On 9th May, a new Multi-Purpose Support Vessel, aptly named Solution, will be christened at Urk, The Netherlands by its owner DUC Marine Group.
The new vessel has been purpose built for DUC Marine Group, who have been active in diving, construction and maintenance services for offshore and inshore industries for 30 years. The new vessel aims to fill a gap in the Offshore Renewables and Oil and Gas Construction and Maintenance industry.
“The vessels in our fleet are employed year-round, so we have had to charter additional vessels for our projects”, a DUC spokesperson explains. “We found that current vessels are either too small with insufficient capacity and possibilities, or too big and therefore not cost-effective. So we decided to design a ship with exactly the right size, capacity, versatility and cost efficiency.
Suitability for Offshore wind, construction and maintenance
Solution is perfectly suited for operations such as, amongst others, Buoy Installations, SPM Maintenance, Bathymetric Survey, Soil Investigations, UXO Survey and Clearance, Cable Removal, Debris Removal, Grouting Works and Bubble Curtain Deployment.
