New marine equipment and lifting services
Fendercare Marine has launched a new division, Fendercare Marine Equipment and Lifting Services, located at its Great Yarmouth UK base.
The marine products and services provider opened its energy support base in Great Yarmouth in July 2012, initially providing support to offshore wind turbine support craft. As well as existing shoreside support, Fendercare Marine Equipment and Lifting Services will also be offering mechanical, electrical, lifting equipment, hydraulic equipment and winches, lifting slings and load/stress monitoring equipment. The new services are available not only to the renewable industry but to the oil and gas offshore sector and onshore industrial sectors.
The Great Yarmouth base provides mobilisation and demobilisation facilities, maintenance and repair facilities with land storage, fully equipped project management offices and bunkering services and is already an established hub for all types of offshore activity in the Southern North Sea. It incorporates more than 6,000 square feet of workshop together with over 10,000 square feet of yard and storage space, all in a dock side location with a 250 tonne crawler crane.
With the launch of Fendercare Marine Equipment and Lifting Services, the base is expanding to accommodate an additional workshop space of 4,800 square feet, housing a wide variety of lifting equipment, including a new 2,000 tonne lifting press.
The new division brings together several of Fendercare Marine’s UK based hardware sales and services divisions, adding new products and services. This includes surface preparation through Blastgreen and load and stress monitoring services provided through Strainstall Marine, both Fendercare Marine companies.
Eric Plane, Fendercare Marine managing director said, “The launch of Fendercare Marine Equipment and Lifting Services is a very exciting development for us. We viewed this as an opportunity to bring together our Marine Equipment and Lifting divisions to provide an even more responsive service to our customers. It also demonstrates our long term commitment to East Anglia, generating additional employment and revenue to the Great Yarmouth economy.”
