ANOTHER OF OUR CO-OPERATIVE VESSELS NOW CERTIFIED TO WORK IN GERMAN WATERS

We have just been informed that another of our vessels has been issued with the prestigious Gleichwertigkeitsbescheinigung - Certificate of Equivalence to permit foreign, commercial vessels to work in German Waters.

It is no mean feat to achieve this as, not only does the vessel owner have to obtain various additional certificates, but the vessel itself and all paperwork has to pass the very strict scrutiny of the German Authorities, who have been known, in the past, with other vessels to insist on many other changes - including, we heard, changing all of the vessels windows!  So, it is a heartfelt "Well Done" to Andy and John in achieving this.

This vessel has been beautifully refurbished and is ideal for guard duties and survey.

LOA 23.99m, cruise speed 9 kts

Accommodation for 20 POB (12 pax) for duration of up to 21 days at sea

Built in 2000, fully refurbished in 2012

 Total refurbishment in excess of £500k

We now have four vessels with the Gleichwertigkeitsbescheinigung:

19m CTV, which has just successfully completed a 4 month contract in Germany

15m monohull CTV, which has just successfully completed a 2 month contract in Germany

25.5m monohull CTV, proven on many wind farms

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE, AND ANY OF OUR OTHER VESSELS, CONTACT

ANDY - 07590 688046 - ANDY_BCK@YAHOO.CO.UK

ELLEN - 07970 187812 - ELLEN.SPURGE@MAIL.COM

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL CHARTER COMPLETED

Late one Friday afternoon, back in June, we received a request for a vessel required urgently in German waters.  The requirement was from middle of June to end of July, around six weeks.

In our usual style, any plans we had for the rest of the afternoon and evening were put on hold as both phones and both laptops became red hot whilst we did our utmost to find a suitable vessel.  We had several vessels that were perfectly capable of undertaking the task required and that were available but unfortunately not one that already carried the required Gleichwertigkeitsbescheinigung which is the German Certificate of Equivalence to permit vessels to work in German waters.

It is not in our nature to give up, so our next step was to put out a general request on LinkedIn.  On Sunday afternoon we received a telephone call from Seawave Offshore in Denmark.  They had a mono-hull available but we were not certain whether our client would accept a mono-hull or if the vessel had the full Certificate of Equivalence.  Several conversations later and it seemed that we were on to a winner.  The team at Seawave pulled out every stop to fully obtain the Gleichwertigkeitsbescheinigung in record time and soon Captain Jonas was taking the vessel from Denmark to Germany where she was viewed by the client.  Initial feedback on the vessel was very positive.

After a couple of days "trial runs" with some local crew, off she went on full contract.

She has certainly performed well beyond any expectation and the feedback from our customer

has been excellent.  Proof of this in itself is that the contract was extended until the end of August.

Comments from Jette at Seawave have been that it has been "a pleasure to work with OMS and their customer" and we would say exactly the same in return.  This charter has indeed been a pleasure and we would gladly work with Jette, Captain Jonas and the team at every opportunity.

The vessel is now available for charter again and, having proven herself, on Riffgat wind farm, makes her very marketable.

FOR MORE DETAILS ON THIS VESSEL 

CONTACT

ANDY - 07590 688046 - ANDY_BCK@YAHOO.CO.UK

ELLEN - 07970 187812 - ELLEN.SPURGE@MAIL.COM

MABEL ALICE COMPLETES FIRST SURVEY OF NEW CONTRACT

Another busy couple of weeks for OMS as Mabel Alice has her annual lift out, anti-foul, inspection and a few other minor jobs in readiness for the start of her new contract.  As always, she passed her inspection with flying colours and we were really chuffed when the inspector commented that it was so nice to inspect a boat that had been so well looked after.

After a few days of waiting for the weather to settle back down, Mabel Alice set off from Yarmouth, on the Isle of Wight, early this morning in near perfect conditions and has successfully completed her first survey on the St Catherine's tidal project.

Initial feedback from the surveyors was that they had had a fantastic day, had been well looked after and Mabel Alice had performed brilliantly.  You can't ask for much better!

Alongside of this, the Co-Operative continues to be busy, with two of the vessels working in Germany both having their contracts extended yet again and we have again managed to find not one but two suitable vessels for a potential contract at short notice.

FOR MORE DETAILS CONTACT

ANDY - 07590 688046 - ANDY_BCK@YAHOO.CO.UK

ELLEN - 07970 187812 - ELLEN.SPURGE@MAIL.COM

ANOTHER BUSY WEEK FOR OFFSHORE MARINE SUPPORT LTD

We are delighted to announce that we have secured a 12 month contract for our flagship “Mabel Alice” conducting surveys in support of the £1.6m contract that was approved on 25 July to Royal Haskoning DHV.

The contract was issued for the preparatory works to develop tidal energy testing facilities on the seabed off of St Catherine’s Point on the Isle of Wight which forms part of the Solent Ocean Energy Centre (SOEC) Project.

Mabel Alice is currently in transit from Norfolk back to the Island to undertake the first survey within the next week or two.  

This is a major coup for us, especially as we had been personally recommended by two or three different people for this work which goes to show that our hard work, commitment to customer service and sheer determination has, yet again, paid off.  We are delighted to be a part of this project for yet another new customer.

Alongside of this, the Vessel Co-Operative continues to grow with several vessels having successfully completed contracts in the last few months and two vessels currently on contract extensions for two different contracts in Germany.

We are also pleased to announce that the owners of two more substantial vessels have approached us, again from recommendations from third parties, and asked to join our Co-Operative – 

a converted 75ft Dutch Steel Beam Trawler – ideal for guard duties and marine mammal observation work – 

and a converted 26m Steel Beam Trawler – ideal for guard duties and proven for benthic survey work.  

This brings the total amount of vessels that we have within the Co-Operative to 45.

For those of you who don't know this is how we work - once a vessel is deemed suitable, and this may be from a desktop review or physical audit, we include her details in our E-Book which is on our website (http://www.offshoremarinesupport.com/663-2/) and is promoted via blog, LinkedIn, Twitter and is also sent to our contacts who we feel may be interested.  There is no fee for this, all we charge is a simple 2.5% of any charter that we introduce.  How this works is we gross up any rate that the vessel owner requires by this 2.5% (rounded to nearest £50) and by any further commission, should the initial enquiry come via another broker.  At the point that a vessel and rates are accepted we make the direct introduction between the vessel owner and the customer and step out of the final details or else it can get far too complicated with too many people involved!  The vessel owner invoices for the charter directly and we then invoice the vessel owner for our commission.which keeps things totally transparent.  Any other party to whom commission is due, would also invoice the vessel owner directly.  Should the vessel owner introduce any charter to us, we would offer to pay them 2.5% commission on that charter.  We find that this works very well as everything is very clear and totally transparent to all parties leaving nothing hidden and, of course, the vessel owner is paid first, in line with their own terms which they have agreed with the customer, which, in our opinion, is as it should be.

Furthermore, we have found that both our vessel finding service and crew finding service is gaining interest and working very well.  

Recently we have placed 4 people into various positions as well as submitting details of several others to interested parties, and have sourced vessels for a number of requirements.  With regard to placing crew, we have had such an interest in this that we have, unfortunately, had to introduce a charge - basically this is based on the equivalent of two days remuneration.  Full Terms and Conditions for this service are available on request.

FOR MORE DETAILS OF VESSELS OR CREW CONTACT ANDY - 07590 688046 - ANDY_BCK@YAHOO.CO.UK OR ELLEN - 07970 187812 - ELLEN.SPURGE@MAIL.COM

THE LATEST SPECIAL OFFER FROM OFFSHORE MARINE SUPPORT LTD

We are very pleased to be able to offer a brand new 14m Powerglide at very competitive daily rates

Length OA - 14.00m

Beam - 5.20m

Draft - 1.0m

Hull Material - GRP

Fitted with a transfer bow section

Olex 3D Seabed Mapping System

Hondex dual frequency Echosounder

Multi Function GPS

chartplotter/echosounder/radar

(NSO integrated navigation system

with 4G radar)

Back-up stand alone radar (Koden

colour LCD radar)

Simrad Structure Scan Module

Simrad Broadband Sounder Module

Simrad AP35 Autopilot System incl

reversible pump

Simrad HS70 GPS Heading Sensor

AIS (Comar KAT-100 Class A

Transponder)

CCTV System

IS20 Wind System package

Icom IC-M411 VHF

Icom IC-M423 VHF

Furuno Navtex Receiver

SafeSea E100 EPRIB

SafeSea S100 SART

 MCA CAT 2

Max Speed 30 knots

Cruise Speed 24 knots

Fuel Capacity 2,000 litres

14 Sprung Seats

Fwd Cabine with 1 Double Berth

Main Engines – Iveco Nef 67 450

Hp commercial each. Rated at 370

Hp for continuous use

Bow Thruster

4 kVa Generator

Inverter / Battery Charger to give

additional 3.5 kw power to main

saloon

FOR MORE DETAILS, RATES AND AVAILABILITY PLEASE CONTACT US 

ANDY - 07590 688046 - ANDY_BCK@YAHOO.CO.UK

ELLEN - 07970 187812 - ELLEN.SPURGE@MAIL.COM

OFFSHORE MARINE SUPPORT LTD FORMS COLLABORATION WITH HERBOSCH-KIERE MARINE CONTRACTORS LTD

As a result of Guy Brown, the Managing Director, of Herbosch-Kiere Marine Contractors Ltd, attending our own conference back in February, and a further meeting at All Energy in Aberdeen last week, Offshore Marine Support Ltd is pleased to announce that Herbosch-Kiere Marine Contractors Ltd  have chosen to use our co-operative platform for the non exclusive promotion of their extensive marine plant.

Herbosch-Kiere Marine Contractors Ltd is theUK subsidiary of Herbosch-Kiere, a leading European maritime contractor.  Core activities include maritime construction, marine renewable energy, demolition and heavy lifting.  Clients range from local authorities, port and harbour operators to offshore and renewable companies.

Herbosch-Kiere Marine Contractors Ltd is developing an increasingly strong presence in theUKfrom its enviable pedigree and reputation of its parent company, based in Belgium, spanning back over 100 years. Herbosch-Kiere NV is a member of the Eiffage Benelux Group, which in turn is part of Eiffage France – one of the largest civil building and facilities management contractors in Europe, employing some 70,000 people, an annual turnover in excess of 14 billion, with an international network of 500 subsidiaries.

From the UK office, the focus is on projects which have a high degree of technical difficulty or logistical problems and the core marine business includes piling, rock placing, demolition, salvage, heavy lifting and renewable energy installations.  With a continued investment in marine plant the fleet is substantial and Andy Iannetta, Managing Director of Offshore Marine Support Ltd says “we are delighted to be working alongside Guy and the team at Herbosch-Kiere as the opportunities are endless and this will ensure that the Co-Operative continues to grow and meet the challenging demands of the industry”

We shall be promoting all of Herbosch-Kiere equipment over the coming weeks and are more than happy to discuss any requirements.  Guy Brown, Managing Director of Herbosch-Kiere Marine Contractors Ltd says “The Marine Renewables Industry in particular has grown rapidly over the past few years. By bringing owners, energy companies and organisations together the co-operative provides a great opportunity for vessel procurement, so we were delighted when Andy approached us with the idea of utilising the co-operative formed by Offshore Marine Support Ltd."

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OMS SECURES CHARTER

We are very pleased to announce that we have just secured a major charter, at very short notice, using our Vessel Finding Service.

This is the timeline of events!

MONDAY 22 APRIL 2013 2044 HOURS

Received email request "not sure if you can help us at short notice, but we need a vessel to support a survey on the East Coast, commencing this Thursday"  All we were told in addition to this was that it required accommodation for 10 and it was for 24 hour operations.  Also, the request was from a totally new customer that we had not previously worked with.

.............Quick Brainstorm and Consideration of Current Range of Vessels...............................

MONDAY 22 APRIL 2013 2055 HOURS

Email sent to owner who may have suitable vessel, as even with the scant information we were given, we were not sure if any of our current vessels would be suitable

.................and in the meantime.....................................................

we sent an immediate response to the enquirer - "yes, we will do our best to help you - we are in the process of locating a suitable vessel for you and will revert soonest"

MONDAY 22 APRIL 2013 2100 HOURS

We have located what is potentially a suitable vessel and are awaiting details.  

Keeping both the owner and the enquirer informed at all stages.  We then asked the enquirer if they were able to give us any more details whilst compiling the vessel specification in our format.  The email that came in was unbelievable - certain specific requirements were mentioned and the vessel we had located had all of them!

MONDAY 22 APRIL 2013 2137 HOURS

Detailed specification of the located vessel submitted.  A 60m vessel, more than capable of fulfilling the requirements that is located in the vicinity that the customer requires.

MONDAY 22 APRIL 2139 HOURS

Confirmation that the vessel submitted would indeed fit the bill and a request for the rates

MONDAY 22 APRIL 2146 HOURS

Owner asked to provide rates and full details of his requirements for the proposed charter.  Response by return that this information would be with us early Tuesday morning as the owner was about to leave for a flight so he would work on this during flight and send as soon as he landed.

Customer informed of this and is happy to wait until first thing Tuesday morning

TUESDAY 23 APRIL 0536 HOURS

Rates and full details of requirement received from vessel owner.

TUESDAY 23 APRIL 0832 HOURS

Full, formal tender submitted to customer

TUESDAY 23 APRIL 0846 HOURS

Full details and rates sent by our customer to their customer for consideration.  Then by return email, a question on fuel capacity and cost which was answered immediately

TUESDAY 23 APRIL 1241 HOURS

Phone call from customer to say that our tender had been accepted.  

Vessel owner informed immediately and introductory email sent to both our customer and the vessel owner to make the introduction to each other so that they can finalise the details and arrange the BIMCO

At this point, on the verbal go-ahead, the vessel owner also commenced the mobilisation of his vessel as a vessel of this size requires 48 hours to mobilise.

During the rest of the day and into this morning, the Commercial Departments at both the customer and the vessel owner worked to get the BIMCO agreed whilst the Master carried on with the vessel mobilisation.

WEDNESDAY 24 APRIL 1708 HOURS

The 3 words we had been eagerly awaiting "DONE AND SIGNED"

We think it is fair to say that we now have both a happy customer and a happy vessel owner, not to mention a slight bit of kudos for us in proving that we do indeed do what we say we are going to do, when we are going to.

Many thanks to all concerned.

IF YOU WISH TO TRY OUR VESSEL FINDING SERVICE  

PLEASE CONTACT 

ANDY ON 07590 688046 - ANDY_BCK@YAHOO.CO.UK 

OR 

ELLEN ON 07970 187812 - ELLEN.SPURGE@MAIL.COM

POST CONFERENCE REVIEW - FEEDBACK

THE FEEDBACK THAT WE HAVE HAD FOLLOWING THE UK AND IRELAND VESSEL CO-OPERATIVE CONFERENCE

SOME OF THE COMMENTS WE HAVE RECEIVED

"Excellent - well done all concerned!!"      

                                                      "Good first conference, excellent venue"

"Very informative, good dialogue, constructive debate and networking" 

                                            "Very clear and informative, clear and good dialogue, constructive
                                                      debate and good and clear networking"

     "Excellent 1st conference with good attendance and speakers"           "Well Done!!"

"Useful initiative to address the requirements of the industry"

"Good to have an event on the East Coast"

"Most presentations nice and concise"

"I'd like to express my thanks to you for hosting a good first event; it is not easy to get the speakers, presentations, attendees together and to deliver a full day conference - congratulations" 

"Thank you for your invite to the conference, it was very impressive"

"Unfortunately I had to leave shortly after lunch but I found the morning session very interesting, especially Jules's presentation on seating and the management of whole body vibration"

"Thank you for a very productive conference in Great Yarmouth.  Although I was unable to remain for the entire day, I found it very well focussed and a fantastic structure to bring together the maritime network within the UK"

MANY THANKS TO ALL OF THOSE WHO ATTENDED

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THE UK AND IRELAND VESSEL CO-OPERATIVE HIT THE HEADLINES

Since the idea of the Co-Operative was born, back in September last year, we are extremely grateful and actually quite humbled at the response we have had in support of our idea.

We have also had exposure in several publications, for which we are most thankful to the editors who have helped make this happen.

To date we have appeared in the following:

offshore WIND.biz

http://www.offshorewind.biz/2012/10/17/uk-oms-energy-marine-services-form-joint-venture-to-market-various-vessels/

http://www.offshorewind.biz/2013/02/01/vessel-co-operative-grows-uk-ireland-conference-on-its-way/?

Thanks to Dick Hill and Team

4C Offshore

http://www.4coffshore.com/windfarms/the-uk-and-ireland-vessel-co-operative-nid206.html

Thanks to Chris Anderson, Sue Crothers and Team

Renewable Focus

http://e-ditionsbyfry.com/Olive/ODE/RRF/Default.aspx?href=RRF/2013/01/01

Thanks to Gail Rajgor and Team

Wind Energy Network

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A21uqy/WENIssue15/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=

Thanks to Duncan McGilvray and Team

AVAILABLE FOR CHARTER

IDEAL FOR ROUND 3 AND MET-MAST MAINTENANCE / SURVEY

MULTIPURPOSE WINDFARM SUPPORT / PASSENGER TRANSFER / ACCOMMODATION AND HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY VESSEL

General 

§  Length OA                 30.00m

§  Beam                         10.00m

§  Draft                              2.0m

§  GRT                                 311

§  NRT                                   91

§  Displacement – L/S      206.2t

§  Year of Build                  1985

§  Material                  Aluminium

§  Lying                    East Coast

§  Cruise Speed               12kts

§  Max Speed                  14kts

Technical Specifications

§  Main Engines – Scania DSI 14 - x 4

§  Auxiliary Engines – Scania – x 2

§  Bowthruster – Fore and Aft

§  Propellers – CPP – x 2

§  4 Point Mooring System with Bridge Control

§  Simplex DP with DGPS Survey Auto Track

§  Effer 14100 14 T Hydraulic crane - max 7000kg - 2050kg

§  Bunker Total – 20t

§  Accommodation for 16 persons including crew

Navigation and Communication Equipment

Furuno DSC FS-1562, Furuno DGPS GP-36, 2 x VHF-DSC Thrane&Thrane Sailor RT5022,

Furuno Remote station RB-700, Furuno MF DSC-6A with RX, JRC Navtex NCR-333, SAAB Transponder

AIS R4 navsystem, VHF SRA ME-61, DECCA Bridgemaster Type no. 65821-k, RACAL-DECCA Bright Track,

EMRI Autopilot SEM200, Meridian Gyrocompass SG Brown, Lehnkuhl gyrorepeater, Consilium Marine SAL

SD1 log, FUSO-403 Boatnav sonar, Stork Kwant engine order telegraph, Kockumation TI-50 typhon, 2 x

Viewsonic screens VP201b/VP2030b, Ericsson inter radio, 2 x 150mm NOR T17 magnetic compass

FOR MORE DETAILS OF THIS AND OUR OTHER VESSELS, PLEASE CONTACT ANDY - 07590 688046