in 1820, representing the constituency of ''Nedenæs og Raabygdelagets Amt''. He worked as a vogt there. He serv ...

* 1964–1965: Marius Lundegaard * 1966–1967: Knut H. Staubo * 1968–1969: Johan Horn * 1970–1971: Thomas Chr. Haaland * 1972–1973: Dag Klaveness * 1974–1975: Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen jr. * 1976–1977: Charles R. Bergesen * 1978–1979: Nils Werring jr. * 1980–1981: Fridtjof Lorentzen * 1982–1983:

Atle Jebsen Atle Jebsen (10 November 1935 – 13 October 2009) was a Norwegian businessperson and ship-owner. Jebsen was born in Bergen in 1935 and was a great-grandson of Peter Jebsen Peter Jebsen ( 6 May 1824 – 30 October 1892) was a Norwegian business ...

* 1984–1985: Wollert Hvide * 1986–1987: Peter T. Smedvig * 1988–1989:

Nils Jørgen Astrup Nils is a Scandinavian given name, a chiefly Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Latvian variant of Niels, cognate to Nicholas. People and animals with the given name * Nils Bergström (born 1985), Swedish ice hockey player *Nils Björk (1898–1989), ...

* 1990–1992:

Jens Ulltveit-Moe Jens Ulltveit-Moe (born July 16, 1942 in Drammen) is a Norwegian businessperson. He founded Umoe in 1984, and retains ownership of the group. Ulltveit-Moe is CEO of Umoe, and was formerly Chairman of Petroleum Geo-Services. Biography Ulltveit-M ...

* 1992–1994: Rolf Westfal-Larsen * 1994–1996: Westye Høegh * 1996–1998: Per Sævik * 1998–2000: Bjørn Sjaastad * 2000–2002:

Leif Terje Løddesøl Leif Terje Løddesøl (24 April 1935 – 18 November 2021) was a Norwegian businessperson. He was born in Oslo as a son of Aasulv Løddesøl (1896–1978) and Liv Marie Bjørlykke (1905–1994). He has been married twice. He graduated from the ...

* 2002–2004: Terje J. K. Andersen * 2004–2006: Johan G. Hvide * 2006–2008: Trygve Seglem * 2008–2010:

Elisabeth Grieg Elisabeth Grieg (born 12 June 1959) is a Norwegian businessperson. She is part owner of Grieg Group and holds many chair and board positions in the group. Outside the group she is Chairman of Norsk Hydro since 2007, deputy chair of the Norwegian ...

* 2010–2012: Thor Jørgen Guttormsen * 2012–2014: Trond Kleivdal * 2014-2016: Lars Peder Solstad * 2016-2018: Hans Olav Lindal * 2018 - :

Harald Solberg ''Harald Solberg (born 20 July 1976) is a Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Vestfold during the terms 1997–2001 and 2001–2005. From 2001 to 2 ...

References

External links

About Norwegian Shipowners' Association
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