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
