To Safegaurd their high cost investments owners are looking to charter out their ships for the medium or long term periods including those standard ships which could find employment on the spot market. In this context contractors and oil companies are also trying to avoid the peaks and troughs of the market by hiring ships for long periods and utilising these units according to regional need. The utilization rate was close to 95 percent throughout 2007. Owners seem to be favouring a significant increase in the engine capacity of new units. In order to replace the hundreds of ships which will be thirty years old by 2010. In this sector few ownders have launched renewal programmes for their fleet. with the notable exception of Bourbon which in 2007 ordered a total of 54 AHTS GPA from the Sino Pacific shipyard. The other trend concerns the big tonnage ships PSV's over 4500 dwt and AHTS with bollard pull in excess of 200 tons.
The above information was taken from The offshore ans specialised ships market report for 2007...
I believe since Deep Sea Supply has all newer PSV/AHTS we are in a good position regarding the future of our charter book because we have all new tugs. What do you think of that as an accurate Xanadu? Is that right on the money...?
To Safegaurd their high cost investments owners are looking to charter out their ships for the medium or long term periods including those standard ships which could find employment on the spot market. In this context contractors and oil companies are also trying to avoid the peaks and troughs of the market by hiring ships for long periods and utilising these units according to regional need. The utilization rate was close to 95 percent throughout 2007. Owners seem to be favouring a significant increase in the engine capacity of new units. In order to replace the hundreds of ships which will be thirty years old by 2010. In this sector few ownders have launched renewal programmes for their fleet. with the notable exception of Bourbon which in 2007 ordered a total of 54 AHTS GPA from the Sino Pacific shipyard. The other trend concerns the big tonnage ships PSV's over 4500 dwt and AHTS with bollard pull in excess of 200 tons.
The above information was taken from The offshore ans specialised ships market report for 2007...
I believe since Deep Sea Supply has all newer PSV/AHTS we are in a good position regarding the future of our charter book because we have all new tugs. What do you think of that as an accurate Xanadu? Is that right on the money...?
To Safegaurd their high cost investments owners are looking to charter out their ships for the medium or long term periods including those standard ships which could find employment on the spot market. In this context contractors and oil companies are also trying to avoid the peaks and troughs of the market by hiring ships for long periods and utilising these units according to regional need. The utilization rate was close to 95 percent throughout 2007. Owners seem to be favouring a significant increase in the engine capacity of new units. In order to replace the hundreds of ships which will be thirty years old by 2010. In this sector few ownders have launched renewal programmes for their fleet. with the notable exception of Bourbon which in 2007 ordered a total of 54 AHTS GPA from the Sino Pacific shipyard. The other trend concerns the big tonnage ships PSV's over 4500 dwt and AHTS with bollard pull in excess of 200 tons.
The above information was taken from The offshore ans specialised ships market report for 2007...
I believe since Deep Sea Supply has all newer PSV/AHTS we are in a good position regarding the future of our charter book because we have all new tugs. What do you think of that as an accurate Xanadu? Is that right on the money...?