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Backed by our values

Aker Yards success is built on our six core values. Our employee's dedication and know-how allow Aker Yards
to deliver on our promises.
How Aker Yards employees go about their daily tasks is as important as what the Group delivers. Our goal is
to be a highly respected corporate citizen in the local community and worldwide. Great integrity and solid, long-
term relationships of trust with individuals, organizations, and communities are hallmarks of Aker Yard’s
companies and staff. Naturally, we adhere to internationally recognized ethical standards as well as local laws,
regulations, and traditions. All Aker Yards employees are committed to our six corporate values.

Aker Yards’ corporate values:

• HSE mindset. We take personal responsibility for HSE because we care
• Delivering results. We deliver consistently and strive to beat our goals
• Customer drive. Building customer trust is key to our business
• People and teams. All our major achievements are team efforts
• Hands-on management. We know our business and get things done
• Open and direct dialogue. We encourage early and honest communication
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Vessels
Aker Yards is a leading supplier for technologically advanced offshore service
vessels and other specialized vessels. High levels of expertise, robust
customization capability, and a track record of exceeding customers'
expectations have resulted in a leading market position for these vessel types.
Offshore & Specialized Vessels shipyards deliver both standardized vessels
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worldwide rely on Aker Yards to design and build future-oriented, innovative, market-tailored, and competitively
priced vessels. Sophisticated vessels for the demanding markets for cruise ships, ferries, merchant vessels,
as well as offshore and specialized vessels, are the core of the extensive product range built at the Group’s
18 shipyards in eight countries.

The Group’s acclaimed arctic marine technologies, advanced vessel technology applications, availability of
appropriate yard capacity, and modular newbuilding methods all add value. With a highly skilled workforce,
modern assembly yards, state-of-the-art design resources, in-depth knowledge of our customers’ markets, and
a honed ability to listen to customer needs, Aker Yards stands for excellence at sea.

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 Designed for innovation

Innovative vessel design is the key to Aker Yards’ success. The ability to continuously push the envelope as to
functionality and technical solutions is the Group’s foremost weapon in the tough competition that prevails in
all our markets. A common feature of all projects in which Aker Yards has created shipping history is its close
cooperation with customers. Although Aker Yards possesses comprehensive know-how about customers’
markets and market mechanisms, it is customers who are the most familiar with their business opportunities.
We help them realize their goals through the development of concepts that result in higher revenues and
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Aker Yards took customers’ needs and desires for the future as a starting point when the company, during three
months of intensive efforts, created the Group’s new design work strategy for 2007. The goal of the design
strategy is to strengthen Aker Yards’ capacity for continuous renewal, so that we can realize our goal of being
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success. Key personnel from all business areas and the largest Group yards were involved in the strategy
work. Key elements in these efforts were the sharing of technical know-how, an analytical approach to
customers’ needs, and strong customer relations. By realizing in-house synergies, additional goal-oriented
design and innovation efforts will be achieved.

Creating business opportunities

Maximum value for customers in the form of vessel deployment versatility,
earnings potential, and appropriate technical solutions is Aker Yards’ foremost goal for its
innovative capabilities. Maintaining steady innovation in the following areas are also important:
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a broad range of subsea operations.
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Market driven value chain

Aker Yards works continuously to streamline procedures and provide customers with competitive prices and
attractive completion times. Establishing the world’s most cost-effective value chain in the Group’s market
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constellation. We assemble deliveries from various Group and non-Group suppliers in a process our customers
perceive as seamless.
Safety, reliability, and environmental protection are important issues for Aker Yards and our customers. Aker
Yards always combines expertise, creativity, and know-how, so that we meet our promises to our newbuilding
customers. They can then meet their commitments to charterers and other customers. Through hard work and
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by Aker Yards are designed to succeed, and successful customers are our best references.

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from optimal resource utilization for their newbuilding. The Group can deliver vessels more rapidly, keeping
cost competitive by building where it is most cost- and time-effective. A streamlined model for cooperation
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Brattvaag, Brevik, Langsten and Søviknes, at its Promar yard in Brazil, and at its two yards in Romania: Tulcea
and Braila. In order to follow our customers to new emerging markets, Aker Yards is currently building up a new
shipyard in Vietnam.

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market for larger-sized Platform Supply Vessels, Anchor Handling Vessels, and other highly specialized vessels
for the offshore exploration and oil services industry.
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designed and built. Vessel deliveries feature extensive customization.

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• Specialized Vessels

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• LNG-Fuelled Ferries

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increase the yield of subsea wells.

Aker Yards deliver cost effective vessels based on

intervention units suitable for these purposes.

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increasing water depths, thus eliminating human participation in high risk tasks.
Aker Yards design and deliver ROV-equipped vessels, often as combined vessels for different offshore
purposes.

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 About 60 percent of the world’s icebreakers have been delivered by Aker Yards. Our knowledge of ice technology
is unparalleled. Aker Yards has unique expertise in new purpose-built solutions, such as multipurpose ice-
breakers, the double-acting concept for icebreakers, tankers and supply vessels, and the use of composite
structures and stealth materials for naval craft.

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Ice Breaking Vessels
Offshore oil and gas activities are entering icy waters, creating new requirements
for supporting vessels, for example icebreakers for assistance of tankers during
loading operations, supply vessels with ice breaking capabilities and even ice
breaking tankers.
Aker Yards deliver the solutions.

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Seismic

High quality and reliable seismic data are of great importance for the estimation of possible oil and gas
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Recent deliveries:

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Platform Supply Vessel Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel &DEOH/D\HU

Bourbon Opale Bibby Sapphire Active Swan

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Well Testing Services Vessel ROV Survey / Supply Vessel Platform Supply Vessel

Norskan Botafogo Malaviya Twenty Nine Rem Supplier

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Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel Platform Supply Vessel Platform Supply Vessel

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Platform Supply Vessel Subsea Support Intervention Vessel Platform Supply ROV Vessel

Platt Tide Viking Avant Stril Odin

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Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel Platform Supply Vessel Offshore Vessel

Siem Mollie Maersk Helper Pori

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Platform Supply Vessel Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel

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 Aker Yards ASA
Hoffsveien 70 B, NO-0377 Oslo, Norway
Tel. + 47 21 02 15 00. info@akeryards.com

Offshore & Specialized

Vessels business area
Aker Yards AS
NO-6270 Brattvåg, Norway
Tel.+ 47 70 21 06 00
norway@akeryards.com

NORWAY
Aker Yards, Aukra
NO-6480 Aukra, Norway
Tel. + 47 71 17 12 00. Fax + 47 71 17 49 90
aukra@akeryards.com

Aker Yards, Brattvaag

NO-6270 Brattvåg, Norway
Tel. + 47 70 21 06 00. Fax + 47 70 21 06 02
brattvaag@akeryards.com

Aker Yards, Brevik

P.O. Box 15, NO-3991 Brevik, Norway
Tel. + 47 35 51 87 00. Fax + 47 35 51 88 00
brevik@akeryards.com

Aker Yards, Langsten

NO-6393 Tomrefjord, Norway
Tel. + 47 71 18 35 00. Fax + 47 71 18 35 01
langsten@akeryards.com

Aker Yards, Søviknes

NO-6280 Søvik, Norway
Tel. + 47 70 21 08 00. Fax + 47 70 21 08 01
soviknes@akeryards.com

ROMANIA
Aker Yards, Braila
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Tel. + 40 239 607 000. Fax + 40 239 607 003
braila@akeryards.com

Aker Yards, Tulcea

8, Portului Street, RO-820242 Tulcea, Romania
Tel.+ 40 240 53 49 18. Fax + 40 240 53 40 62
tulcea@akeryards.com

BRAZIL
Aker Yards, Brazil
Praça Alcides Pereira,
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Tel. + 55 21 27 18 90 90. Fax + 55 21 27 18 90 70
brazil@akeryards.com

VIETNAM
Aker Yards, Vietnam
Dong Xuyen Industrial Park, Rach Dua Ward,
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Tel. + 84 64 615 600. Fax + 84 64 615 601
vietnam@akeryards.com

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Aker Yards ASA is an international shipbuilding group focusing on sophisticated vessels. The group has a strong
position both in terms of innovation, product range, technology, experience and capacity. The product range includes
cruise vessels & ferries, merchant vessels and offshore & specialized vessels. Aker Yards comprises 18 yards in Brazil,
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