Alewijnse Marine continues its cooperation with Dutch shipyard Royal Niestern Sander with a contract for hydrographic research vessel Geo Ranger. The company is to supply the complete electric and automation outfitting.
This will include the design, building, installation and commissioning of the electrical installation from the 400 Volts on-board network, navigation console, lighting, fire alarm system and communications equipment to the network cabling for the survey equipment and the associated alarm, monitoring and control systems. The vessel will be built under the supervision of Lloyd’s Register with completion scheduled for in April 2020.
This contract follows a similar one the maritime systems supplier performed for Niestern Sander for recently completed utility vessel PW 18. This was the first fully electrically powered utility vessel to be built in the Netherlands.
Geo Ranger
The 41-metre Geo Ranger has been designed by the yard in cooperation with Conoship International BV for Geo Plus BV. Once operational, it will be available for charter by parties conducting hydrographic surveys, such as companies involved in dredging and the building and maintenance of offshore wind farms. The vessel will be fitted out with diesel-electric propulsion, LED lightning and heat recovery from the cooling water of the diesel generators. It will also not have an emergency diesel generator on board. Emergency power will instead be supplied by batteries.
