Offshore staff
ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands – Fairstar Heavy Transport expects to take delivery of the newbuild 50,000 dwt semisubmersible transportation vessel Forte on May 23.
The vessel is under construction by Guangzhou Shipbuilding International (GSI) in China.
Fairstar COO Willem Out said: “Forte will sail straight away to a module fabrication yard in north Asia to load her first cargo for the Gorgon LNG Project [offshore Western Australia] and is under contract for as long as 26 months.
“High value, multi-voyage energy infrastructure projects are the focus of our future strategy. Energy majors and the engineering companies managing the construction of multi-billion dollar energy projects are becoming increasingly selective in the vessels qualified to provide marine transportation services of large modules.
“Most of the tender pre-qualification documentation we have seen in the last year requires vessels to be less than 15 years old and asbestos free, as well as having an open stern capable of accommodating modules 43 m (141 ft) wide, 80 m (262 ft) long and weighing up to 12,000 metric tons (13,228 tons).”
Out added thatForte and sister newbuild vessel Finesse comply with these demands as well as providing redundancy in the propulsion and ballast systems.
01/25/2012
