Listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange, I.M. Skaugen SE (IMSK) - www.skaugen.com - is a Marine Transportation Service Company engaged in the hassle-free transportation of petrochemical gases and LPG, marine transfer of crude oil and LNG, as well as the design and construction of smaller and specialized high quality marine vessels.

IMSK is a fully integrated shipping company that designs, builds, owns, mans and manages our own ships. IMSK customers are major international companies in the oil and petrochemical industry, whom we serve worldwide from our operations in Dubai (UAE), Freeport and Houston (USA), Oslo and Stavanger (Norway), Singapore, Sunderland (UK) and Nanjing, Shanghai, Taizhou, Zhangjiagang and Wuhan (China). IMSK operates recruitment and training programmes in St. Petersburg (Russia) and Wuhan (China) for the crewing of vessels.

IMSK employs approximately 1,600 people and currently operates 38 vessels worldwide. The fleet comprises petrochemical gas and LPG carriers, Aframax tankers and lightering support vessels, barges and tugs.

IMSK has a comprehensive newbuilding programme in China for  three 3,200 cbm LPG vessels; three purpose designed combination carriers with LPG/Ethylene/VCM and Organic chemicals carrying capability;  up to ten advanced 10,000-12,000 cbm LNG/LPG/Ethylene gas carriers for delivery from beginning 2007 and onwards. IMSK has invested in infrastructure with both a shipyard and a cargo plant maker in China to ensure innovative and flexible vessels at low cost. Six new purpose-designed and built "Aframax"- sized tankers were delivered to SPT during 2007 and early 2008 on a long-term bareboat charter.