Future flotel charts UK passage
The former icebreaker Ice Maiden I is on its way from Pascagoula, Mississippi,
to UK player A&P Tyne's Newcastle-upon-Tyne yard for conversion into a DP3
flotel.
Netherlands-based Fairstar Heavy Transport’s heavylift cargo vessel Fairstar
Fjord picked up the vessel on 4 May and is en route to the UK.
A&P Tyne won a multi-million dollar job from C&M Group to convert the
Ice Maiden. The work includes fitting about 1400 tonnes of new accommodation
block steel work, some of which was collected in Mobile, Alabama, as the
Fairstar Fjord started its voyage.
The finished vessel will be fully ice-classed, can accommodate 399 people and
be capable of operating anywhere in the world in temperatures of -40C.
The Fairstar Fjord is expected to arrive in the UK at the end of this month.
06 May 2008 15:59 GMT
| last updated:
06 May 2008 17:15 GMT
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