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| More vessels for Turbine Transfers | Turbine Transfers Ltd will increase its fleet to 20 vessels by the end of 2011. With the fast growing development of major offshore wind farms in Britain, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark, Captain Mark Meade of Anglesey UK-based Holyhead Towing, has seen the potential for larger fleets of crew transfer vessels dedicated to the offshore wind farm industry. Often customers now require four or five boats at the larger and further offshore sites, and that demand cannot easily be supplied by the smaller companies in the field. Mark Meade established Turbine Transfers Ltd in 2008 as the Marine Renewables division of the Holyhead Group. Since then Turbine Transfers has grown quickly to employ 30 people and operates an expanding fleet of purpose built wind farm support catamarans. The catamarans are built by South Boats Special Projects division, based on the Isle of Wight. Eight vessels in the range 39.3 ft to 65.6 ft are already in operation. Colwyn Bay, the ninth boat, a 59 ft aluminum WFSV has just been delivered, and due in June is a second 65.6 ft craft, another 59 ft in July and two more boats in December, giving Turbine Transfers a fleet of 13 vessels by the end of 2010. More boats are under order which will bring the total to 20 vessels by the end of 2011. | |
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