Skandi-Connector

On 8th February at the Offshore Support Journal Annual Awards in London, the Maersk Connector received the Offshore Support Ship 2017 Award. The Maersk Supply Service owned vessel is the second of Damen Shipyards Group’s Offshore Carrier 8500 series and was awarded for setting an industry benchmark through its innovative design and efficiency in operation, the Group said Thursday in a press release. The Maersk Connector was built at Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania and delivered to Maersk Supply Service in 2016. Since then, she has been on long term charter with UK-based DeepOcean working on a number of projects. The design of the vessel, and her subsequent success, is the result of a close collaboration between the three parties.

DeepOcean has secured a cable installation and trenching contract from Nexans for ScottishPower Renewable’s East Anglia ONE offshore windfarm in the North Sea. Under the contract, DeepOcean’s scope is the transport, installation and trenching of export cables. The project will be managed out of the DeepOcean’s Darlington office. Offshore work will commence by 2019.

DeepOcean 1 UK Ltd., a subsidiary of the Dutch DeepOcean Group Holding BV (DeepOcean), recently held a naming ceremony for the ‘Maersk Connector’ in corporation with Maersk Supply Service. DeepOcean was joined by over 90 guests from the offshore renewable and power transmission industry to witness godmother Haydee Noemi Castillo Diaz de Boyde, the wife of DeepOcean’s Commercial Director Mr Pierre Boyde, successfully naming the vessel and wishing her and her crew a safe and prosperous onward journey. - See more at: http://www.maritimejournal.com/xporttoprint/news/maersk-connector-naming#sthash.gbeDFNuR.dpuf