{"id":773,"date":"2024-10-09T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimejournal.nfdtesting.uk\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2024\/10\/09\/viking-supply-ships-to-install-100t-cranes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:16:26","slug":"viking-supply-ships-to-install-100t-cranes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/2024\/10\/09\/viking-supply-ships-to-install-100t-cranes\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking Supply Ships to install 100t cranes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company, which also has an office in Norway, says the equipment will position the company to meet increasing demand within the subsea sector, with ice-class vessels very much in demand.<\/p>\n<p>The vessels will be used across the offshore sector, including offshore wind, oil and gas assignments.<\/p>\n<p>The addition to Viking\u2019s fleet will not come cheap: the company says it will spend $50 million (\u20ac45.6 million) on the upgrades, which it says will be financed with \u2018cash at hand and existing credit facility\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201dThe project includes some modifications on certain vessels, including building ROV-hangars and installation of launch and recovery systems for ROVs,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n<p>Viking Supply Ships provides offshore anchor-handling and ice-breaking services, for which there has been no&nbsp;lack of demand in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/industry-news\/worst-ice-conditions-for-years-trap-cargo-ships\/1489994.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last year, the Swedish Coastguard told&nbsp;<em>Maritime Journal<\/em> that ice had been much thicker than in recent years, with two freighters trapped in January<\/a> needing rescuing by a tug, which itself then became trapped.<\/p>\n<p>This year the Northern Sea Passage across the Arctic Ocean, both east and west, has iced over some three weeks earlier than usual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia\u2019s Northern Sea Route Administration announced that vessels with no ice class will have to vacate the waterway by October 15, around 2-3 weeks ahead of schedule,\u201d according to the news platform <em>gCaptain<\/em>. \u201cFor vessels with light and medium ice classifications the navigation season will end on October 20 and October 31 respectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Viking Supply Ships is expected to have the cranes in July 2026, for phasing in after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden-based Viking Supply Ships will install 100-ton heave compensated offshore cranes on its ice-class anchor-handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,36,35],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-anchor-handling-tug-supply-vessel","tag-ice-class","tag-viking-supply-ships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}