NKT Victoria, a high-voltage cable laying vessel has been awarded the Ship of the Year title today at Nor-Shipping 2017 trade fair underway in Oslo, Norway.
The annual award goes to a Norwegian-built vessel that represents innovation and technological advances. The goal is to acknowledge innovation in ship development. This year’s second contender was the Windea Leibniz, a Service Operation Vessel (SOV) for the offshore wind industry.
Supplier to Ship of the Year
Palfinger Marine supplies a comprehensive package of winches, cranes and lifesaving equipment to the NKT Victoria
Bjørn Sturle Hillestad, Vice President Sales & Marketing says: ‘Palfinger Marine warmly congratulates ship owner NKT along with the vessel’s building yard and design company with winning Ship of the year 2017. We are proud to be one of the suppliers to NKT Victoria, contributing to increase the vessel’s safety and operational efficiency with a comprehensive deck equipment package.’
The company has a strong track record of supplying the Ship of the Year and have equipped three award winners in past four years, in addition to several runners-up.
The supplied the NKT Victoria with a winch package that included anchor and mooring winches, six-point mooring system winches, A&R winches and various pulling winches; all electrically driven; two foldable knuckle boom cranes, two totally enclosed lifeboats with accompanying davits, as well as a rescue boat davit.
