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70 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News ? NOVEMBER 2013 to and from offshore platforms but it also offers Þ reÞ ghting and oil pollution recovery capability. Equipped with azimuth thrusters and dynamic positioning (DP2), the design is distinguished by slender hull lines to meet challenging conditions, minimize fuel consumption and to enhance crew comfort.Brazil?s Oceana Offshore will build a pair platform supply vessels (PSV) with an option for two additional vessels based on the PX105 design from Ulstein. The vessels will be built at the new yard, Oceana Shipyard in Itajai, Brazil, and are scheduled for delivery in April and May 2016, re- spectively. The PX105 design is a large platform supply vessel with accommodation for 23 people. The will measure 88.9 x 19 m. With a DWT of 4,700 tons they comply with Petrobras? PSV 4500 tender. These vessels have a high operational window and can take on complex assignments far from shore. They come with the X-BOW hull line design feature, in which slamming and abrupt stops from waves are eliminated. The vessels are cost-effective and fuel-saving, and the crews get more efÞ cient rest, which also increase safety. Island Offshore took delivery of M/V Island Duchess from the Vard Brevik yard in Norway, the second vessel in a series of four PSVs of Rolls-Royce UT 717 CD design to be delivered from Vard Brevik in 2013 and 2014. M/V Island Duchess was christened together with its sister vessel M/V Island Duke during a naming ceremo- ny earlier this summer, and is heading for the spot market as soon as it leaves the yard.The vessel measures 84.5 x 17 m with a dead-weight of 3,800 tonnes and a deck capacity of 800 sq. m. M/V Island Duchess will be used to trans- port pipes and general deck load, liquid cargo as well as cement and barite to drilling rigs in the North Sea. Oceaneering International selected BAE Sys-Offshore Service Vessel Technology(Photo courtesy of Leevac Shipyards) MV Torrens Tide launch. Artist rendering of the subsea support vessel BAE Systems will build for Oceaneering International. MR #11 (66-73).indd 70MR #11 (66-73).indd 7011/12/2013 10:38:36 AM11/12/2013 10:38:36 AM