GulfMark gets AHTS newbuilding

GulfMark Offshore, Inc. in Houston, Texas, has received delivery of the newbuilding Sea Sovereign built by Jaya Shipbuilding and Engineering PTE LTD at their Batam, Indonesia yard near Singapore.

The newbuilding is a 70 metre, 5,500 BHP, 70 tonne bollard pull, dynamic positioning 2 (DP-2) anchor handling towing supply (AHTS) vessel. The purchase price for this vessel was approximately $14.5 million.

GulfMark also exercised its first right of refusal granted under the Sovereign purchase contract for an additional AHTS vessel currently under construction in the same yard. That vessel, designated hull 861B, is a 70 metre, 7,954 BHP, approximately 100 tonne bollard pull, DP-2 AHTS vessel. The purchase price for hull 861B is less than $20 million. GulfMark has been granted a first right of refusal on a further vessel from the same yard.