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PSG Marine & Logistics Ltd and Sarens have joined forces to form a Joint Venture with the goal to deliver market leading services to the offshore wind and renewables sector across Scotland.

The JV will offer heavy lift and transport solutions, load in/out, assembly and port marshalling services to clients who require support to successfully and safely complete their projects in the renewable energies.

Carl Sarens, Director Technical Solutions commented: “We are looking forward to make this JV a success in the fast growing offshore market. where the combination of our heavy lifting and heavy transport expertise, together with PSG’s marshalling capacity and access to deep water quaysides, will bring an added value to the market.”

Sarens PSG’s Managing Director Steve Clark remarked: “We are extremely pleased to form this joint venture with the reference player in global heavy lift and transport. Having access to Sarens market leading heavy crane & SPMT fleet, engineering capability and the Sarens giant ring crane fleet, will enable Sarens PSG to provide clients with the most comprehensive offering of heavy lift, transport, assembly, load in / out and port marshalling services currently available in Scotland. The world class facilities at Invergordon and the Cromarty Firth are ideally located for the Scottish offshore Wind sector project execution. However, the JV is looking for opportunities at all the Marshalling facilities around Scotland. Sarens PSG has been specifically incorporated to support the rapidly developing offshore wind market and assist in solving some of the current issues around heavy lift capacity, deployment and WTG integration, as the Scottish market scales up to floating wind commercialisation and the Scotwind project build-out”

Port of Cromarty Firth CEO Bob Buskie commented “ This Joint Venture will deliver an extensive heavy lift design and implementation capability together with a broad range of transport and logistics support services to customers in the fixed and floating offshore wind market who plan to use the Port of Cromarty Firth as their manufacturing, marshalling, storage, and integration hub.  This new capability will broaden and strengthen the supply chain capability across the whole of the Port of Cromarty Firth and will support our customers commercial contracting frameworks extremely well”

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About Sarens 

Sarens is the global leader and reference in crane rental services, heavy lifting, and engineered transport. With state of the art equipment, value engineering, one of the world’s largest inventories of cranes, transporters, and specialty rigging equipment, Sarens offers creative and intelligent solutions to today’s heavy lifting and engineered transport challenges. With more than 100 entities in 65 countries operating without borders, Sarens is ideal partner for small-scale to mega scale projects. Sarens currently employs 4452 highly skilled professionals who are prepared to support clients’ requirements around the globe and across every market sector.

About PSG Marine & Logistics Ltd

PSG Marine & Logistics Ltd, based at the world class deep water facilities at Port of Cromarty Firth, are the leading providers of support services to a diverse range of energy industry customers. PSG has an impressive track record of delivering complex logistical, marine, heavy lift and transport, port marshalling and assembly projects to the fast growing offshore wind sector.

The leading provider of logistical and marine support solutions joins the dynamic partnership of private, public and academic sector organisations including the Port of Cromarty Firth, Global Energy Group, Port of Inverness, The University of the Highlands and Islands, and The Highland Council on the Opportunity Cromarty Firth steering group.

Their ambition is to establish the Cromarty Firth as one of the up to ten freeports planned by the UK Government, following the Scottish Government’s backing of the freeport initiative and providing Scottish ports the opportunity to achieve ‘green port’ status, focusing on fair work, sustainable and net zero priorities.

If successful it is anticipated that a Cromarty Firth freeport would attract considerable inward investment into the Highlands, providing high quality, skilled jobs and business opportunities for the next 50 years.

PSG Marine & Logistics, based at the deep water facilities of the Port of Cromarty Firth, are key providers of logistical and marine support solutions in the offshore energy sector and for projects being undertaken in the Cromarty Firth. Boasting extensive experience and expertise, PSG Marine & Logistics has been heavily involved in a number of recent high-profile contracts, having delivered major port marshalling scopes for the Moray East Offshore Windfarm, as well as project support to Kincardine Floating Offshore Windfarm.

Steve Clark, Managing Director at PSG Marine & Logistics said: “The Cromarty Firth is uniquely positioned to offer the perfect location as a freeport, bringing with it the opportunity to maximise job creation and levels of economic growth across the Highlands and Scotland that has not been seen since oil boom in the 70’s.

“Opportunity Cromarty Firth already has the support of the area’s leading organisations, and PSG Marine & Logistics are delighted to join the steering group as we bid to make this dream a reality.”

Bob Buskie, Chief Executive of Port of Cromarty Firth – speaking on behalf of Opportunity Cromarty Firth – said: “We are delighted that PSG Marine & Logistics has chosen to join the Opportunity Cromarty Firth steering group and we welcome them onboard as we continue to push for the Cromarty Firth’s freeport bid.

“Their arrival is welcome, as we continue to work alongside our partners from industry, academia and the public sector to ensure our prosperous ambitions for the region and Scotland are realised with the formation of a freeport.

“The Cromarty Firth has an incredible opportunity on its doorstep, with the proposed acceleration in offshore wind deployment. Our ambitions include an advanced manufacturing plant, a serial production facility for floating offshore wind structures and the creation of a hydrogen hub in the area. These opportunities combined would be transformational for the whole of Scotland and would create sustainable jobs and business opportunities. Through our collective assets and resources, we will work to ensure the benefits of implementing a freeport in our region are realised.”

The project’s scope includes the heavy lift and transport of over 2000 Te of anchor chain, 180 clump weights and 15 drag anchors. As with all technically demanding projects of this nature, PSG’s engineering team are working to deliver all heavy lift and transport services with the utmost adherence to client specification and safety procedures.

Steve Clark, MD of PSG Marine & Logistics stated:

Learn more about PSG’s unique capabilities and added value services offered from the Port of Cromarty Firth. Contact PSG Marine & Logistics.

PSG Marine & Logistics, a leading marine and logistical support services provider based in Invergordon, has recently secured an offshore windfarm staging contract from Dutch dredging and offshore contractor company Boskalis.

Work has begun on the Port of Cromarty Firth, where PSG is undertaking the onshore handling and loadout of mooring equipment destined for the Kincardine Offshore Floating Wind Farm project off the coast of Aberdeen.

PSG Marine & Logistics are experienced in the supply of logistical support services, port agency and marine logistics solutions to vessels engaged in a wide variety of oil & gas, renewable and decommissioning activities. From its deepwater support facility in Invergordon, the firm specialises in planning, engineering and executing complex heavy lift and transport projects for a diverse range of industries.

Semi-submersible wind turbines at the Kincardine Offshore Floating Wind Farm

The project’s scope includes the heavy lift and transport of over 2000 Te of anchor chain, 180 clump weights and 15 drag anchors. As with all technically demanding projects of this nature, PSG’s engineering team are working to deliver all heavy lift and transport services with the utmost adherence to client specification and safety procedures.

Steve Clark, MD of PSG Marine & Logistics stated:

PSG has invested heavily in technologically advanced solutions, personnel and facilities, ensuring that all heavy lift and transport services provided remain scaleable and compliant with the increasing demands of the offshore and renewables sectors.

A full range of state-of-the-art quayside support, heavy lift and transportation equipment are being utilised as part of the offshore wind port marshalling project, including heavy lift cranes with up to 500Te capacity. A skilled team of support personnel specialising in heavy transport, lifting and engineering will facilitate the project.

Multi-purpose offshore construction vessel “Boka Falcon” will then transport the loaded equipment to the site of the Kincardine Wind Farm Project.

The Kincardine Offshore Wind Farm project is being developed approximately 15km from the coastline of Aberdeen, and will be comprised of one 2MW MHI Vestas turbine as well as five 9.5 MW MHI Vestas turbines, each installed on triangular semi-submersible foundations. Once completed, Kincardine Offshore Wind Farm will be the world’s largest floating wind farm project with a nominal capacity of 50MW. This project will be the first in the world to use floating wind turbines of over 9MW capacity.

The project is currently on track to be completed and fully operational by the end of 2020, at which point it will generate up to 218GWh of green energy per year, enough to supply power to around 55,000 households.

Boskalis, which conducts major marine projects in over 90 countries, is supporting the installation of the first semi-submersible floating turbines in the North Sea.

Previously the Dutch firm has supported turbine installation at the Aberdeen Offshore Wind Farm, where major innovations in suction bucket foundation installation technology were implemented for the first time.

The floating wind farm market is set to continue to grow for many years, aided in part by the versatility of the technology and the ability to deploy installations at shallower water depths.

Offshore wind is set to kick off a major renewables surge within Scottish waters

As the renewables industry continues to pursue the best wind resources, the opportunities for growth within Scotland’s offshore services and support sectors continue to expand. PSG Marine & Logistics are already exploring upcoming prospects within emerging energy projects, including the upcoming ScotWind Leasing Round.

The ScotWind Leasing projects form part of a major development and investment drive in offshore wind farms within Scottish waters and have been hailed as a major step towards delivering Scotland’s energy targets, with 50% of Scotland’s energy consumption to be supplied by renewable sources by 2030.

Steve Clark, MD is focusing on putting PSG Marine & Logistics at the leading edge of this new renewables surge;

Up and coming wind farm projects in Scottish waters are set to create over 3,000 green energy jobs, and represent multi-billion pound investments to benefit communities across the whole of Scotland.

PSG is continuing to work as key members of the supply chain supporting the offshore energy markets in the Cromarty Firth and beyond, driving value through superior investment, experience and resources. The firm continues to develop and expand service provision at the Invergordon deepwater facility, serving the offshore wind, renewable energy and oil & gas sectors with high-level quayside support, vessel mobilisation, marine logistics, port agency, heavy lift and transport services.

Learn more about PSG’s unique capabilities and added value services offered from the Port of Cromarty Firth. Contact PSG Marine & Logistics.

PSG’s Multicat Port Servicer has been busy on charter supporting Deme Offshore with the demobilisation works of MOWF pile installation vessel Apollo, at Port of Cromarty Firth.

PSG has also been providing Deme with onshore quayside logistics and heavy lift and transport support as the pile installation projects comes to an end.

The major port marshalling contract, awarded to PSG by Deme Offshore for the handling of 159 pin piles weighing up to 180te and included the provision of heavy lift crawler cranes, SPMT’s, and all associated heavy lift and transport personnel. PSG were supported by its engineering partners Techlift International who provided detailed engineering & project management services. The project was executed from the new phase 3 development at Port of Cromarty Firth.

The recently acquired vessel was supporting Deme’s installation vessel Apollo while mobilisation works were under taken at anchorage at port of Cromarty Firth. She provided a wide range of services including harbour towage, crew change and cargo delivery support. PSG’s Managing Director Steve Clark commented ” Since the acquisition of Port Servicer, utilisation has been extremely encouraging. She has been extensively utilised on a wide range of projects including rig upgrade, civil construction and offshore wind support contracts.

PSG has also recently completed the successful first load in and load out of equipment destined for Moray East Offshore Windfarm Project.

Mr Clark added. ‘ We have handled the first 2 shipments of jacket prepiles and other related equipment weighting upto 240te from Port of the Cromarty Firth as part of our dedicated port marshalling contract, awarded to us by Deme Offshore.

The visibility of future workload that these type of projects offers, allows companies like ours to invest for the the long term in equipment and our workforce, providing many local secure employment opportunities. Our investment , particularly in our heavy lift & transport operation, and marine support division has been significant over the the past year, our aim is to ensure there is a fully equipped, locally based logistical and marine contractor able to deliver the range of support services required by these ground breaking renewable energy projects.