OSJs ship of the year 2008

‘Island Constructor’ has won Offshore Support Journal’s prestigious 2008 ‘Ship of the Year’ award. The jury said: “Island Constructor was chosen as OSJ?s ?Ship of the Year? 2008 as a result of the vessel?s particularly versatile and innovative design.

The X-Bow Island Constructor is a very impressive vessel in many ways, with many innovations and important ?firsts’. Island Constructor has Comfort (C3)(V3) class, and when OSJ was on board for part of the sea trials programme, it found the vessel to be very quiet, even though more staircase doors were open than usual. In flat water it was difficult to know from noise and vibration levels if the ship was moving at all, or at what speed.

Island Constructor is also noteworthy for being the first ship with the new IP-based ULSTEIN COM communications system from Ulstein Elektro, and is the first vessel equipped to the new Ulstein Accommodation Standard, the intention of which is to create more modern accommodation on board, of a type that meets the expectations of a new generation of seafarers.”

Ulstein also won this prestigious award from OSJ in 2006. for the anchor handler Bourbon Orca, the first vessel delivered with the characteristic ULSTEIN X-BOW