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couple of years. STX Finland owns ice. They are multipurpose vessels, even in heavy waves. The vessel two other shipyards in Finland - capable of carrying various types measures 76.4m in length and 20.5m

Turku and Rauma, but these special- of cargo and equipped for oil spill in breadth. The three main diesel ize more in cruise ships and ferries. collection, fre fghting, and rescue generator sets have a total power of 9

STX Finland also has a 71% interest operations. The rescue capacity is for MW. Total propulsion power is about

Production in Aker Arctic Technology. 195 persons. 7 MW.

Arctech Helsinki has just com- Arctech Helsinki is also participat- pleted two icebreaking offshore ing in the construction of an ice- TTS Group supply vessels for Sovcomfot (SCF breaking multipurpose emergency The TTS Group is headquartered in

Group). The vessels will supply and rescue vessel (yard No. 508) for Bergen, Norway, but has subsidiaries

ExxonMobil’s Arkutun Dagi oil and the Russian Ministry of Transport. in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy, gas feld in the Sakhalin area in The contract is a joint one with Czech Republic, Greece, US, China,

Far East Russia. The Vitus Bering United Shipbuilding Corp. subsid- Korea, Vietnam and Singapore. TTS (yard No. 506) was delivered ahead iary Shipyard Yantar JSC. The vessel Group CEO Johannes D Neteland of schedule in December. Its sister will be delivered to the customer in has a target to make the group a €1 vessel Alexei Chrikov (yard No. 507) December 2013. The hull of the ves- billion company by 2016 through was due for delivery last month. sel is being built by Shipyard Yantar. organic growth within offshore and

Both vessels for Sovcomfot will be The outftting and fnalizing of the port, strategic acquisitions in the similar measuring 99m in length and vessel will be done by Arctech in marine sector, and increased service 21.7m in breadth. Their four engines Helsinki. volume all over. He sees supplying have the total power of 18,000 kW The design of the vessel is based equipment to the offshore rig market and the propulsion power of 13,000 on the ARC 100 concept, which as an obvious choice for growth.

kW. They are both equipped with has been developed by Aker Arctic Neteland describes TTS’ market two 6.5 MW Azipod VI (ice version) Technology for the Arctech Helsinki potential within offshore heavy lifts units supplied by ABB. These ves- shipyard. The vessel features a as sizeable, and characterizes a crane sels have been designed for extreme patented oblique design with asym- contract with Sigma Drilling last environmental conditions. They will metric hull and three azimuthing December as a landmark deal. TTS be operating in thick drifting ice in propulsors, which allow the vessel Offshore Handling Equipment will temperatures as cold as minus 35° C. to operate effciently ahead, astern supply the total crane package for

The vessels’ main role is to sup- and obliquely (sideways). The vessel a Sigma drillship, including a state ply the gas production platform can proceed on a continuous mode of the art subsea crane with active and to protect it from the ice. The in 1m-thick level ice both ahead and heave compensation. TTS invested icebreaking capability of the vessels astern and in oblique mode it will be US$5 million in Sigma Drilling at the is extremely high. They are able to able to generate 50m-wide channel time of the order. operate independently in 1.7m-thick in 0.6m level ice. The value of the Sigma contract

The vessel will be used in ice- is around NKr130 million (US$23 breaking operations, sea towing of million), but according to Neteland,

Icebreaking supply vessels and NB506 vessels, foating facilities, and also the underlying value to TTS is even

NB507 will be used year-round on the features a very advanced oil recov- greater: “This could well prove to be the Sakhalin-1 Arkutun-Dagi oil and ery system suitable for operation our golden ticket to an offshore rig (Image: Arctech Helsinki) gas feld. market where the word promising might be an understatement.” He estimates that some 30 new drill- ships are built a year. “If TTS can win crane contracts for only a few of these projects annually, things can really get moving.” At the time of writing, TTS is involved in eight ten- ders for crane packages for offshore rigs.

The second main ingredient found in the 2016 master plan is increased service volume, the proft margins within service and after-market sales being relatively higher than for new equipment. The TTS board of directors has recently approved

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