Havyard Newbuild Goes for Charter

FAFNIR OFFSHORE AND REMØY MANAGEMENT have secured a six year (180 days a year) back-to-back time charter contract with the Governor on Svalbard for FAFNIR’s newly commissioned platform supply vessel. The ship is a Havyard 832L WE design. It is an Ice Class B vessel and can accommodate 30 people.

The ship is 88.5 meter long and 17.6 meter wide. The deck area is 850 square meters with a modular helideck. The ship is equipped with a fire fighting unit, an emergency oil recovery system, a dynamic-positioning system (DP2) for optimal position keeping during operations, refueling system for Jet A-1 fuel, and a night vision detection system for identifying people, oil, and ice in the dark. On board there is a twin-jet rescue boat as well as two work, search, and rescue boats.

The ship will service the Arctic island Spitsbergen 180 days a year, first season beginning spring 2014. On their website the Ministry of Justice and Public Security in Norway stated that the new ship and two helicopters will strengthen the service in the Svalbard region substantially. The vessel will, in addition to servicing Spitsbergen, patrol, prevent pollution, conduct rescue services, and monitor environmental developments in the Svalbard archipelago, Bear Island, and Hopen.

REMØY MANAGEMENT AS will operate the ship during the lifetime of the contract.

The contract is extendable two times two years and is valued at 329.3 million NOK ($56.5 million US).

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Press Release, April 12, 2013