Comfort-at-Sea – the joint venture between Blue Water Shipping and International Shipping Partners has made an agreement with Areva to deliver two accommodation vessels for wind-projects in the German part of the North Sea.
The vessels ‘Ocean Atlantic’ and ‘Sea Discoverer’ will operate on the offshore wind projects Global Tech 1 and Trianel wind farm Borkum for nine and six months respectively. Areva delivers the turbines for these projects.
“This is two important contracts for us. As the installations and projects take place further and further from the coast the demand for accommodation ships rise to minimize the transport of crew to and from shore,” says Jacob Kjærgaard, Business Development Manager at Blue Water .
“This is the fourth and fifth ship delivered by Comfort at Sea to the offshore wind turbine industry. ‘Ocean Atlantic’ is the newest ship in a fleet of a total of 23 ships. All ships have different advantages and on the ‘Ocean Atlantic’ there is a Ro/Ro ramp and a deck capacity for both containers and workshop,” says Soeren Stougaard, Authorised Shipbroker at Blue Water .
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Press release, August 16, 2013; Image: Blue Water Shipping