Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) will use the SeaZip 4 (built 2015) for its annual project activities in the North Sea during the summer months.

The latest agreement marks the company’s debut in the international oil and gas industry.

Jan Reier Arends, managing director of SeaZip, said: “In the build-up to this project we passed all the audits that were required.

“I am proud to learn that a leading market participant such as HCM has indicated that we have also managed to perform the practical test in 24/7 services properly.”

SeaZip Offshore is a Dutch company founded in 2010 by the shipping entrepreneurs JR Arends and Sander Schakelaar and has a fleet of eight vessels.