To give you a better
impression of our activities - please find below some of
our projects as done in the last few years:
Projects :
On behalf of the French navy we performed a few towage contracts with tug Boxer.
At first, the naybarge Dino was towed from Brest to St Nazaire and in direct continuation
a newbuilt hull (half vessel) was towed from St Nazaire to Brest.
On the picture you can see two additional floating volumes on each side of the bow
in order to create extra b uoyancy.
In Cherbourg a submarine section (dimensions 5.9 x 5.8 x 6.2 mtrs - weight 31ts ) was
loaded for destination Cartagena (Spain) - transport was performed by vessel CEC Century.
As from May 2005 we have arranged two shipments of concrete mats from Peterhead
(Scotland) to Onne (Nigeria). These concrete mats are used to cover and protect subsea
pipelines offshore Nigeria.. The vessels BP Trader and Feedstar were contracted with
Vertom in Rotterdam to perform these transports..
In August a third and final shipment will be done by a similar type of coaster.
In Dubai we loaded the workboat "Marineco India" for destination Rotterdam - transport
was performed by mv "Annegret". After Marineco India was safely afloat at Rotterdam
she sailed for her final destination Scotland.
In May the final voyage for the "Snohvit-project" was performed. In total 7 voyages
were executed with several pontoons from Ugland and the tugs RT Magic, RT Spirit,
Varius and Alfons Letzer were all contracted in close co-operation with Kotug..
The last voyage from Heerema Zwijndrecht to Hammerfest was done with tug Alfons Letzer
and the largest Ugland pontoon UR 161 (dimensions 100 x 37 x 7 mtrs).
On board were 4 modules of which the largest piece weighing 1623 tons had a tota
height of more than 27 mtrs .
For Boa Offshore A/S we arranged for towage of the newbuilthull for Boa Deep CII.
The hull and helideck were fabricated in Shanghai and the outfitting will be done
in Vigo. The hull was towed by ITC tug Sandy Cape via the Cape of Good Hope with
an average towing speed of 8 knots
Dimensions "Boa Deep CII": 138.5 x 27 x 8.8 mtrs - GT 14706
Over the last 12 months we have arranged for several tugs, barges for the "Kizomba B Tieback project" offshore Angola. This project is concerning transportation of subsea structures from USA, Europe and Angola to the Kizomba B offshore field.
The barges Boa Viking 2, 3, 5, 6, Boabarge 22, Ems Pontoon 7 and towing tugs Boa Master, Jantar, Koral, Letojanni and Augustea Quattro have been all working several months on site offshore Angola and were operating mainly out of ports of Soyo and Lobito.
From the ports of Dunkirk, Le Trait, Bayonne and Bilbao we arranged for transport of mainly pipes and smaller offshore structures to the installation vessel FDS working offshore Angola.
We contracted the coasters Memel, Feedstar and BP Trader to perform these voyages.
For the Greek Navy we arranged for the transport of a newbuilt ACL (Air Cushion Landing craft) from Shipyard St Petersburg to Piraeus. The ACL was loaded on board the submersible Boabarge 19 (136 x 36 x 9 mtrs) and the tug Varius performed the towage of the barge and left St Petersburg the 25th of November. Enroute to Pireaus the convoy had to seek shelter for approx. 2 day near Cape St Vincente (Portugal), but the cargo ACL was safely delivered at Piraeus just before Christmas.
When AHT Boa Queen was sailing back after temination of her timecharter at West Africa we managed to fix her for towage of the "Gazprom 1". This former drilling vessel was laid up at La Valetta was towed to Tampico where the ship will be converted into a crane vessel.
For one our regular clients we arranged for transport of two harbour cranes from Dunkirk to Port La Nouvelle.
For this project we contracted tug Waterman and pontoon E 3004. Athough convoy had to shelter for a number of days at Cherbourg and La Corunna due to severe weatherconditions the cranes were safely delivered at Port La Nouvelle.
Through various parties involved we contracted tug Varius and Boabarge 20 for transport of a newbuilt air cushion boat (acb) for the Greek navy. The ACB was built at St Petersburg and had to be delivered at Pireaus. Although the weather restrictions during transport were quite limited the convoy had to shelter for 2 days only at the south coast of portugal and the ACB was safely discharged on Christmas day after a 30 days journey.
Transport of newbuilding hulls and pontoons on board
"Marinus Green"
from Shanghai to Rotterdam.
Transport of newbuilding hulls and pontoons on board
"Boabarge 20 ""
from Shanghai to Rotterdam. For towage of this barge we contracted tug De
Hong.
Transport of newbuilding hulls and pontoons on board
"UR 93" and "UR 94"
from Shanghai to Rotterdam. For this tandem towage we contracted tug De
Jin.
For the above mentioned projects we were also involved in
discharging operations of this floating equipment and further onward transportation, storage, clearance, etc.
For Western Geco we arranged transport of "Coastal
Liner" from Sea of Azov back to Rotterdam on board coaster "Quo
Vadis".
The last few years we have been active for
varous shipbuilders in West France for transports of shipsections by means
of variuos flattop pontoons and tugs such as "Coastal carrier I"
and "Coastal Force" (see below picture).
Time charter of AHT tug Zeus for Account of Transocean
Sedcoforex
For several dredging companied we arrranged for transport
of dredging materials:
from Zeebrugge to Ireland and back to Zeebrugge
from Huelva + Valencia to Ashdod, Israel
from Flushing to Zeebrugge
On behalf of Three Quays Marine Service we provided all
logistics and seafastening of
one unfinished newbuilding yacht which was loaded into the famous Dok V of
Verolme which
was transported as one complete package on board Blue Marlin from Rotterdam
to Dubai.
For a Spanish Forwarding Company we transported
brand new columms for the Lyondell factory at Rotterdam. Columms were
transported on board boa barge 17. We also contracted tug Barracuda for
towage of this barge (see picture).
For the Owners of the floating crane "Donna
Felicia" we arranged a dry tansport from Constantza to St Martha,
Columbia.
After discharging at ST Maria, Boabarge 7 and tug Boa Prince sailed onwards
to Buenos Aires to load Jackup barge "JUP 111" for Stolt Offshore
and transported this one safely to Douala in Cameroon.
On the ballast trip back to Stavanger we also arranged for a crane move of
two container
cranes at Las Palmas.
We contracted AHT Kigoria for towage of
LB 4000 from Gdansk to Setubal (via Bergen).
About 6 months later when LB 4000 was completely refurbished at the yard in
Setubal
we contracted tug Suhaili for onward towage to Angola.
For one of our Mexican clients we contracted the tug Smitwijs Singapore
for towage of Accomodation
rig Borgholm Dolphin from Haugesund to the Bay of Campeche.
After a succesful charter of almost 2 years; we again contracted SW
Singapore to tow
back "The Dolphin" to Belfast.
We arranged for a transport of some splitbarges and a
crane vessel owned bij Beheermij.
BV van Dijke from Rotterdam to Takoradi in Ghana.
At the North Sea we have also been active in variuos
transports of cranes.
We shipped a Gottwald crane from Rotterdam to Hamburg for HAPO barges and
for SNCM-LMI we arranged for a transport of two cranes from Dunkirk to
Cherbourg (see pictures)
For the well known America's Cup Winning Team Allinghi we did various
transports of their two identical racing yachts, following boats
and loose equipment.
We did the pre-haulage from Cherbourg to Antwerp on board coaster Lis Weber
whereafter
we arranged for onward shipment to Los Angeles.
For Account Saipem Sa we contracted various tugs and
barges to transport the Jackets for
the Yoho project at Nigeria. Tugs Salvage Champion, Augustea Quattro,
Simoon and Suhail
were contracted to tow the loaded barges Boa 28, Boa 7 and 9 and Boa 21
from US Gulf
and Malaysia to the Yoho offshore field at Nigeria.
On behalf of Grand Circle Cruise Line the semi submersible
vessel "Eide Transporter" was
fixed to safely transport the inland cruise vessel "Debussy" from
Fos sur Mer to Rotterdam.
For "The
World" project in Dubai we arranged transport of tug Coastal Force
and Multicat "Coastal Defender" on board Jumbo vessel
"Fairload" from Rotterdam
to Dubai.
For Boa Offshore A/S we arranged for towage of
Verolme Dok loaded on Boabarge 19 from Rotterdam to Desan yard in Tuzla. View the
dimension of the dock; the dock was cut in various pieces in order to load
and transport it safely on the barge. The Tug Englishman was contracted for
towage of the barge to Tuzla and empty back to Stavanger.
At request of Ugland we arranged for towages of their
laden barges from Antwerp and Rotterdam to the Melkoya LNG plant in
Hammerfest.
In close cooperation with Kotug of Rotterdam the tugs RT Magic, Alphonse
Letzer and Varius performed in total 7 towages to Norway.
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