CREW TRANSFER
Fleet expansion as contracts sail in
Crew transfer vessel operator Rix Sea Shuttle is planning to expand its fleet after landing a string of contracts in Europe and the UK. The company, part of J.R. & Rix & Sons Ltd, currently owns four boats – the Rix Cheetah, Rix Panther, Rix Tiger and the Rix Lion – but as the contracts sail in it is drawing up plans for further investment.
VESSEL SPECIFICATION
According to managing director James Doyle, the new vessel will be similar to the company’s most recent purchase, the Rix Lion. At 26m, the £3m Fast Crew Supplier (FSC) 2610 from Dutch ship builder Damen, which was delivered in July last year, is seven metres longer than the company’s other boats, providing a deck area of 90m2
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James commented: “The Rix Lion is proving to be precisely the vessel that the market is demanding and is working regularly in Denmark and Germany now, as well as the UK.
“Our outlook for the business is increasingly global so the versatility of the larger boat means it can work in more places, therefore it makes sense for us to invest in another, similar vessel.
“With more work in the pipeline we will need extra resources soon because our current boats are getting very busy.”
FLEET GROWTH
James said Rix Sea Shuttle was in the early stages of drawing up plans for the new vessel and would be looking to place an order later this year and added that with a string of contracts under the company’s belt at Gwynt y Mor, LID, Lincs, Walney and others, the fleet will need to grow sooner rather than later.
Rix Sea Shuttle
James continued “There will come a time fairly soon when four boats are not enough. The smaller vessels, the Panther, Tiger and Cheetah, will most likely work at windfarms off the UK coast and the Lion, which is certified and the new vessel, which will also be certified, will work abroad where there is a lot of call for larger boats. That is how we see the fleet developing.
EXCITING TIMES AHEAD
“We are currently tendering for a lot of work, much of it we are confident of getting and with the existing contracts in place we are looking at a very exciting and busy year ahead.” James concluded.
The Rix Lion, the largest boat in Rix Sea Shuttle’s crew transfer fleet.
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