UK-based Briggs Marine and Environmental Services has been awarded a contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to supply and maintain authority moorings, markers, and targets over the next eight years with a forecast revenue of £182 million (US$245 million).
Briggs Marine will deliver a scheduled maintenance requirement alongside an extensive replacement programme that will modernise and standardise the MOD's heavy moorings and aids to navigation over the contract term. The company said the service would be vital to naval operations throughout the UK and overseas.
Briggs Marine's recently delivered maintenance support vessel Forth Constructor is one of the vessels planned to be utilised in the delivery of the contract.
With a DP2 system and diesel-electric propulsion, the vessel will primarily be used for inspection, maintenance and replacement of aids to navigation and heavy inshore moorings, both in the UK and overseas.
Briggs Marine said it will update and modernise all aspects of the service delivery, to improve the quality of data that it is able to use collaboratively with the MOD.