Norwegian outfit Uptime International is to deliver a motion compensated gangway for a new Bernhard Schulte service operation vessel that will support maintenance work for GE at the 396MW Merkur offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
Uptime have been contracted by Ulstein Verft to supply the 30-metre gangway and an adjustable pedestal mounted close to the elevator tower of the SOV.
Uptime International sales and marketing manager Svein Ove Haugen said: “We are proud, honoured and humble to be chosen again as the preferred access system provider.
“Our Uptime 23.4-metre have been the benchmark gangway in the wind industry for years and together with our new autonomous 30-metre gangway should the Uptime gangway family be ready for and cover whatever project that comes up in the wind industry.”
Image: impression of new vessel (Ulstein Verft)
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