Singaporean shipbuilder Strategic Marine studies it has secured an order to assemble a newbuild crew switch vessel (CTV) for the Polish offshore wind sector.
The order comes from LOTOS Petrobaltic S.A., an ORLEN Group firm, and can see the brand new vessel—a BMT-designed StratCat 27—delivered to Europe in September of this yr.
This CTV will be a part of the fleet managed by Miliana Shipmanagement Limited, owned by the LOTOS Petrobaltic capital group, which owns 5 offshore vessels. Technical Ship Management (TSM) might be accountable for the technical administration of the vessel.
The vessel will reportedly be the primary of its sort to service Poland’s offshore wind farm market. It will enter service within the North Sea earlier than going to work within the Polish unique financial zone of the Baltic Sea.
“The contract for the construction of a new CTV StratCat 27 vessel for Miliana Shipmanagement is another step for us towards developing our activities in the MEW sector and creating a fleet of vessels servicing Polish offshore wind farms,” stated Grzegorz Strzelczyk, President of the Management Board of LOTOS Petrobaltic S.A.
Strzelczyk famous the agency intends to order further CTVs sooner or later.
The StratCat 27 can accommodate as much as 9 crew members and 24 passengers, and this explicit vessel is is constructed with strengthened hull plating to function within the extra extreme situations of the Baltic Sea.
The StratCat 27 CTV meets IMO Tier III emission necessities and is “hybrid-ready”, that means it’s constructed with area to accommodate a hybrid propulsion system at a later stage.
