Norwegian Shipbuilding Register
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The Norwegian Shipbuilding Register is a domestic ship register for ships under construction or contracts for building ships within Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The register is managed by the Norwegian Ship Registers
Norwegian Ship Registers
The Norwegian Ship Registers, sometimes called NIS-NOR is a Norwegian government agency responsible for operating the Norwegian International Ship Register, the Norwegian Ship Register and the Norwegian Shipbuilding Register. The register is subordinate to the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and...

 and is subordinate to the Norwegian Ship Register
Norwegian Ship Register
The Norwegian Ship Register or NOR is a domestic ship register for Norway. The register is managed by Norwegian Ship Registers .-Registration:All ships over 15 metres must register, as must offshore platform and equivalent...

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Registration

All ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...

s over 10 metres can register, including offshore platform
Oil platform
An oil platform, also referred to as an offshore platform or, somewhat incorrectly, oil rig, is a lаrge structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil and natural gas, and to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing...

s and equivalent. The ship must be built at a Norwegian ship yard
Ship Yard
Ship Yard is a rail yard on the Richmond District in Richmond, Virginia. It is just east of Triple Crossing. Ship Yard is not often used for putting together trains, but is more for storing empty cars, especially boxcars....

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