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he naming ceremony of the

Bibby WaveMaster 1 took place on September 6 at the

T cruise terminal in the Port of Rotterdam in front of more than 125 guests from the U.K.-based Bibby

Group, Damen and a range of industry partners. More than 10 members of the

Bibby family attended while the Da- men family was represented by Chief

Commercial Of? cer Arnout Damen.

The naming, by Lady Sponsor Jacky

Blaikie, is the culmination of a pro- gram that began nearly four years ago to develop a vessel that could meet the needs of the offshore wind industry in an ef? cient, economic and environ- mentally-responsible way.

The Bibby WaveMaster 1 is the ? rst of Damen’s new class of purpose-built

Service Operations Vessels (SOV) with

Walk-to-Work (W2W) capability. The

Damen Group identi? ed the need for such a vessel in 2013 following consul- tations within the offshore renewables industry and launched a research pro- gram that set out to develop an entirely new concept from the ground up in cooperation with a number of key sup- pliers.

The design that came out of this process combined DP-2 and a new

Bibby motion-compensated gangway with an innovative hull design, a revolution- ary internal layout, and a comprehen- sive range of additional innovations designed to increase ef? ciencies and

Wavemaster 1 reduce costs.

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