Okean Shipyard

The Okean Shipyard (Ukrainian: Завод «Океан») is the third major ship construction yard in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.

[2] The shipyard has constructed a variety of vessels, including non-self propelled barges, sea rescue tugs, timber-carriers, fish-processing factories, bulk carriers, and research ships.

[1][2] The shipyard was established in the 1950s and has specialized in large merchant ships, including the oil/ore carriers of the Boris Butoma class (130,000 DWT).

In October 2000, an agreement was signed between Damen Shipyards Group and the State Property Fund of Ukraine.

Since August 2006 until July 2008, the controlling share of the company has belonged to a Norwegian group, Aker Yards ASA.

[3] Johan Ratvik was appointed administrator, where he then asked Økokrim and the Oslo Police District to investigate for bounndragelse (withholding assets from the estate).

[3] In a spring 2012 press release, Tom Einertsen announced Zjevago's lawsuit, saying that "The transfer of shares and loans were part of an operation to withhold (unndra) great assets from creditors.

[5] In New York, Zjevago initiated a discovery court process to demand access to the documentation of a U.S. law firm that assisted in transferring the ownership of the shipyard to multiple companies—first in the British Virgin Isles, then Panama, then the Netherlands, and then to the British Virgin Isles again.