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LOGISTICS


FEATURE SPONSOR GRASPING


OPPORTUNITIES A continuing success story


VISIONARY VESSELS WITH A DISTINCT DESIGN


Seahorse Marine relocated to Hull in 2010 from Western Canada. It brought to the city famed for its maritime and ship building heritage, a track record of designing and building commercial workboats, and supplying design consultancy to both international companies and government agencies.


MEETING CUSTOMERS’ OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS


The Seahorse workboat is designed to operate within environments that demand a stable and reliable working platform where minimal maintenance, reliability and safety are paramount. Constructed using high-density polyethylene (HDPE), the material provides tremendous strength and intact buoyancy without compromising versatility and durability. Combining technology and a focused


approach to quality, the company excels at adapting design and construction techniques to meet their customers’ operational requirements within a competitive cost and build schedule.


MATCHING INDUSTRY GROWTH


As the Humber renewable industry grows, so does the growth of Seahorse Marine’s global customer base; fast crew transfer vessels (Marine Harvest, Scottish Seafarms), landing craft/survey support vessels (Van Oord in the Caspian Sea), patrol vessels (SEPA/African governments), dive support vessels and overseas passenger ferries, strengthening the company’s reputation as the preferred HDPE workboat manufacturer.


FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH SCAN/CLICK


Moving from strength to strength, Seahorse Marine debuted summer 2016 a new vessel design; the Seahorse Sidewinder, a workboat offering increased stability, deck space, chime beam


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and buoyancy. Responding to client requirements, the Sidewinder’s hull design provides enhanced seakeeping ability without sacrificing crew comfort in the harsh open seas.


SPECIFICATION


Designed as a practical vessel to meet multiple operational requirements using modular structures, bow options include a configuration to sit alongside turbine towers or a landing craft multi-category vessel, LOA <18m, and a beam of <3.5m. Fitted with Almarinjet’s Intelligent Operation total propulsion control system, the Sidewinder is the first HDPE workboat to be fitted with the only twin joystick waterjet system.


VERSATILITY


A simple and intuitive system, it makes manoeuvring effortless, whether travelling at speed in open water or positioning and maintaining the vessel in tight spaces for example, near turbine towers. With attainable speeds >32 knots it can perform fast response duties to return casualties to shore.


This positions Seahorse Marine as


‘breaking the mould’ in commercial workboat design.


Some 5 years ago, Tidal Transit was one of the first companies in the UK to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the development of windfarms in the North Sea. The North Norfolk company that started out as a charter fishing company, made a serious investment to take up the challenge of providing vessels to this nascent industry. It now charters purpose-designed boats and crews to both developers and operators of offshore windfarms.


UK WATERS


Tidal Transit’s Commercial Director, Leo Hambro comments: “There are 3 main hubs in the UK for offshore wind; Liverpool Bay, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth, and the Humber Estuary. Since 2012 we have been working out of the Port of Grimsby, and have completed contracts with RES to service the met masts at Hornsea, Docking Shoal, Race Bank and Lincs offshore windfarms. “We have also fulfilled contracts with Siemens and Dawson Energy working on the Westermost Rough offshore windfarm.”


VESSEL CAPABILITY


Despite its vessels having the capability of working up to 150 miles out to sea, Tidal Transit’s attention over the past five years has been focused mainly on projects that have been sited within 20 miles of the coast. But again working from Grimsby, Tidal Transit vessels have demonstrated their capabilities as longer distance support vessels which will be able to support the next round of offshore windfarms much further out to sea. Amongst other contracts, Tidal Transit has completed five visits for ‘met mast’ monitoring equipment upgrades at the Dogger Bank and Hornsea offshore windfarm sites, both located far from the UK’s eastern coast.


GRIMSBY RENEWABLES PARTNERSHIP


With Grimsby becoming a key player in offshore renewable energy, the Grimsby Renewables Partnership has been


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