Buss, Schramm Team Up

Hamburg logistics company Buss Port Logistics and the SCHRAMM group will henceforth cooperate in the supply service for offshore platforms.

Logistics and transport service ANTS Offshore, founded by Schramm group in January, will utilize the Orange Blue Terminal (OBT) in the Dutch city of Eemshaven as service port for the operation of the DP II supply ship. Buss is the operator of the OBT.

The ever increasing construction of offshore wind farms in the North Sea brings about an increasing demand for supply services for platforms and jack-up vessels alike. ANTS Offshore’s offshore shuttle service offers scheduled and unscheduled supply and removal services for offshore stations in the various wind clusters of the North Sea. In this arrangement, the OBT will be responsible for the receiving of goods and empty containers and – as needed – for intermediate storage, picking and packing, as well as for the loading onto the supply ship at the terminal. Returned goods and containers will also be discharged at the OBT and put into intermediate storage or returned, and the waste packages will be disposed, as needed.

Torsten Andritter-Witt, Managing Director-Projects at SCHRAMM group, said: “The OBT offers ideal prerequisites as port of call for our supply ship in Eemshaven. Deciding factors for our decision were the geographically favorable location in direct vicinity to the wind farms and also the expertise in the area of shoreside terminal logistics. The ANTS Offshore shuttle will however also call other North Sea service ports as per our customers’ requirements, in order to take on cargo, or return it there.”

Heinz Wasser, Managing Director of the Orange Blue Terminal, welcomes the new assignment for the offshore wind section: “In the relatively new event “Offshore”, we have been contestants from the get-go. The expertise and the know-how from numerous projects in the North Sea, in which we actively participated, were surely another deciding factor, why our terminal was chosen.”

The DP II that is being deployed, supply ship Jaguar, will be at the ready for the offshore market at the German, Dutch and Danish coasts 24/7, on a permanent basis and for various cargoes on deck and under deck, such as fuels, fresh and waste water, to name but a few. MV Jaguar’s cargo loading area totals 3,000 m², it can bunker 570 m³ of fuel and the tank capacity for fresh water is 400 m³.

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