Sarens and PSG Marine & Logistics forge offshore wind alliance
By:
Tom Russell
31/05/2022
Sarens
PSG Marine & Logistics
Ltd and Sarens have joined forces to form a joint venture (JV) offering
services to the offshore wind and renewables sector across Scotland.
The JV will offer heavy
lift and transport solutions, load in/out, assembly and port marshalling
services to clients who require support.
Sarens has a large inventory of cranes, transporters, and specialty rigging
equipment to support heavy lifting and engineered transport porjects.
Carl Sarens, Director Technical Solutions commented: “We are looking
forward to make this JV a success in the fast growing offshore market,
where the combination of our heavy lifting and heavy transport expertise,
together with PSG’s marshalling capacity and access to deep water quaysides,
will bring an added value to the market.”
PSG Marine & Logistics
Ltd, based at Port of Cromarty Firth, provide support services to a range
of energy industry customers. PSG has previously provide dlogistical, marine,
heavy lift and transport, port marshalling, and assembly support to projects
in the offshore wind sector.
Sarens PSG’s Managing Director Steve Clark remarked: “We are extremely
pleased to form this joint venture with the reference player in global
heavy lift and transport. Having access to Sarens market leading heavy
crane & SPMT fleet, engineering capability and the Sarens giant ring
crane fleet, will enable Sarens PSG to provide clients with the most comprehensive
offering of heavy lift, transport, assembly, load in / out and port marshalling
services currently available in Scotland. The world class facilities at
Invergordon and the Cromarty Firth are ideally located for the Scottish
offshore Wind sector project execution. However, the JV is looking for
opportunities at all the Marshalling facilities around Scotland. Sarens
PSG has been specifically incorporated to support the rapidly developing
offshore wind market and assist in solving some of the current issues around
heavy lift capacity, deployment and WTG integration, as the Scottish market
scales up to floating wind commercialisation and the Scotwind project build-out”
Port of Cromarty Firth CEO Bob Buskie commented: “This joint venture
will deliver an extensive heavy lift design and implementation capability
together with a broad range of transport and logistics support services
to customers in the fixed and floating offshore wind market who plan to
use the Port of Cromarty Firth as their manufacturing, marshalling, storage,
and integration hub. This new capability will broaden and strengthen
the supply chain capability across the whole of the Port of Cromarty Firth
and will support our customers’ commercial contracting frameworks extremely
well.”
