KIEV, March 18 - Kerch-based Zaliv Shipyard (Crimea) has started building a hull for an offshore ship to service drilling platforms for Norway's ULSTEIN HULL AS shipbuilding holding, the company told Interfax-Ukraine.

The keel-laying ceremony was held recently.

The sum of the contract, which was signed in the spring 2007, is not disclosed. The order will be completed in October 2008.