Blue Offshore Rental Services (BORS)

Blue Offshore Rental Services (BORS) was contracted by Van Oord to provide a full transport spread for the Hollandse Kust (Zuid) Alpha export cable works, including mobilisation and operation of a certified double basket carousel barge solution to transport two main export cables and spare cables from Hellenic Cables (Greece) to Rotterdam. The scope included provision of the basket carousels, dedicated control systems, deck engineering, technical crew and complete mobilisation services. The barge CC Atlantique was used for the transport and was chartered by Van Oord, after which the main cables were spooled onto Van Oord’s cable installation vessel Nexus in Rotterdam, and spare cables were sent to storage in Eemshaven.