PORT & QUAYSIDE British Ports Welcome New Pilot
Transfer Vessels Shipyards in the UK and Ireland are building pilot transfer vessels with high speeds and low emissions as ports modernise their fleets.
Associated British Ports (ABP) is in the middle of a long- term fleet expansion and modernisation campaign for its marine service vessels. It took delivery of Terra Nova pilot boat 13 June aſter its construction by Goodchild Marine, with the handover at Seawork 2023 exhibition in Southampton, UK in front of UK minister for business and trade Nusrat Ghani.
This is the fiſth ORC 136 design pilot vessel, at 14m by 5m, being constructed for ABP by the shipyard near Great Yarmouth, UK, and it will be mobilised to Barry, South Wales.
Goodchild is building four more of these pilot boats for ABP, plus three vessels of another ORC design for operations out of three different ports on the English south coast.
ABP sold two of its 2003-built pilot boats to Williams Shipping in the past year, with the shipowner adding Willstrive and Willserve to its fleet.
Williams Shipping Managing Director for Marine, Philip Williams told Riviera Maritime Media it provides pilot services for Portsmouth International Port with Willserve and 2022-built Willfreedom, where it can use the quayside electricity source for power requirements at berth. Willstrive is providing pilot services out of the port of Southampton.
The Hampshire, UK-headquartered company works closely with tug owner SMS Towage in Portsmouth, which also charges its tugboats from the quayside facilities in the harbour to manoeuvre and dock ships.
In January 2023, Williams Shipping welcomed workboat Willsupport into its fleet working in Pembroke, Wales.
This vessel is of a Meercat RT18 design with two 45-tonnes cranes and a 10-tonne deck winch.
Cork, Ireland-headquartered Safehaven Marine is building harbour service vessels for ports in Africa, with deliveries scheduled for this year and 2024. It is building a third launch vessel for Boluda Maritime to an Interceptor 48 design for operations in Tangier, Morocco, for Q3 2023 delivery. Safehaven said these vessels run on Caterpillar C9.3 engines, with ZF gearboxes and conventional shaſt drives, with a maximum speed of 24 knots.
Aſter this, the shipyard will build another Interceptor 48 for Svitzer’s operations in Tangier for delivery Q4 2023. Safehaven is building a similar pilot boat for P&O Maritime Logistics to operate in Mozambique for 2023 delivery, and one for operations in Ferrol, Spain for 2024 completion. Five of these pilot vessels currently operate in Spain and seven in Portugal.
In the Netherlands, Nauplius Workboats has completed the second vessel, Isaac Eslea, for Scottish owner Inverlussa Marine Services to support offshore fish farms. This 27m by 13m vessel is the sister ship to Eloise Eslea, which was delivered in November 2022, and takes the number of vessels owned and operated by Inverlussa to 20.
Both vessels have the latest battery-hybrid technology to reduce the vessel’s carbon footprint and increase operational utilisation, improve crew safety and comfort on board.
Going forward, NorthStandard aims to build a team of local experts in Seoul who are familiar with the local shipping market.
In addition to directly entered business, NorthStandard has a successful joint venture arrangement with the Korea P&I club, established in 2016. Korea ranks second globally in shipbuilding, aſter China, and is the fourth-largest ship- owning nation, aſter China, Greece, and Japan.
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