Northumberland joint venture produces marine vessel

Northumberland joint venture produces marine vessel

Postby Whickham » Wed Sep 04, 2013 10:55 am

Northumberland joint venture produces marine vessel

A marine vessel for work in hazardous areas has been produced by a joint venture between two Northumberland engineering companies.

Blyth-based boat builder Alnmaritec and Ashington-based A-Belco Group joined forces for the production of a line and hose handling boat to be installed on the floating production, storage and offloading vessel N’GOMA.

The twin diesel engine vessel has been certified for work in extreme hazardous areas.

It is currently under construction at the Keppel shipyard in Singapore but is due to be stationed off the Angolan coast from 2014.

Andy Clark, operations director at Alnmaritec, said: "We'd designed and constructed such vessels before but had always had problems with suppliers of the electrical equipment which are so important on projects like this.

"We were therefore very pleased to find the A-Belco Group virtually on our doorstep and it has been incredibly helpful throughout the whole design and production process."

The vessel is the 25th 'Wave Handler' class boat Alnmaritec has produced.

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I presume it means that the FPSO is under construction in Singapore, rather than the Wave Handler
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