[ 60 ] THE SHIP OF THE FUTURE TEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY AND COUNTING 2023 marks NSO’s tenth anniversary in the interior outfitting of passenger ships, so what better way to celebrate this landmark anniversary than being responsible for the complete turnkey interior package for P&O Ferries? Rather than being a ‘cocky’ new entrant in the marine interior accommodation market, NSO prefers a humble approach. “We know where we come from,” explains Bruce Xu, NSO’s General Manager and one of the company’s co-founders. “We also understand the challenges ahead. One can never be perfect in everything, yet we strive to achieve more and more by learning and adapting to our clients’ needs. One of our strengths is to constantly learn, listen and adapt. Being agile is key to success and this mentality goes top-down in our organisation. Besides being communicative, we take full advantage of the competences of our international, multicultural teams. In our organisation we have colleagues from Europe — Sweden, Norway, Finland, UK and Estonia — , USA as well as staff members from other Asian countries such as South Korea and Malaysia. We literally speak many languages, and we truly enjoy it. To further develop our know-how we spend vast resources in multi-discipline education, training and travelling. Today, NSO counts about 500 employees and they tend to stay with us even if they get lucrative offers from other companies. This is quite telling, isn’t it?” DREAM TEAM Sweden’s Kristian Vidfar, Director of NSO, comments that it is extremely difficult to predict the future of passenger shipbuilding. “ We aim for the best, strive for excellence and remain agile. With multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural employees we firmly believe that NSO is on the right track to become the shipowners’ and shipyard’s preferred turnkey interior contractor. Having all these bright minds combined into a single contractor is quite unique”
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NzQ1NTk=