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Martin Sundgot Hansen sales manager aftermarket Ulstein Verft

Representatives from Olympic and Ulstein Verft in the Ulstein

Verft dock hall

Photo courtesy Per Eide Studio/UlsteinPhoto courtesy Ulstein Verft and rescue vessels. These include the recently completed installation of an ad-

Another more extensive upgrade is currently in prog- justable pedestal for the gangway and a 50% increase in ress in Ulsteinvik. The shipyard is currently engaged in single cabins for charterers, providing accommodation for the upgrading of the Service Operation Vessel (SOV), 60 persons. This will mean a change in the vessel’s status

Windea Leibniz, built in 2017, which features a TWIN from SOV to Construction SOV (CSOV).

X-STERN. This unique Ulstein hull form provides the In another upgrade, early in 2022, Norway’s Norside vessel, managed by Bernhard Schulte Offshore, with Wind AS opted to convert the platform supply vessel, signi?cantly better seakeeping qualities, widening the Farland, into a walk-to-work vessel for the offshore wind weather window. sector. The vessel, of Ulstein PX121 design, has been

The SOV has already worked successfully for Siemens equipped with a motion-compensated gangway, an Access

Gamesa on the Sandbank and DanTysk wind farms in & Cargo Tower, a new accommodation module, and a bat- the German North Sea. But her operational window will tery package. The converted vessel will now operate under now be signi?cantly increased by a series of modi?cations. the name Norside Cetus.

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