Recently, ROC has achieved another important breakthrough in expanding into the international offshore engineering market, successfully signing a construction contract with a South American shipowner for an anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS). This marks a further expansion of the company’s overseas layout and signifies that its comprehensive competitiveness in the offshore support vessel (OSV) sector has gained broader recognition in the international market.
The AHTS vessel under this contract has an overall length of 71.95 meters and a molded breadth of 17.20 meters. It features a bollard pull of 110 tonnes and is equipped with a 300-tonne stern roller, shark jaws, and tow pins, capable of meeting deepwater anchor handling and towing operational requirements. The vessel adopts advanced diesel-electric propulsion, offering excellent maneuverability while complying with Tier II emission requirements.
As a versatile all-rounder, the vessel is classed by ABS and features chemical supply capability, FiFi-2 (second-level firefighting), oil spill recovery (OSR-C1), and DP2 dynamic positioning capability. It can undertake material transport and supply, handle offshore fire emergencies, and perform oil spill recovery and emergency rescue operations, making it a “super nanny” at sea that covers multi-scenario requirements.
This cooperation fully demonstrates the shipowner’s trust in ROC’s R&D and design, construction quality, and delivery assurance capabilities, creating conditions for further participation in the South American offshore engineering equipment industry chain cooperation and for undertaking more high-value-added offshore engineering vessel orders.
Currently, ROC’s order delivery and market development are progressing steadily. The successive landing of high-quality overseas orders will further consolidate the company’s serialized and batch construction advantages, optimize the structure of its order backlog, and lay a foundation for deeply cultivating the high-end offshore engineering vessel market in the future and enhancing its global market competitiveness.