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LOGISTICS VESSEL SPECIFICATION


Being of rugged GRP construction, Tidal Transit’s vessels are able to operate in rough seas. Twin V12 MAN engines facilitate speeds of up to 27 knots when carrying twelve passengers, the crew and their on-board cargo. Massive cargo decks fore and aft can accommodate up to 10,000kg of tools, equipment and spares and the Guerra crane on the fore deck has a lifting capacity of 1,025kg at 6.9m, which caters for long reach loading and unloading. Cranes can also be deployed for camera surveys and grab sampling.


CURRENT FLEET


Tidal Transit currently has four PTVs which have been in full employment, both locally on Greater Gabbard and Sheringham Shoal and further afield on Gwynt y Môr off the Welsh coast and Westermost Rough north of the Humber Estuary, since they arrived in the UK from the Spanish shipyard where they were constructed.


“Our vessels offer a lot in the way of comfort and well-being for our crew and passengers,” says Leo Hambro. “They have good overnight accommodation and excellent leisure and cooking facilities. However, health and safety is our priority. We achieved our first 10,000 safe transfers in June 2013, the next 10,000 in December of the same year and by the end of December 2014, this figure exceeded 38,200. We are extremely proud of this record.


MEDICAL CARE – FIRST RESPONDERS “Offshore wind farm developers and operators became increasingly aware of a significant risk of an inability to administer advanced medical care in the face of injury while on site, due to the remote location of some wind farms. Anticipated response times could be anything up to 1½ hours from local life boats and SAR helicopters. Tidal Transit now provides First Responders as part of its regular crews, which affords a faster medical response and will provide wind farm constructors and operators with a long term and sustainable solution to Health and Safety.”


MAXIMISING EFFICIENCY – CONTROLLING COSTS He goes on to say: “We are always looking at ways to provide value for money; vessel charter is a costly business for wind farm companies, so to maximise efficiency while at sea, two of our four PTVs carry the necessary equipment to provide 3D seabed mapping and can undertake survey work while on site or in the cable corridor.”


SUCCESSFUL LOGISTICS Successful logistics, especially in the challenging areas such as the world’s oceans, rely on good communications, excellent equipment and highly trained personnel. When the sea and the weather are your partners, conditions may not always be ideal and whilst the weather cannot be regulated, Tidal Transit’s strives to maximise the efficiency of offshore wind farm developers and operators in every way possible.


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