BIBBY WAVEMASTER 1

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Bibby WaveMaster 1 officially named in Rotterdam

On the 6th of September, at 1300 hrs local time, the naming ceremony of the Bibby WaveMaster 1 took place at the cruise terminal in the Port of Rotterdam in front of more than 125 guests from the UK-based Bibby Group, Damen and a range of industry partners. More than ten members of the Bibby family attended while the Damen family was represented by Chief Commercial Officer Arnout Damen. The naming, by Lady Sponsor Mrs Jacky Blaikie, is the culmination of a programme that began nearly four years ago to develop a vessel that could meet the needs of the offshore wind industry in an efficient, economic and environmentally-responsible way. The Bibby WaveMaster 1 is the first of Damen’s new class of purpose-built Service Operations Vessels (SOV) with Walk-to-Work (W2W) capability. The Damen Group identified the need for such a vessel back in 2013 following consultations within the offshore renewables industry and launched a research programme that set out to develop an entirely new concept from the ground up in cooperation with a number of key suppliers. The design that came out of this process combined DP-2 and a new motion-compensated gangway with an innovative hull design, a revolutionary internal layout, and a comprehensive range of additional innovations designed to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. Source: Damen