ELA Container celebrates first year

The company, a subsidiary of ELA Container GmbH, was set up in 2014 to take advantage of the growing number of energy companies heading out to the open sea. Far away from the coast, usually over a period of several years, engineers and professional forces work together on the construction, commissioning and maintenance of wind turbine power plants, drilling rigs or parts of the infrastructure.

ELA Offshore now provides accommodation, lounges and work spaces at sea and has already rented out 370 offshore units for the offshore wind and offshore oil and gas industries and equipment for supply ships and dredging.

“ELA Container Offshore GmbH is active in a highly specialised market that places special demands on our products, assembly and logistics”, said Hans Gatzemeier, managing director of ELA Container Offshore GmbH.

“The upcoming months will be very exciting because we will be exhibiting our offshore accommodation containers at global exhibitions such as the SPE Offshore Europe in Aberdeen, HusumWind in Husum, the Offshore Energy in Amsterdam, the ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi and the OTC in Houston. Hence, we are increasing our visibility and name recognition beyond national borders as well as intensifying our international customer loyalty,” added Katharina Pleus, marketing manager.

In addition to Germany, ELA Offshore Containers were delivered to Africa, Kazakhstan, Norway, Denmark, Mexico and the Netherlands.

All ELA offshore units are made in Germany according to German quality standards and have the DNV 2.7-1/EN 12079 and CSC certificates. Depending on customer requirements, ELA Offshore Containers are individually adaptable and immediately operational.

By Rachael Doyle