Candies vessel is the stage for Ampelmann’s 10 millionth personnel switch

Offshore walk-to-work (W2W) entry supplier Ampelmann has reached the milestone of 10 million personnel transfers throughout its worldwide operations. The ten millionth switch happened on an E1000 gangway working on the Cade Candies, an offshore vessel owned by Des Allemands, La., primarily based Otto Candies that’s facilitating the development and commissioning of generators on the Winery Wind offshore wind farm. Underscoring the adaptability of current Jones Act offshore assist vessels for offshore wind farm work, the Cade Candies is certainly one of two Otto Candies vessels working as an SOV on U.S. offshore wind initiatives, the opposite being the Paul Candies (see earlier story). Each are fitted with Ampelmann entry techniques.

Ampelmann’s gangways can compensate for motions in six levels of freedom, enabling secure and environment friendly offshore entry for folks and cargo. Since its beginnings 15 years in the past, the Delft, Netherlands, headquartered firm has change into a key participant within the offshore entry trade worldwide.

“This accomplishment is a testomony to the security and effectivity of Stroll to Work (W2W) and the fleet that we’ve developed over time,” says Jan van der Tempel, Ampelmann’s founder and CEO. “We wish to thank Otto Candies for contributing to this achievement, in addition to specific our gratitude to our purchasers, suppliers and everybody else concerned within the Ampelmann journey thus far.”

With almost 750,000 profitable landings made throughout 650 particular person initiatives for purchasers in Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, the Center East and the Americas, Ampelmann’s fleet of 70 techniques has firmly established W2W as a secure, dependable and environment friendly technique of offshore entry. The corporate seems to be ahead to a 12 months of continued progress and can shortly introduce with its newly developed W-type, a completely built-in modular and electrical tower system.

The milestone switch from the Otto Candies vessel comes on the again of a number of latest successes and upcoming technical breakthroughs. Not too way back, Ampelmann reached the benchmark of 30 million kilograms of cargo transferred globally. Marking a tripling of cargo transfers in simply 4 years, this highlights the rising significance of the corporate’s cargo hoisting techniques, such because the A300 and the E1000, notably within the offshore wind sector. Ampelmann has additionally made its entry into the floating wind market, as two of its E1000 techniques have been efficiently working on Norway’s Hywind Tampen, the biggest business floating wind farm on the earth.

“Fifteen years in the past, we have been a small spin-off of the Technical College in Delft,” says Van der Tempel. “We began with just one gangway, however our fleet shortly grew and diversified to accommodate an rising variety of work scopes within the offshore power sector. Our modern spirit, along with our dedication to enhance the security of offshore operations, have made it potential to sail far past the North Sea horizon. As we glance to the long run, we proceed to innovate by designing energy-efficient and modular techniques and to work in direction of our imaginative and prescient of creating offshore entry as straightforward as crossing the road.”