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OFFSHORE WIND VESSELS

Louis Dreyfus Armateurs owned SOV Wind of Change

Cemre Shipyard ? exible offshore crane is also installed, adding lifting capacity older, less ef? cient and generally would not easily ? t the re- and contributing to more ? exibility in operations. quirements described above.” He also cautioned that “OSV/

Maritime Reporter asked Daniel Holmes, Business Devel- PSV conversions require a substantial rework of the structure, opment Manager, North America, Marine & Offshore from new systems, removal of tanks along with complete re-work

Bureau Veritas (BV) about the feasibility of widescale conver- of the forward accommodation. The required plan review and sions of underemployed offshore oil and gas service vessels certi? cation, in addition to the shipyard work, would likely for use in the wind trades. He was not overly optimistic. “In not be an attractive proposition – despite the high cost of U.S. terms of conversion of OSV/PSVs one has to look at the wider new construction.” market. Existing vessels that could be effective candidates for conversion are likely employed in their current mode; those Europe Scales Up Too vessels that are not currently employed will be those that are European owners have scaled up. In 2018, Østensjø had www.marinelink.com 37

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