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Amplemann achieves 6 years of safe transfers

By: Lewis Holdsworth 07/01/2015 Amplemann

General Vessels

Ampelmann, the global leader in specialised gangway systems, is celebrating another significant achievement in the operation of their systems: one million safe transfers. The milestone was reached within 6 years after the start of Ampelmann Operations B.V. and reasserts their slogan: making offshore access as easy as crossing the street.

The first transfer with an Ampelmann system was completed in 2007 in a wind farm near Egmond aan Zee,
North Sea, by the founders of the company. Since then, Ampelmann has developed from being
a spin-off of the Delft University of Technology into a multi-national organization with over 300
employees. With its Head Office in Delft and offices since opened in Singapore, Qatar and Houston,
the company continues to expand. With over 40 systems worldwide and an average technical uptime
of 99.5%, Ampelmann expanded into further new regions during 2014 with projects in Miri, The
Caspian Sea, Egypt and Nigeria; meaning that Ampelmann officially covers the seven seas.

On the innovations side of the business; Ampelmann launched the Cargo Transfer System (CTS), with
the first full-motion-compensated lift in seas above 2m Hs; developed a new enlarged gangway GXXL
and did further innovative projects such as reinstallation of lifeboats offshore.

The core technology is the Ampelmann system, a motion compensation platform that allows safe,
easy and efficient personnel and cargo access from a moving vessel to an offshore installation, even
in high sea states. Ampelmann continues to improve manpower productivity and safety on both
manned and unmanned installations. The increased use of the Ampelmann systems is changing the
way companies perform maintenance offshore.

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