Fugro will acquire two platform supply vessels, Sea Goldcrest and Sea Gull for use as geotechnical assets.
The addition of these two recent ships (built in 2019 and 2020 respectively) to its owned fleet will further strengthen Fugro’s ability to address market demands and shortage in geotechnical capable boats.
With the purchase of these strategic assets Fugro will operate a balanced fleet of owned and chartered vessels, maintaining flexibility towards the future.
Upon delivery of Sea Goldcrest in the course of 2024, Fugro will start the conversion to a geotechnical vessel, which is expected to be operational early 2025.
Sea Gull, which is already under charter with Fugro and fully operational, will be delivered late 2024 or early 2025.
Part of Fugro’s strategy for the coming four years is to secure long term vessel capacity, especially for the global offshore wind market, which has a particularly large need for mapping of soil composition and its associated properties via the extraction and testing of soil samples.
For the foreseeable future, these activities cannot be executed with smaller and/or uncrewed platforms.