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SHIP REPAIR & CONVERSION ‘Like Other OSVs’

With innovation in its Norwegian DNA, Uksnoy Shipping took a chemical tanker and made it into an Offshore Service Vesel with an innovative propulsion system.

By William Stoichevski, Norway (Photo courtesy Uksnoy Shipping)

In its former life, Uksnoy Shipping’s seismic support vessel Rig Adromeda was a Turkish-built chemical tanker, converted to an Offshore Service Vessel with a twist: an innovative permanent-magnet propulsion system from Inpower.

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