Ulstein Verft signed a deal to deliver an offshore vessel to Acta Marine and forged a letter of intent to build a groundbreaking ferry for Color Line.
The Norwegian shipbuilding group said Holland's Acta Marine ordered a dynamically positioned construction support vessel for the offshore wind sector.
The order, which will use Ulstein Design & Solutions' SX195 design, opens a new market for Acta, an owner of crew transfer, barges, offshore support and other vessels.
</div><br /><p >"We are expanding our services and fleet for offshore wind and chose Ulstein for our new construction support vessel," said Acta managing director Rob Boer.</p><p >The 93.4-metre-long, 18-metre-wide vessel will include an "integrated walk-to-work" gangway system, a six-tonne crane and crew accomodations for 120 people in 80 cabins.</p><p >The vessel also will have 500 square metres of indoor cargo area and 500 square metres outdoors.</p><p >The ship, which will combine Ulstein's X-Bow and X-stern hull design, will be delivered in early 2018.</p><p ><strong>'State of the art'</strong></p><p >"Together with Acta Marine, we have developed a state-of-the-art vessel, and we are ready to build a vessel that will serve the owner well in the offshore wind industry," says Kristian Saetre, who is managing director at Ulstein.</p><p >For Norway's Color Line, Ulstein said it will build the world's largest hybrid vessel, which will have batteries powered by shore facilities or the ship's generators.</p><p >The 2,000-passenger, 500-car ropax ferry, which was designed by Fosen, will serve the route between Sandefjord and Stromstad, starting in summer 2019. It will operate under full battery power while in the fjord, with no emissions of greenhouse gases, nitrogen or sulphur.</p><style >.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }</style><div class="embed-container" ><iframe allowfullscreen="0" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sRnK0OKFaFU" width="560"/></div><br />The new ship will double the capacity of the 1,170-passenger ropax Bohus (built 1971), which will be phased out.<p >"The signing of the LOI represents a significant step to realise the world's largest plug-in hybrid ship, and it is very gratifying that the Norwegian shipbuilding industry has proved to be competitive internationally," said Color Line group president Trond Kleivdal.</p></field><tag identifier="tag:organization@tradewindsnews.com,2015:Ulstein" relevance="0.97"/><tag identifier="tag:organization@tradewindsnews.com,2015:Ulstein_Verft" relevance="0.97"/><tag identifier="tag:organization@tradewindsnews.com,2015:Acta_Marine" relevance="0.95"/><tag identifier="tag:person@tradewindsnews.com,2015:Rob_Boer" relevance="0.99"/><tag identifier="tag:person@tradewindsnews.com,2015:Kristian_Saetre" relevance="0.99"/><tag identifier="tag:organization@tradewindsnews.com,2015:Fosen" relevance="0.92"/><tag identifier="tag:regions@tradewindsnews.com,2012:Sandefjord" relevance="0.95"/><tag identifier="tag:person@tradewindsnews.com,2015:Trond_Kleivdal" relevance="0.99"/></content></escenic></div></div>
