Offshore staff
DE MEERN, the Netherlands – Jan De Nul Group has moved its fleet of 82 vessels and jackup barges to Castor Marine’s global VSAT and Iridium connectivity network.
Castor Marine is now providing VSAT internet and Iridium L-Band services to the offshore construction vessels, crane vessels, environmental support vessels and dredgers, which operate globally.
The company migrated 98% of the fleet within three months of the contract signing, performing up to six migrations a day.
This is a tailored VSAT solution, with the quality of services specified on the customer’s VLAN level, allowing Jan De Nul Group to scale up, based on each vessel’s high bandwidth demands.
Included in the internet package are onboard voice services based on local Belgian telephone numbers, allowing calls to be made at local rates.
Alongside the VSAT, Iridium and VoIP services, Castor Marine delivered 15 new Sailor 900 VSAT antennas and Sailor 4300 Iridium Certus antennas to replace existing hardware onboard.
For the newbuild offshore jackup installation vessel Voltaire and the offshore heavy-lift vessel Les Alizés, Castor Marine supplied new antenna systems based on the recently launched Sailor 1000 XTR VSAT antennas, including below deck equipment.
10/05/2021
