Ocean Ness is sold
Ocean Ness is sold and is delivered to new owners, outside the offshore industry.
Ocean Pride is sold
Ocean Pride is now sold out of offshore and delivered to her new owner, Aqua Ship in Kristiansund.
Ocean Troll for green recycling
Ocean Troll is, after having served well as emergency vessel on both the Norwegian and English sectors for years, now being scrapped.
We have chosen a facility as locally as possible. Ocean Troll will be dismantled at Nordscrap West AS, just across the fjord from our Norwegian office, in accordance with all applicable regulations.
Ocean Clever is sold
Ocean Clever is now sold out of the North Sea, and delivered to new owners.
Annual report 2019
Atlantic Offshore is pleased to release the 2019 annual report.
While 2019 ended positive, we predict 2020 to be a more challenging year, due to both the oil price collapse and the outbreak of Covid-19.
NMA guidelines for crew signing on/off ships in Norwegian ports
Guidelines for crew joining or leaving the vessels in Norwegian ports
The Norwegian Government has has taken drastic action to prevent the coronavirus from spreading. These actions affect shipping to a great extent. Ships must be able to sail in order to ensure export and import of necessary goods and medicines. An important precondition to make the ships able to sail is that crew changes are carried out while the infection control measures are being observed. In the event of an infection on board or crew members working hours beyond provisions on regular working hours and rest, the ship may have to remain stationary and crew members may be dismissed.
There are new additions to the general travel restrictions on work journeys to maintain infrastructural operations.
- Work journeys maintaining a fundamental need for transport in society, e.g. shipping and other cargo transport may be carried out as smoothly as possible.
- Work journeys to maintain the production of oil and gas on the Norwegian continental shelf may be carried out as smoothly as possible.
- Port calls for ships carrying goods and supplies must be ensured.
Crew on board must be particularly vigilant with regard to infection control measures, especially by focusing on good hygiene routines.
Crew members signing off in Norway
- Crew members and other persons on board who have not had any contact with persons outside the ship, who are signing off in Norway after at least 14 days on board and who do not have any symptoms, may be regarded as not infected and do not need to be put in quarantine.
- Agents/companies shall in other cases, pending a return, make sure that local quarantine locations are established for crew not residing in Norway.
- When transport has been confirmed and it is time to return, the company will use established routines to get the relevant crew out of Norway.
Crew signing on in Norway
In order to keep ships sailing, there must be good routines to get the crew into Norway and on board the vessels.
The company must plan well and carry out good risk assessments to get the crew on board without being infected.
Updated info re. coronavirus at NMA: www.sdir.no/en/news/korona/