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Tidal Transit assesses fleet productivity

By: Tom Russell 03/10/2017 Tidal Transit

General Vessels

Tidal Transit (Colin Lowe) Tia Elizabeth, Kitty Petra and Eden Rose

Tidal Transit has entered into an agreement with marine fleet productivity specialists Marfle to enhance the analysis of its vessel operational costs and the key performance indicators associated with voyages made by its fleet of offshore wind farm crew transfer vessels.

Eden Rose and Tia Elizabeth are the first two vessels in the Tidal Transit fleet to be fitted with the Marfle data collectors; these will gather information relating to a range of criteria including fuel consumption, speed, and engine temperatures and pressures.

The Marfle system will also provide alerts about a wide range of malfunctions or operating parameters which have exceeded their normal limits.

"I am expecting the information and analyses collected by the Marfle system to be beneficial in many ways", said Tidal Transit Commercial Director, Leo Hambro. "The web based reports will undoubtedly be useful to our skippers, crews and vessel maintenance teams, and I am expecting our clients' marine management teams to be very interested in the cost and efficiency analyses.

"Eden Rose and Tia Elizabeth are from different generations of our vessel lineage, so we are particularly interested to monitor the effects of the on-going development of specific technologies on vessel performance."

He concluded, saying: "There is an international demand to reduce the cost of producing energy from renewable sources, as was clearly shown by the strike prices awarded in the latest UK CfD auction round. When an offshore wind farm moves into its long term operations phase, vessel charters are one of the significant operational costs. I expect the Marfle system to provide data that is of use to our clients in managing vessel utilisation."

Tia Elizabeth is currently on long term charter at the Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm off the coast of Wales and Eden Rose is working for Siemens at the Westermost Rough project.

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