Marco Polo Marine’s has announced that its maiden commissioning service operations vessel (CSOV) is scheduled for delivery in September, and will be deployed in Taiwan for a Vestas project in early October 2024.
In September 2022, Marco Polo Marine unveiled plans to build, own and operate a CSOV to meet increasing demand for support vessels from the offshore wind farm industry in Asia.
The 83-metre long ship, currently under construction at Marco Polo Shipyard in Batam, Indonesia, can accommodate up to 110 persons, and will be the first CSOV to be designed in Asia, according to the shipbuilder.
It will be equipped with a walk-to-work gangway and a 3D motion-compensated crane. It will also feature hybrid-based energy storage systems that is expected to reduce carbon emissions by up to 20%.
PKR Offshore Co, the Group’s Taiwan-based subsidiary, had signed a Framework Agreement with Vestas Taiwan Co to deploy the CSOV across offshore wind farms in the Asia-Pacific region for three years.
PKR Offshore Co has recently secured a project finance loan from Bank SinoPac Taiwan on 15 April 2024 for the CSOV project.