Garden City, N.Y., headquartered McQuilling Renewables has actually gotten to an arrangement that will certainly see SEACOR Marine offer technological and functional monitoring of vessels run by brand-new Jones Act CTV gamer Blue Ocean Transfers (CRAWLER).
According to a McQuilling Renewables news, “through this collaboration, BOT will deliver high-quality transport and transfer services for cargo and personnel to and from U.S. offshore wind fields on U.S. flag Jones Act compliant newbuild vessels.”
“The vision of Blue Ocean Transfers is to provide developers and their suppliers with competitive charter hire, as well as the superior reliability and availability that come from deployment and operation of a technically robust fleet of CTVs,” states the news. “BOT is a marine logistics equipment manager, whose equipment is chartered and deployed by wind field developers and their suppliers. The BOT business model leverages the specific knowledge, experience and skills of different organizations. It brings together targeted expertise in capital deployment, financing, ship construction, vessel management and commercial employment and is designed to ensure scalability to support a growing CTV market while providing competitive hire rates to charterers on safe, reliable and modern crew transfer vessels.”
John Schmidt, chief executive officer of robot’s moms and dad business McQuilling Partners, stated, “We are delighted to have SEACOR Marine join the BOT platform. Their deep expertise and acumen operating offshore supply vessels in U.S. and international waters as well as their previous CTV experience bring tier-one levels of equipment reliability and availability to BOT’s services and will increase our competitiveness in this expanding market.”
“We are excited to support the BOT model for CTV deployment in the emerging U.S. offshore wind industry,” stated John Gellert, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of SEACORMarine “Our technical, operational and sustainability expertise, combined with BOT’s financial, commercial and project management experience will provide innovative solutions in the marine logistics supply chain for U.S. offshore wind.”
You can find out more regarding Blue Ocean Transfers and its planned fleet on its website.