Turkey's Karadeniz Group has added another platform supply vessel (PSV) to its fleet as it lines up another powership conversion.
The company told TradeWinds it bought the 8,255-dwt Crest Angelica (built 2012) and plans to turn it into a vessel with fully-integrated mounted floating power plants that supply electricity to shore communities.
Karadeniz would not comment on its future needs for tonnage to be converted. The company is listed with 23 Powerships among its mixed fleet.
The vessel was sold by Strato Maritime of Singapore, but brokers did not cite a price.
The unit has been renamed Karadeniz Powership Alper Bay. It is moored in Turkey currrently.
VesselsValue assesses the ship as worth $11.1m.
Strato is owned by Pacific Radiance and has 23 other offshore ships and an FSO.
Ships leaving the sector
Offshore shipowners had been keen to sell vessels out of the sector to reduce tonnage lists in an over-supplied oil and gas market.
But the coronavirus outbreak and the oil price fall has made fleet reduction even more imperative.
The renewables and acquaculture sectors have also provided routes out of traditional offshore markets for some vessels and their owners.
Last May, Karadeniz told TradeWinds it had acquired a PSV from the fleet of Greece's bankrupt Toisa.
The company's Karpowership Americas unit had been linked by brokers to an auction purchase of the 5,300-dwt Toisa Serenade (built 2008) at $750,000.
A previously reported sale of the vessel to China Sunrise had been put at $3.5m.
VesselsValue (VV) had assessed the ship as being worth $5.1m.
The month before, it added an EMAS Offshore vessel to its fleet to support its powership operations.
The 220-bp anchor-handler Lewek Trogon (built 2008) was bought for an undisclosed price.
SeaOwl sheds anchor-handler
Karadeniz said this vessel would be used for towing operations and as a support vessel for powerships during its offshore operations.
Brokers also reported another offshore vessel sale, with the 12,000-hp anchor-handling tug supply ship VN Sapeur (built 1985) going to a company named as Star Matrix.
The seller is SeaOwl of France. VesselsValue assesses the ship as worth $760,000m.
SeaOwl has three other AHTS units and a PSV.
