C&C Marine and Repair Belle, Chasse, La., has awarded Netherlands based mostly Damen Marine Components (DMC) its first multi-vessel order within the U.S. DMC will provide C&C Marine with gear packages for 4 newbuild Multi Cat 3013 workboats. Each package deal is comprised of steering gear and rudders, 5 winches and two towing pin techniques.
C&C Marine will ship the primary two vessels to Galveston, Texas, headquartered dredging and marine development contractor Callan Marine Ltd. and can construct the second two vessels “on spec” on the market or lease to the U.S. market.
The main objective of the Multi Cats might be to assist Callan Marine’s dredging fleet; dealing with anchors and towing barges wherever they might be working. The DMC gear is designed to manage in a variety of situations from the subtropical local weather of the Gulf of Mexico to the freezing winter on the Great Lakes.
Each of the 30-meter, multi-purpose Multi Cats might be fitted with DMC piston-type steering gear, two tugger winches, an anchor winch, a towing winch, an anchor dealing with winch and two towing pin techniques rated 50 and 80 tonnes respectively. All of those are designed and manufactured at DMC’s manufacturing services within the Netherlands, Poland and China.
DMC may even be supplying a triple rudder system for every vessel, produced in-house to a third-party design.
All DMC gear is designed and constructed on the three ideas of sturdiness, reliability and low upkeep over the long run and in all situations.
“We have full confidence that Damen Marine Components’ equipment will deliver years of trouble-free service to our client Callan Marine,” mentioned Tony Cibilich, proprietor of C&C Marine, says:. DMC’s merchandise could be discovered all around the world and it has a powerful repute within the worldwide market. We sit up for doing enterprise with them once more sooner or later.”
“Our dredges depend on these working vessels to complete large scale public and private projects.” mentioned Callan Marine COO Arie van den Adel. “We are proud to have the quality of winches provided by DMC on these important new builds.”
“It gives us great pleasure to be able to show to the U.S. market that we design and build equipment that vessel owners and operators can depend on for reliability and minimal downtime over the long term,” mentioned Ronald Beekhof, gross sales supervisor, Damen Marine Components. “Our thanks go to C&C Marine for giving us this opportunity and we look forward to supporting them throughout the installation and commissioning process.”
All DMC’s winches are designed utilizing confirmed engineering ideas and constructed to the best requirements. Its towing winches are distinctive with gearboxes that robotically modify to the required pulling pressure. This allows them to all the time run on the best velocity. This know-how can be used for the anchor-handling winches to maximise security within the usually hazardous situations by which they function. All DMC merchandise could be custom-made to satisfy the necessities of every shopper.