Deck safety orders total £50 million
01 May, 2008
Rolls-Royce has signed contracts covering delivery of safer deck operations equipment for four anchor handling vessels. The value of the contracts is about £50m (NOK 500m). Two of the contracts are with Karmsund for Ezra, Singapore, and two with Aker Yards for K-Line Japan.
Ottar Antonsen, General Manager Sales, Rolls-Royce Deck Machinery Brattvaag, said: “Rolls-Royce has considered steering all operations on deck by remote control and removing the crew completely, but we decided that the human being is the greatest asset we have on deck. Our focus is to get the crew into a safe zone and ease the physical and heavy work.
“These contracts clearly show our position in the market as the dominant player in anchor handling solutions and safer deck operations. So far we have delivered over 50 Safer Deck Operations equipment packages to anchor handling vessels all over the world. Currently we have equipment in operation in the North Sea, the Mediterranean and offshore Brazil.”
To assist deck work, which is often carried out in harsh weather, Rolls-Royce has developed a remote control system for ropes, wires, chains and shackles. A new and important contribution to safer operations is the ability to read the tension in the line when the chain or wire is locked in the shark jaw. Previously this could only be measured at the winch.
The delivery consists of winches, stern roller, shark jaw, towing pins,
centring systems, anchor handling cranes, pennant coiler and spooling
sheave.
Notes to editors
- Rolls-Royce, a world-leading provider of power systems and services
for use on land, at sea and in the air, has established a strong position
in global markets - civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy.
- The Marine business employs 7,400 people in 34 countries with the
main manufacturing centres being in the UK, the Nordic countries, the
United States and increasingly Asia.
- The Group has a broad customer base comprising more than 600 airlines, 4,000 corporate and utility aircraft and helicopter operators, 160 armed forces, more than 2,000 marine customers, including 70 navies, and energy customers in nearly 120 countries. It employs around 38,800 people worldwide people in offices, manufacturing and service facilities in 50 countries and has businesses headquartered in the UK, US, Canada, Germany, Scandinavia and China. This global presence allows the Group to access long-term international growth opportunities with its technology, presence, partnerships and people.
For further information please contact
Ellen Kvalsund, Communications Manager - Marine
Rolls-Royce plc
E-mail: ellen.kvalsund@rolls-royce.com
Phone: +47 41 57 44 63
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