MPI WORKBOATS ORDER TWO NEW VESSELS


Thursday, 9 June 2011



MPI WORKBOATS ORDER TWO NEW VESSELS

MPI Workboats are pleased to announce that an order has been placed for two additional wind farm service vessels. The two vessels will be built at the South Boats Medina Shipyard on the Isle of Wight, UK and, when delivered next year, will bring the total number of vessels in the MPI Workboat Fleet to eight. At present, five vessels are in service and a sixth (MPI Dulcinea) is scheduled for delivery later this month.

Designed specifically for MPI Workboats, the South Catamaran 17m LS can fulfill a multiplicity of roles demanded by wind farm site owners and operators. The vessel has an overall length of 17.5 metres, 6.4 metre beam and draft of 1 metre and offers an ideal solution for the wind farm support sector.

VESSEL PARTICULARS

Length o.a. 17.5 m
Length hull17.00 m
Beam overall6.40
Lightship draft1.00 m
Lightship displacement45 tonnes
Total fuel capacity4,600 ltr
Range350 nm (16 hrs @ 22 knots)
Water capacity400 ltr
Complement (total)12 passengers + 3 crew



Sister vessel, MPI Dorothea

Notes to editors:

MPI Offshore, based in Stokesley, UK, has been pioneering the offshore wind turbine installation business since 2003, when the first dedicated wind turbine installation vessel was delivered: MPI Resolution. Over the past seven years MPI has been involved in numerous wind farm construction projects, including those on Barrow and Robin Rigg. During 2008, the company decided to invest USD 550 million in two state-of-the-art wind turbine installation vessels, MPI Adventure and MPI Discovery. The second of these vessels, MPI Discovery, is currently under construction at the Cosco Qidong Shipyard in China. For more information on MPI and its wide-ranging capabilities, please visit: www.mpi-offshore.com. MPI is a subsidiary of the Vroon Group, a Dutch-based, diversified ship-owning group with an extensive North Sea offshore fleet. For more information, please visit: www.vroon.nl.

For additional information on this press release, please contact:
Name: Maxine Farnworth
Title:PR Consultant
Phone No:+44 (0)1642 742 200
Fax:+44 (0)1642 714 921
E-Mail:Maxine.Farnworth@mpi-offshore.com
Website:www.mpi-offshore.com