Northern Offshore Services (NOS) and Japanese shipping outfit NYK have concluded a charter contract for a crew transfer vessel (CTV) to service offshore wind farms in European waters.
NYK-owned CTV, Energizer, will be chartered to NOS through a 10-year bareboat charter contract to transfer crews to offshore wind power stations, mainly in Europe, under the operation of NOS.
NYK has additionally agreed to dispatch its engineers to NOS to participate in operations and ship management in Europe in preparation for the development of the CTV business in Japan.
NOS and its parent Norwegian Offshore Group (NOG) operate over 60 CTVs in the offshore wind power market in Europe.
NYK and NOG signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in December 2019 to explore a CTV business related to offshore wind power generation. This bareboat charter contract is a partial development of that MoU and will be the first CTV owned by NYK, which will continue its efforts to contribute to the spread of offshore wind power generation through the CTV business in cooperation with NOG.
Energizer is a “state-of-the-art” CTV developed by NOS, equipped with a large-capacity battery that can be recharged from a power generation facility and can be switched to hybrid mode to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.