After a serious conversion, Dutch marine companies agency Boskalis has commissioned the BOKA Ocean vessel.
The vessel was acquired in 2023 as a pipe-laying vessel and was subsequently transformed right into a broadly deployable cable-laying vessel.
After BOKA Ocean accomplished its sea trials within the North Sea, the vessel is ‘greater than prepared’ to begin on her maiden mission within the German a part of the North Sea, Boskalis mentioned.
The BOKA Ocean has been reunited within the Boskalis fleet together with her two sister vessels.
The truth is, these have been acquired by Boskalis prior to now two and a half years and at the moment are working underneath the names BOKA Northern Ocean and BOKA Southern Ocean.
Though they’re nonetheless comparable in look, every vessel has now its personal specialty. The BOKA Southern Ocean and BOKA Northern Ocean are high-end development help vessels, busy with IRM and decommissioning work within the North Sea and varied offshore wind farm development actions in Southeast Asia.
In response to Boskalis, the BOKA Ocean vessel will quickly set up her first subsea cable for an offshore wind farm in Europe.
“We thank our Boskalis Central Fleet Help division, Fleet Administration division and the Subsea Cables enterprise unit which have collaborated intensively over the previous interval to finish the advanced conversion on time,” Boskalis mentioned.
