Rolls-Royce has been awarded contracts worth around £45m for six platform supply vessels (PSV), including the first offshore orders from
CBO (Companhia Brasileira de Offshore) has ordered four UT-Design type UT 715 L offshore supply vessel design and equipment packages. The 3,000 tonne deadweight PSVs are to be built by Allianca shipyard near
The other UT-Design contract is from the Chilean shipyard Asnavales (Astilleros y Servicios Navales), which is to build two UT 745 CD (clean design) supply vessels for an international shipowner. These large PSVs mark the first time that offshore service vessels using designs and equipment from Rolls-Royce have been built in
Jørn Heltne, Vice President for Ship Technology – Offshore in Rolls-Royce, said: ‘At the end of the 1990s, CBO was the first Brazilian shipowner to have offshore service vessels built in
These new orders are in addition to ten UT-Design vessels currently under construction in
At the end of 2006, ASMAR Shipbuilding and Ship repairing Company based in
in
, won a contract to build a coastguard vessel for
, using a new UT512 L design and equipment package from Rolls-Royce.
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