Head of Seafood Unit

TEXT: TEXT: LISA T. DE JAGER

The Norwegian Seafood Unit is supporting our Seafood Customers throughout the whole value chain, from wild catch and farming to ready to eat meal. Business Assurance has an established collaboration and delivery with experts in Oil & GAS and Maritime and also with Digital Solutions and Global Technical Research. With a broad range of services from improving fish welfare and environmental emissions to social responsibility and certification of equipment, license to operate and classification of offshore farming and more, DNV GL is well positioned growing with the aquaculture industry. Our highly skilled people are located along the coast of Norway with the largest group based in Bergen. We are proud to influence the Norwegian seafood industry growth, innovation and exports to global markets.

Sustainability & Traning Manager

TEXT: LIN JACOBSEN HAMMER

Since April 1st Business Assurance operate in two divisions, the certification division and the division for Digital assurance and supply chain services (DASC), including services within assurance and assessment connected to sustainability. This to accelerate the growth of innovative supply chain, assessment and digital services while allowing strong focus for certification services - with both divisions collaborating extremely closely in serving customers together.

As regulators, investors, owners, customers and employees demand companies to have a greener focus, we’ve been working closely with the other business units in Norway to support our customers to meet these demands. That means we can put our competence within the domain, our R&D competence and our process knowledge into play, and support companies set up a strategy that can be implemented, followed up and reported on.

The result is that a company can get a verification of a green loan to finance their green focus, identify how their activities support the UN Sustainability goals or their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) focus, get suppliers audited to secure they are upholding workers’ rights, show their products story, whether it’s the degree of recycled content or it’s travel from land to table, or as we’ve just launched, show their maturity and readiness to start up again after the COVID-19 pandemic.

We use our core and global competences and develop our services with the customer need in focus, finding the right starting point, often one of our training services, and aim to create more digital processes that help them, and us, be more efficient, have the right focus and deliver according to the stakeholders expectations.