ship conversion

Canada exercises remaining CSS Asterix option years

CSS Asterix, a combat support ship created by converting and transforming a containership, is to continue to support the Royal Canadian Navy for some years yet. Ottawa-headquartered Inocea Group member Federal Fleet Services (FSS) reports that the Government of Canada has exercised the remaining three option years under its provision of services agreement (PSA) with the company.

In addition to providing the Asterix, FFS provides personnel to operate and maintain the vessel, while the Royal...

https://www.marinelog.com/news/canada-exercises-remaining-css-asterix-option-years/

Stena Line boosts the capacity of two RO/RO freight ferries

Two RO/RO freight ferries operated by Sweden’s Stena Line are each to undergo conversions that will increase their capacities by 30%, not through a midbody insertion stretch, but through the addition of an additional cargo deck,

The vessels are the 196 meter long, 2001-built Stena Foreteller, which currently operates on the Belfast-Liverpool route, and the 195.3 meter long 2003-built Stena Forerunner, which currently operates on the Rotterdam=Harwich route.

The conversions will be carried out in...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/shipping/stena-line-boosts-the-capacity-of-two-ro-ro-freight-ferries/

DeepOcean has big plans for Island Offshore vessel after major conversion

DeepOcean

Mystery solved. Oslo-headquartered subsea specialist DeepOcean is the company taking Island Offshore’s Island Condor on a long-term charter that will commence in the third quarter this year after the vessel emerges from an extensive conversion (see earlier story).

DeepOcean has big plans for the vessel, which will be renamed Island Ocean after its upgrade to a multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV).

The 2014-built vessel, which will be equipped with a 150-tonne crane, will provide subsea inspection,...

https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/deepocean-has-big-plans-for-island-offshore-vessel-after-major-conversion/

Canada extends contract for support ship converted from containership

Ottawa-headquartered Federal Fleet Services (FFS) reports that the Government of Canada has confirmed a two-year extension to its at-sea support services contract for the combat support ship, M/V Asterix. Converted from a containership by FFS sister company Davie Shipbuilding, the ship has been providing worldwide service to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) since her deployment in 2018.

Over the past five years, says Federal Fleet Services, Asterix has performed flawlessly in NATO and allied...

https://www.marinelog.com/shipbuilding/shipyards/canada-extends-contract-for-support-ship-converted-from-containership/