Marine and offshore business provided the best operating margin for Bureau Veritas (BV) in the first half of 2021, even though the division’s revenue and profit grew slower than the average across the group.
The shipping business posted solid growth in the first half of 2021, the French classification society said, as the “market experienced a very sharp rebound, with a threefold increase in worldwide new orders” by gross tonnage from the first half of 2020.
