With Caspian Offshore Construction being a new customer to STX Europe, these contracts are of strategic importance to us. The Caspian Sea is of great interest to STX Europe, especially the Northern part where our ice breaking expertise is required says Roy Reite, president for STX Europe’s business area Offshore & Specialized Vessels.
The vessels are designed by the STX Europe subsidiary Aker Arctic, and have a length of 65 meters and a beam of 16.4 meters. The vessels will have the Ice class notification 1A Super, according to the Finnish-Swedish Ice classification rules. Further, the vessels will be equipped and designed for other operations like fire fighting, rescue operation and towing in shallow waters.
The Caspian icebreaker tugs are based on the first Aker Arctic DAS (TM) icebreakers, having operated for more than 10 years in the Kashagan oil development. They are also showing the good synergies between Aker Arctic and STX Europe, says Mikko Niini, president of Aker Arctic Technology Inc.
