Havyard Design & Solutions AS in Herøy has signed a contract with Astilleros Zamacona for the delivery of a design and equipment package for the building of a Havyard 931 CCV (Crew Change Vessel). This will be the fourth vessel Havyard Design & Solutions in Herøy has designed for ESVAGT.
The first three ships, of the Havyard 832 SOV type, have been delivered/will be delivered from Havyard’s own yard in Leirvik in Sogn. The new design will be delivered by the Spanish yard Astilleros Zamacona, which has also built ships for ESVAGT before. The new contract also includes the delivery of a large equipment package consisting, among other things, of propulsion system, navigation, automation and dynamic positioning system (DP).
The vessel is scheduled for delivery from the yard in May 2017.
This design has been specially developed for ESVAGT. It will be used to change crews on vessels in ESVAGT’s fleet.
The intention is to make the crew changeovers more cost efficient by transferring crews while the vessels are at sea instead of having to be moored at quay, which has been the principle for crew-change within ESVAGT for more than 25 years.
The crew changeovers will also be combined with drills and the training of crews on ESVAGT’s standby fleet. Havyard 931 CCV has been developed especially to enable personnel to be transported quickly and safely, with as little fuel consumption as possible.
Vice President Sales Gisle Vinjevoll Thrane at Havyard Design & Solutions said: “We have been developing designs for other markets for several years in addition to ships for offshore oil production. We are doing this both in order to be less vulnerable to fluctuations in the offshore market, and in order to utilise our expertise from offshore vessels in other markets.
“Our expertise, methods and tools in ship design can be used for many types of vessels, and we must take advantage of that. This enables us to offer designs to customers that operate in different segments and to new customers in segments where we have not been present before.”
“ESVAGT has ships for emergency response in relation to offshore oil production, oil spill response, personnel transport and support vessels for offshore wind power production. Havyard can offer designs for most of these ship types. Havyard’s yard in Leirvik in Sogn has already delivered two wind farm service vessels of Havyard design and another is currently under construction,” said Thrane .
Design Manager Arve Helsem Leine at Havyard Design & Solutions has developed many designs for different types of vessels in recent years. Havyard now has a design portfolio consisting, among other things, of different types of offshore vessels and fishing vessels, ice breakers, live fish carriers and wind farm service vessels.
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