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Damen to Build New Light Tender for MENAS
01 Sep 2002
The Middle East Navigation Aids Service (MENAS), responsible for aids to navigation in the Arabian Gulf, have placed a ?29m order with Dutch shipyard Damen to build and equip a technologically advanced Light Tender which will install and service navaids from its base in Bahrain.
Shipping in the Gulf relies on aids to navigation provided and maintained by MENAS from the coast of Oman to the northern end of the Gulf. These comprise more than 500 conventional aids, including buoys and lighthouses, as well as a DGPS from four land based radio transmitters.
The new Light Tender, set to replace the existing vessel Relume upon completion in May 2004, will be 82m long and feature a diesel electric propulsion system. It will be equipped with a dynamic positioning system to enable safe buoy handling and will also be capable of oil spill recovery and dispersal to aid environmental protection of the region. The vessel bears a resemblance in concept to the Aids to Navigation Service Vessel Granuaile, which was built by Damen for the Commissioners of Irish Lights in 1998.
The vessel will be built at Damen's Galatz yard in Rumania and finished at Vlissingen in the Netherlands.
MJ Information No: 17434
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