SeaZip Offshore Services took delivery of two Damen Fast Crew Suppliers (FCS) 2610 on Saturday, 2 April.
Continuing the company’s vessel-naming trend, the new additions will be known as SeaZip 5 and SeaZip 6 . The offshore service provider now has six Damen FCS 2610 vessels in its fleet.
“Once again, it’s a great pleasure to work with SeaZip Offshore Services,” states Damen Sales Manager Benelux Roel van Eijle . “An April delivery suits their needs perfectly – these two vessels can get to work straight away as this year’s offshore wind O&M [operations and maintenance] period begins.”
A key modification made to both vessels was to increase their draught. Jan Reier Arends , SeaZip Offshore Services Managing Director, said: “By strengthening the hull in certain areas, the vessels are able to sit 5 cm lower in the water. This will allow us to load an additional 5 tonnes of cargo – this is a 25% increase of loading capacity. We will be able to carry a lot more equipment and materials.”
The new vessels exhibit a number of additional adaptations, Arends said, and added: “You can call this fine tuning – coming from lessons that we have learned from the earlier SeaZip vessels. For example, together with the fender supplier, we have improved the bow fenders.”
The SeaZip 5 and SeaZip 6 will join their four sister vessels – SeaZip 1, 2, 3 and 4.