New contracts for OSD

摘要

Netherlands-based tug and OSV design specialist Offshore Ship Designers (OSD) has received the go ahead to design a new 44m anchor handling tug (AHT) offshore support vessel for Dutch operator Neptune Marine Service. Upon delivery, the AHT will be utilised for anchor handling, ocean towage and wind farm construction support activities. The vessel will feature a bollard pull capacity of 70tonnes and feature accommodation for 22 persons, while the inclusion of two main propellers with nozzles and three transverse thrusters is intended to grant her DP-1 station keeping ability. At time of going to press, OSD claimed that it would deliver the detailed design of the vessel in October this year, and launch and delivery have been pencilled in for the second half of 2012.