ESVAGT will operate the vessels and deliver services in connection with maintenance of offshore windmill installations. The vessels are due to be delivered from Havyard Ship Technology`s shipyard in Leirvik in Sogn, Norway in December 2014 and March 2015. The vessels will become newbuilds 118 and 119 from Havyard Ship Technology.
ESVAGT is a new customer for Havyard and it is also the first time Havyard will design vessels for service and maintenance of offshore windmills. The basis for this design, however, is taken from technology that Havyard has developed and delivered to the offshore oil industry through time.
– We are very pleased by agreeing this contract with ESVAGT for delivery of their new windmill service vessels , says Sales Manager Gisle Vinjevoll Thrane of Havyard Design and Solutions. – We have worked with ESVAGT and these projects over a long period of time and it has been a demanding process. ESVAGT is a very competent and professional customer and is a market leader within their field of expertise. This is both challenging and rewarding.
– Havyard 832 SOV has been designed based on specifications from ESVAGT and together with our solid competence within shipbuilding and design of advanced offshore vessels; we have together made a product that the market demands.
ESVAGT is a new customer for Havyard and through this cooperation a potential new market with great future opportunities opens up. Energy from offshore windmills is a rapidly increasing market and through this contract we have a good starting point together with market leaders.
– We know that we are competitive as we have agreed a contract with ESVAGT, and in this cooperation we will need to be at our best to meet their expectations. These are the kind of challenges and recognition we are striving towards and we are looking forward to a long and solid cooperation with ESVAGT, Sales Manager Thrane says.
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Press release, July 12, 2013; Image: havyard