Edison Chouest to Build 13 Damen Tugs Following Texas, Alaska Contract Wins
Louisiana- based Edison Chouest Offshore is developing 13 Damen- developed strong mooring help as well as companion yanks in feedback to 2 significant agreement wins in Texas as well as Alaska.
The 13 yanks will certainly be created at ECO’s shipyards under Damen’s technological guidance.
For the very first agreement is one ECO won previously this year with a brand-new Corpus Christi based LNG export terminal. The arrangement requires the supply of 4 companion yanks with a bollard pull of 80 tonnes to run at this brand-new LNG terminal in Texas, which is presently unfinished. The Damen yanks will certainly be of the escort/mooring ASD 3212 style.
More just recently, ECO has actually won a high account, long-term agreement in Alaska, which Crowley has actually held because 1990. Under the agreement, ECO will certainly be taking control of the ship escort-response obligations out of Valdez, Prince William Sound, from July 2018, For the agreement ECO will certainly call for 9, high-powered companion yanks, which be included 4 ASD 3212 yanks with a bollard pull of 70 tonnes each as well as 5 ASD 4517 yanks with a bollard pull of 150+ tonnes. Damen keeps in mind that the last will certainly be one of the most effective ASD yanks ever before developed, as well as particularly developed for the usually tough weather in the Prince William Sound.
“Chouest was pleased to have this opportunity to take Damen’s proven hull design and helped create a new, state-of-the-art escort design representing the most powerful ASD tug ever designed or built,” claimed Gary Chouest, President/ CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of Edison Chouest Offshore.
The agreement for the yanks was taken care of by Damen’s brand-new Area Support workplace in Houston, Texas, which was simply lately opened up August 1. The opening of the workplace notes the Dutch shipbuilding team’s very first venture right into the United States market. In the 3 months because its opening, Damen has actually currently won orders for the building and construction of 27 move 4 various united state shipyards.
